Re: Oracle archive mode and hot backups

From: John Hurley <johnbhurley_at_sbcglobal.net>
Date: Fri, 7 Aug 2009 07:05:30 -0700 (PDT)
Message-ID: <43ad0b37-4c1c-459b-bbfc-0290d8a4152a_at_f33g2000vbm.googlegroups.com>

On Aug 7, 9:11 am, "Preston" <dontwant..._at_nowhere.invalid> wrote:

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> You're just making wild assumptions, based on very limited information
> given by a 3rd party when summing up what someone else has said. You
> don't know if he's planning to delete *all* archive logs. You don't
> know if those logs are backed up elsewhere. You don't know if those
> logs are applied to cumulative nightly backups.

Yikes ... a burst of sunshine into an apparently very dark cave!

>
> Yes, it may be the DBA's clueless. Or it may be he's superb, & didn't
> want to go into all the details of explaining RMAN to a layman. The
> only way for the OP to find out is to ask more questions, based on the
> information he gets from places like cdos.

Bingo! Received on Fri Aug 07 2009 - 09:05:30 CDT