Re: Popped over from c.d.informix

In <1993Sep28.205215.21545_at_gagme.chi.il.us> lily_at_gagme.chi.il.us (Lily Moy) writes:

>>2) please tell me that oracle 7.1 or 8.0 (whatever) will have a clean
>> online backup. no "fuzzy" stuff. the possibility of incremental
>> backups.
>>
>Oracle does provide clean backups. I have not heard of any
>problems with this. Incremental backups are possible today in Oracle7.

They are!?!?!

You mean it was there all the time and i missed it?! I think not.

Incremental exports, yes. Incremental backups? How?

>Online incremental backups are done without performance degradation,
>provided that you have done one full backup.

The only online backup i can find is a full backup.

graeme

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