Re: Best way to restore database back to previous point in time

From: Max Powers <patrick.gunia_at_googlemail.com>
Date: Thu, 20 Mar 2014 05:17:08 -0700 (PDT)
Message-ID: <70c507fe-f60e-4d8f-8be0-5d69ac13f3b5_at_googlegroups.com>


Am Donnerstag, 20. März 2014 13:03:27 UTC+1 schrieb Preston:
> patrick.gunia_at_googlemail.com wrote:
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> > Hi everybody,
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> > I have a question concerning the best way to restore a database to a
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> > previous point in time. My concrete intention is a little bit
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> > different from the usual backup-purpose. As I´m working on
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> > performance testing I´d like to have a fixed backup (or several
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> > backups) which all have a fixed state in time. I load such a state,
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> > run my benchmarks (which alter the database) and afterwards roll the
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> > database back to the state before I started my test. So when I
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> > restore my database I explicitely don´t want any recovery (because I
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> > don´t want the database to return to the current state).
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> What's the reason for not using flashback?
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> Preston.

As far as I read about flashback it´s mainly used for quite recent backups. Maybe I got that wrong. Is it possible to use flashback providing it with a concrete backuppiece? Or does it require "automatic" backup-functionality? Received on Thu Mar 20 2014 - 13:17:08 CET

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