Online backup alternatives

From: CT <c.traupe_at_dr-staedtler.de>
Date: Mon, 15 Nov 1999 17:14:28 +0100
Message-ID: <80r9j2$10a$1@news.ecrc.de>

Hallo,

I'm relatively new to administrating ORACLE serversm and hadn't had the privilege of attending a course. I had to implement an online backup, which in my case means the database must be running during backup. Because of being an development server (no important production data) it's sufficent to do a full database backup every night. I (maybe because of my rudimentary knowlegde not the best way, but it works; already a few months :-) ) choose the ORACLE export tool exp80. (RDBMS-Version 8.0.4)

But what should I do in case of administrating a production server with important data coming in all day. It can't be afforded to slow down the database by doing a full backup via exp80 every, say, 3 hours.

What would YOU experienced ORACLE administrators do then?

Bye and thanx, Carsten. Received on Mon Nov 15 1999 - 10:14:28 CST