Re: Cold & Hot backup!

From: Thomas Kyte <tkyte_at_us.oracle.com>
Date: Sat, 21 Jul 2001 21:31:26 GMT
Message-ID: <9i5jep0be2@drn.newsguy.com>

In article <3b465115_3_at_news1.prserv.net>, <hartono_nugroho_at_attglobal.net says...
>
>Hi all,
>
>Is it possible to combine hot & cold backup together? I want to use hot
>backup but I think it will be nice if I do cold bakup as well once a month
>and delete all of the archive redo log and start again to conserve disk
>space.
>
>Thanks for your suggestion,
>Ari
>
>

I don't understand -- you need just as many archives with cold as hot...

Yes, you can mix and match them.

No, cold won't save any disk space.

You just need to be running in archivelog mode, you can use either a cold or hot backed up file during media recovery.

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Received on Sat Jul 21 2001 - 16:31:26 CDT