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It depends on what you mean by 24 hours. There are several backup tools
on the market which uses snapshots or mirrors. They need only seconds to
a few minutes for doing a backup from the DB server point of view.
(But I do not want to say that cold backups are really necessary.)
Holger
Hemant K Chitale schrieb:
>
> 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 Thu Mar 21 2002 - 02:17:25 CST