Re: A better Oracle backup scheme?

hello Mike,

4 questions :

• how long is long ?
• how big is your database ?
• how big is your export file ?
• how big large pool size ?

have you tried buffer= x
where x is something in Megabytes

regards

stefan kapitza

mrb_at_mda.ca (Mike Barnes) 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?
Received on Wed May 29 2002 - 02:36:58 CDT