"Howard J. Rogers" <howardjr2000_at_yahoo.com.au> wrote in message
news:e7410c46.0208170817.7f3b58d1_at_posting.google.com...
> You said you wouldn't risk the chance of corrupting a backup by using
> anything other than OCOPY, yet you are prepared to do precisely that
> by compressing things! I wouldn't compress an archive if my life
> depended on it.
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> >Why
> > should I use if 10g of space for backups when 1g will do?
>
> Because you (presumably) don't want to risk your data.
>
> Regards
> HJR
I disagree with your mistrust of compressing backup data. I've been using
compressed backups for nearly 20 years and never had a problem recovering
from one whether it be Oracle or something else. Are you aware that all
modern tape drives use data compression automatically? If I were to accept
your reasoning for not compressing backups I'd have to stop backing up to
tape.
--
Chuck "gzip" Hamilton
Received on Tue Aug 20 2002 - 06:03:49 CDT
