Re: incremental backups

From: David Sisk <davesisk_at_ipass.net>
Date: Sun, 15 Aug 1999 19:34:56 -0400
Message-ID: <UZHt3.926$tp2.761@news.ipass.net>

Read the backup and recovery section of the administrators guide. You'll find your answers.

Regards,

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nwsread_at_cloudband.com wrote in message <37b6f542_at_glitch.nildram.co.uk>...
> Hi, i am wondering what facilities oracle has
>for incremental backups. This is backups only of what
>has changed since the previous backup so that it would
>happen very quickly. Instead of backing up the whole
>database which would take a long time.
> My reason for this question is that if we have bugs
>in our code where say we are updating the wrong rows, we could
>recover from much of our destruction by restoring from backups,
>and if incremental backups were possible they could be done more
>often then full backups.
>
> What would be optimal however is some type of table
>version control similiar to what cvs does with src files, where
>we could restore the table to any state depending on timestamp
>or user tag.
Received on Sun Aug 15 1999 - 18:34:56 CDT