Re: Using Shutdown Immediate

From: W. C. Epperson <epperson_at_pen.k12.va.us>
Date: 1995/08/23
Message-ID: <DDro9K.1Hs9_at_pen.k12.va.us>#1/1


Thomas J Kyte (tkyte_at_us.oracle.com ) writes: [snip]
> Last time-- Don't do a cold backup of shutdown immediate data. It needs
> recovery, it is not good enough to back it up. You will get burned someday if
> you do.
>

[snip]

I'm missing something in this thread. If you back up the data files and online log files and at least one control file, why isn't the backup good enough? Although it needs recovery, the backup media contains the recovery data, it appears.

Regards,
jay
epperson_at_pen.k12.va.us Received on Wed Aug 23 1995 - 00:00:00 CEST

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