Re: Backup strategy

From: Tim Boemker <tim_boemker_at_zacatecas.optimum.com>
Date: 1995/06/05
Message-ID: <3qvebd$9bu_at_jalisco.optimum.net>#1/1


In article <3qnqeu$q51_at_nn.fast.net>
mreagan_at_fast.net (mreagan) writes:

> If you cut three 10 meg archive logs a day, you could get away
> with a cold backup once a week, and archiving the logs each night.

Is it strictly necessary ever to make cold backups? I have limited confidence in hot backups, so I make cold ones, too, but I thought the Oracle doc suggested that hot backups were not necessary in archivelog mode.

Tim Boemker
Optimum Group

(513) 577-7785 Received on Mon Jun 05 1995 - 00:00:00 CEST

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