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Date: Wed, 19 Feb 2003 11:24:55 -0800
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From: "Boivin, Patrice J" <BoivinP@mar.dfo-mpo.gc.ca>
Subject: Veritas Agent for Oracle / incremental backups vs. hot backups
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My manager asked me to assess how much smaller our backups would be if we
were doing incremental backups of our database files, instead of the usual
hot backups.

We are running 8i on UNIX.

I know that the answer is "it depends" and "you can't really know 'till you
try", but we are just looking for a ballpark figure, perhaps in percentages.

Our databases are between OLTP and DSS, closer to DSS environment, this
being a scientific site.

Thanks.
Patrice Boivin
Systems Analyst (Oracle Certified DBA)

Systems Admin & Operations | Admin. et Exploit. des systèmes
Technology Services        | Services technologiques
Informatics Branch         | Direction de l'informatique 
Maritimes Region, DFO      | Région des Maritimes, MPO

E-Mail: boivinp@mar.dfo-mpo.gc.ca


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