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Re: Backing up 1 TB database

From: Connor McDonald <connor_mcdonald_at_yahoo.com>
Date: Fri, 05 Aug 2005 20:52:34 +0800
Message-ID: <42F36112.4E66@yahoo.com>


Marc Blum wrote:
>
> On 4 Aug 2005 23:22:07 -0700, "ORA600" <panandrao_at_gmail.com> wrote:
>
> >Use Data Guard. Serves two purposes.
> >
> >1) Backup of your data in near real time
> >2) Disaster Recovery
> >
> >cheers
> >ORA600
>
> The purpose of Data Guard is High Availability of your data. Data Guard is no
> substitution for a real backup. RMAN is the way to go. Occasionally in
> conjunction with RAC to parallelize/speed up backups an recoverys.
>
> --
> Marc Blum
> mailto:blumXXXSPAMXXX_at_marcblum.de
> http://www.marcblum.de

True but sourcing the backup from physical standby can be a very effective means of reducing the resource cost of backups from your production server and/or disk infrastructure

-- 
Connor McDonald
Co-author: "Mastering Oracle PL/SQL - Practical Solutions"
Co-author: "Oracle Insight - Tales of the OakTable"

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