Re: exp and archive available.... recover table

On Jul 11, 5:41 pm, joel garry <joel-ga..._at_home.com> wrote:
> On Jul 11, 12:46 pm, "rogergor..._at_gmail.com" <rogergor..._at_gmail.com>
> wrote:
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> > You should ideally be able to restore only a single datafile if that's
> > what's missing using RMAN, it's much faster than a full restore if the
> > DB is multi-GB in size.
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> So how do you restore just a single table that is a small one of many
> in the datafile and hasn't had (or you want to get rid of the effects
> of) transactions since the export? While RMAN may be able to recover
> blocks and datafiles, in general the granularity is tablespace. So
> how many tables do you have, and how many of them are in their own
> tablespace? I tell ya, I do a lot of work where I'm just updating one
> or a few tables out of thousands, and being able to get those to a
> known state in a much larger database is one of my main uses for exp/
> imp these days. It's a backup and restore with table granularity (or
> smaller with the query option, used carefully). Not everyone is on
> 10g yet, flashback is just another feature.
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> The real important point is that a DBA know when to use what and why.
> Depending on export for general production backup is undeniably bad.
> Export and cold backups is obsolete, yet one can justify it at a
> stretch (I think Alexander is in that situation). Daniel is saying
> how to do it right, my disagreement is that it is more important to
> come up with a proper SLA than to overgeneralize to the point where
> you are saying RMAN is a backup to the exclusion of everything else.
> The R in RMAN stands for recovery, and that is not the purpose of
> every backup.
>
> jg
> --
> @home.com is bogus.
> Sometimes it's good to be the "do-nothing."http://www.signonsandiego.com/uniontrib/20070711/news_1b11prgn.html

Anyone who doesn't think about the viability of a periodic export for all their important databases as ( at least ) a complement to other parts of their database recovery strategy just isn't thinking correctly.

Joel is dead on here as he often is. Received on Wed Jul 11 2007 - 17:27:12 CDT