Re: A better Oracle backup scheme?

"Mike Barnes" <mrb_at_mda.ca> wrote in message news:c72ed165.0205281333.4e6f63fc_at_posting.google.com...
> I am involved in writing the database portion of our application build
> and deployment procedures, and one of the things we have to do before
> deploying a new release is to do a database backup. Currently the
> integration team is just doing an export of all the objects under the
> relevant application user. It has been taking longer and longer as
> the size of the database grows, and they're wondering if it can be
> done faster with a method other than export. One thing that I've
> tried is direct mode export, and that seems to be faster, but is there
> anything else? For instance, would it be faster to do a backup using
> rman?

If you want to keep your job, please read the backup and recovery manual, and/or the Howard Rogers backup course. That course has been deleted from the web, but you can get from several people, including me.

Regards

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Sybrand Bakker
Senior Oracle DBA

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