Re: Newbie Backup Question - Compression

So long as the decompression doesn't end up with sparse files, Oracle won't have a problem with this. Maybe it's an application specific thing.

Pete

Ray Diaz wrote:

> A client of mine has just purchased a program that uses Oracle 8.x and I am
> using Veritas to do a cold backup. I was told by the application company
> the we can NOT compress the Oracle database files.
>
> Is this true? I can't understand what compression would have to do with
> files during a cold backup.

Received on Mon Oct 04 1999 - 12:18:33 CDT