Re: Is it safe to rebuild an index during an RMAN full backup?

On Wed, 22 Oct 2008 13:22:42 -0700 (PDT), bfogarty_at_gaports.com wrote:

>My database is used most heavily between 06:00 and 20:00.
>An RMAN full backup runs nightly from 20:00 to 23:00.
>
>If I execute command "alter index <name> rebuild online;" during the
>backup will that cause a problem?
>
>Thank you,
>Bill

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7. Please specify whether the index tablespace is in nologging, the backup is to tape or disk, you are issuing a full or an incremental backup, and/or 10g block change tracking.

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