Re: Hot Backups

lmcgilvi_at_ionet.net (Laurel McGilvery) wrote:
>We are currently backing up a 30 gig database to optical disk drives
>using a combination of hot and cold backups. Has anyone out there run
>hot backups backing up more than one tablespace at a time? I know the
>book recommends against it.
>Thanks.
>
>- Laurel
>
 Laurel...  

     We are currently performing hot backups and we do backup all the tablespaces at once (contrary to Oracle's recommendation). Of course, our current database is only about 2 gigabytes. We haven't experienced any problems with this method.  

                                                    judie