Oracle7 hot backups / table availability

• Quoting Davide Gaetano to All dated 10-15-94 ***
  > I am planning to use oracle7 in a high availability environment.
  > I must be able to access the tables for update while they are
  > being backed up, and still have good backup. Is this a problem ?
  

This is not a problem, as long as it is done correctly. Performance may suffer, but that depends on the platform.

> Also, does anyone have any information of backup/recover times
> for a ~20Gig database ? The platform will be a UNIX server, the
> specific server hardware has not yet been selected.

You're kidding, right? I'm not sure it makes sense to have generic backup/recover times without a hardware platform... It would depend largely on your backup speed. Received on Sun Oct 16 1994 - 16:35:05 CET