Re: Poor Backup Strategy???

From: John Giromini <giromini_at_47.61.0.8>
Date: 1996/01/11
Message-ID: <30F558F9.FED_at_47.61.0.8>#1/1


Glenn Burton wrote:
>
> 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?
>
> Thanks!
>
> _________________________________________
> Glenn Burton
> glenn.burton_at_cbis.com
> Cincinnati Bell Information Systems
> _________________________________________
Glenn,
The best thing to do is perform a recovery using the current backup scheme. I believe you will find it will not work. Received on Thu Jan 11 1996 - 00:00:00 CET

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