Re: incremental backups

You can use the export utility to backup your tables. There is an incremental operation with the export utility.

Hope that helps,
Brian Peasland
peasland_at_edcmail.cr.usgs.gov

nwsread_at_cloudband.com wrote:

> 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 Wed Aug 18 1999 - 09:03:16 CDT