Re: Why hot backups?

From: Jeremiah Wilton <jeremiah_at_wolfenet.com>
Date: Fri, 04 Feb 2000 09:45:48 -0800
Message-ID: <389B104C.4F374D89@wolfenet.com>

Max La Menace wrote:
>
> 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?

Tablespace hot backups are not incremental. You can restore all the tablespaces and roll forward to a point in time.

Unless there was something wrong with the hot backup, you probably had a support analyst that lacked the necessary skills to do their job.

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Jeremiah Received on Fri Feb 04 2000 - 11:45:48 CST