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Re: Duplicate online Database

From: Thomas Day <tday6_at_csc.com>
Date: Tue, 04 Mar 2003 11:05:34 -0800
Message-ID: <F001.0055FD17.20030304110534@fatcity.com>

Sorry, my mistake for speaking too freely. I would never use the cp command (or it's equivalent) to backup a database when the database was open.

                                                                                                                                       
                      "Chuck Hamilton"                                                                                                 
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Do you have any 24x7 databases? We do so we *must* back them up while open with either RMAN or in some cases with an older style hot backup.

> Personally I would never recommend backing up an open database and, if
that
> were to happen, I would consider that backup to be a 'scratch' tape.

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