Path: news.easynews.com!easynews!news.he.net!pushkin.conxion.com!newsfeed.netscape.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!sn-xit-01!sn-post-01!supernews.com!corp.supernews.com!not-for-mail From: Ron Reidy Newsgroups: comp.databases.oracle.server Subject: Re: Continu backup of database Date: Wed, 10 Oct 2001 10:20:24 -0600 Organization: Posted via Supernews, http://www.supernews.com Message-ID: <3BC47548.6A03A868@indra.com> X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.4.2-2 i686) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: newsabuse@supernews.com Lines: 22 Xref: easynews comp.databases.oracle.server:120835 X-Received-Date: Wed, 10 Oct 2001 09:21:05 MST (news.easynews.com) Johan Lorier wrote: > > Hello, > > one of our customers wants to have 'continu' backup, that is: when one > backup has completed, the next one should immediately be started. The > reason for this is that when a complete recovery from tape has to be > done, the data loss should be minimal. > Are there alternatives to achieve this? (Not too expensive ofcourse, > an identical mirror server is not an option). What are the pro's and > con's of this method (loss of performance, certain risks?). Oracle > 8.0.6, WinNT Server 4 SP5. > > Regards, > > Johan Read the backup/recovery docs from Oracle. This sounds goofy to say the least. -- Ron Reidy Oracle DBA Reidy Consulting, L.L.C.