Re: Another crazy hot backup theory in a book

From: <costello_at_iki.fi>
Date: 24 Sep 1998 16:38:12 +0300
Message-ID: <uhfxxljgb.fsf@nt_eng3.rautaruukki.fi>

"MotoX" <rat_at_tat.a-tat.com> quotes a book:
>"When you mark the beginning of the backup, Oracle will divert writes
>from those datafiles to the SGA until the backup has completed and you
>have marked the end of the backup. This is all that is necessary to
>perform the online tablespace backup."

Correct me if I'm wrong but it really is so that the only way to actually perform a backup of a running Oracle8 is to run it in ARCHIVELOG-mode and just copy the log files the DB generates? I kinda expected a nice button labeled "take backup now" or similar when 8 was released but it still seems to me that things must be done in the same way as in version 7.

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Antti Järvinen
costello_at_iki.fi
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