Max La Menace wrote:
>
> I am new to this NG and apologize if the answer exists in deja.com. But
> if it does let me know and I'll go there.
>
> A consultant set up the Oracle Financials database I am managing.
> Tonight I did my first restore in production and, having never done a
> restore from a hot backup I called Oracle. They recommended that I
> restore from my last cold and rolled forward even though I take hot
> backups every night.
>
> Then why the heck am I waisting those expensive tapes on hot backups I
> am not going to use?
>
> Thanks!
There are two conditions under which hot backups are necessary:
- You must run 24x7
- You don't have a large enough window to shutdown
Oracle and do a cold backup.
If these conditions don't apply you are better off running
cold backups.
--
Jerry Gitomer
Once I learned how to spell DBA, I became one.
Received on Thu Feb 03 2000 - 23:53:07 CST
