DBA Question: What are all my backup options?

I am trying to find out all the options of backing up an Oracle datbase. I have the ORACLE DBA Handbook by Kevin Loney which explains export/import, cold, hot and incremental backups.

With running in archive log mode, we are generating a log of archived redo logs which are taking up a lot of space.

Ideally, I would like to be able to do some sort of incremental backup that only records DML statements to a specific set of tables. The application we are running is doing a lot of database updates to tables that the application needs but are not REAL data.

Are there any other methods for backing up my database? Maybe some third party software, or something? Any information would be appreciated.

Thanks in advance.

Mary Hunt Received on Tue Jul 11 1995 - 00:00:00 CEST