Re: Compressing ORACLE bakup?

In article <2uoc7d$qi7_at_hpbblb.bbn.hp.com>, petern_at_bbn.hp.com (Peter Niedermann) wrote:

> Hi,
> I heard that ORACLE doesn't recommend to compress softwarewise their
> database files during backup. Can anybody explain me why?
>
> regards
>
>
> Peter
>
>
Some unix backup-restore commands do not really create a file on restore, they only reserve space under certain conditions. This can cause severe fragmentation and/or data loss.

But i see no danger in compressing the files.

Regards,

Toni

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