Path: newssvr20.news.prodigy.com!newsmst01a.news.prodigy.com!prodigy.com!in.100proofnews.com!in.100proofnews.com!news-out.visi.com!petbe.visi.com!news.octanews.net!news1.optus.net.au!optus!newsfeeder.syd.optusnet.com.au!news.optusnet.com.au!not-for-mail Date: Wed, 05 May 2004 18:23:01 +1000 From: "Howard J. Rogers" User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.5 (Windows/20040207) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.databases.oracle.server Subject: Re: Object required for (Wscript.sleep 15000) References: <35a97e60.0405042314.39ee6380@posting.google.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Lines: 38 Message-ID: <4098a45b$0$441$afc38c87@news.optusnet.com.au> NNTP-Posting-Host: 203.164.4.221 X-Trace: 1083745372 441 203.164.4.221 Xref: newssvr20.news.prodigy.com comp.databases.oracle.server:260811 Holger Baer wrote: > benazir wrote: > [snip] > > Benazir, I'm sorry to say that, but your mail shows that you don't > understand the tools you are using and I fear that may include the > database. > > Please do yourself a favour and register at http://otn.oracle.com. > (Registration is free) You will find an overwhelming mass of documentation > including the Concepts Guide and several books targeted on backup > and recovery. Read and understand them (from cover to cover). > > The funny thing is, that many people will somehow get a backup > skript going they grabbed off some website; but the will constantly > fail to ever test if they actually can recover *without* loss of > data. From the header of the script he's talking about: "'The provision of any script, 'by any author, is not an invitation to disengage your brain." I did try. Also from the web page where you download it: "The days of performing operating-system command-based backups are (or should be) over. I would much prefer to recommend that you get to grips with the Oracle-supplied RMAN utility, since it does the job elegantly and with considerable performance and convenience gains to be had by users and administrators alike." I tried again. :-( HJR