"Howard J. Rogers" <dba_at_hjrdba.com> wrote in message news:<3c3d744b$0$1586$afc38c87_at_news.optusnet.com.au>...
> Without doubt, the current redo log is the
> Achilles' heel of the entire Oracle architecture -which is why they invented
> redo log mirroring (or, more accurately) multiplexing so that total loss of
> the current log should be a very rare occurrence -making attempted backups
> of it even more of a waste of time than they otherwise would be.
Only small off-topic remark. Just few days back I had here two
consultants from well known worldwide consulting company. They trying
to sell us some new system based on Oracle database. One of my many
comments to their design was absence of any backup strategy for this
extremely important server. They responded me in way, which almost
knock me out.
There is (they've said) no need for online, offline backup or running
in ARCHIVELOG, because when using Oracle you will always lose, in case
of failure, data from active redo log, so everything you need are only
daily !exports!. And that's 1TB database we're talking about. This
perfect logic made me speechless. :-)))
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Dusan Bolek, Ing.
Oracle team leader
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Received on Fri Jan 11 2002 - 03:40:50 CST
