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What can I say? Shoot the danged developer!
No, no, no, no, no. The backup is as much use as the proverbial **** on a bull. Period.
Pete
"Controlling developers is like herding cats."
Kevin Loney, Oracle DBA Handbook
"Oh no, it's not. It's much harder than that!"
Bruce Pihlamae, long-term Oracle DBA
-----Original Message-----
Chambers
Sent: Friday, March 14, 2003 7:44 AM
To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
All...
A developer working on a Solaris 2.6 server running Oracle 7.3.4 desires a nightly backup (by simply copying them to a backup directory) of the datafiles of an active instance. I explain that it will be a waste of tape because the files will be corrupt and useless. He counters, "As long as these files are there, irrespective of their state, oracle [sic] provides the tools to restore the skeleton database based on these files."
Will this be the case? I understand that there will [most likely] be some loss of data, but will Oracle "fix" itself to a point where it's useful again? TIA
Gary Chambers
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