Re: Backup strategy

From: Hemant K Chitale <hkchital_nospam_at_singnet_nospam.com.sg>
Date: Fri, 8 Mar 2002 23:40:26 +0800
Message-ID: <a6am0e$52$1@violet.singnet.com.sg>

Think of the sites that run 24x7. They cannot do cold backups. Ensure that your hot backups include backups of archived logs and online backups of controlfiles.

Hemant K Chitale

"Dale DeRemer" <dderemer_at_agmc.org> wrote in message news:a67sf5$4le$1_at_malgudi.oar.net...
> We are discussing how we will backup our Oracle 8.1.7 database. We are
going
> to be doing hot backups for the most part. I'm lobbying for a cold backup
> once a month. I find it confusing. Oracle recommends a cold backup, and
then
> says that hot backups should be ok? What do people with experience say?
> What's the trade off? What are the implications of not doing a cold
backup.
> Thanks for any information.
>
>
Received on Fri Mar 08 2002 - 09:40:26 CST