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Re: Backup flashback logs to tape

From: <zigzagdna_at_yahoo.com>
Date: Mon, 02 Jul 2007 17:57:13 -0700
Message-ID: <1183424233.614003.126150@n60g2000hse.googlegroups.com>


On Jul 2, 8:12 pm, joel garry <joel-ga..._at_home.com> wrote:
> On Jul 2, 7:20 am, Ganesh <ganesh.tam..._at_gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > I would like to know if there is any way I can backup my flashback
> > logs to tape.
>
> > I want to do this to provide additional level of backup and I have a
> > business need where I need to preserve older copies of Flashback logs.
>
> > According to all the documents I have referred, there is no RMAN
> > command available that would do this for me.
>
> > Kindly let me know if anyone has tried this sort of operation.
>
> > Thanks & Regards,
> > Ganesh
>
> I think what you and zigzag are missing here is that flashback is just
> a shortcut to recovery, at the expense of potentially a lot of disk
> space. If you just use RMAN commands to do the regular recovery to a
> point in time you get what you want. Right?
>
> jg
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It is a short cut but not robust. Received on Mon Jul 02 2007 - 19:57:13 CDT

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