Re: Poor Backup Strategy???

Glen,

The backups that your people are taking are TOTALLY WORTHLESS. The ORACLE datafiles must be copied when the db is down, or you can take a hot backup, but what you described is a waste of tape.

Regards,
Charles_Dye_at_corp.dialog.com

In article <4d1fo6$2ro_at_cbisgate.cbis.com>, gburton_at_cbis.com (Glenn Burton) writes:
> The system administrators of one of the systems I work with do not shut down
> the Oracle instance to take a cold backup. Instead they simply copy the
> datafiles during the night. The reasoning behind this is that "the system
> is quiet at that time of day, so there is really no reason shut down the
> instance".
>
> Assuming that there really is no user activity in the database, is this a
> sound backup strategy or should the instance be shut-down before copying
> the files?
Received on Thu Jan 11 1996 - 00:00:00 CET