If, after all the replies, you think it's desirable, why not simply
test it: with a small, non-operational instance. Make sure you
recover every which way and test as thoroughly as possible. I guess
make sure one datafile is fairly large. Also make sure you've had a
reasonable amount of deletes before backup/recovery - in fact, try to
create chaining and space problems for worst case scenarios.
Len
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>A client of mine has just purchased a program that uses Oracle 8.x and I am
>using Veritas to do a cold backup. I was told by the application company
>the we can NOT compress the Oracle database files.
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>Is this true? I can't understand what compression would have to do with
>files during a cold backup.
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Received on Sat Oct 09 1999 - 06:14:10 CDT
