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Never, ever, ever contemplate a hot backup of Oracle files without using
either an old fashioned backup script, RMAN or some third party backup
software that understands Oracle. If you do it will almost certainly not
work, but may in fact bring your database down.
I'd use OCOPY in my backup script but that may be just personal preference.
-- Niall Litchfield Oracle DBA Audit Commission UK ***************************************** Please include version and platform and SQL where applicable It makes life easier and increases the likelihood of a good answer ****************************************** "Chuck" <chuckh_at_softhome.net> wrote in message news:ai8nui$unb73$1_at_ID-85580.news.dfncis.de...Received on Wed Jul 31 2002 - 09:06:11 CDT
> Anyone ever used microsoft's compress utility for disk to disk hot backups
> on NT or Win2k? Is it safe to backup open files directly with this utility
> or do you need to use ocopy first, then compress that file?
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