Re: Backup flashback logs to tape

From: Vladimir M. Zakharychev <vladimir.zakharychev_at_gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 02 Jul 2007 09:38:44 -0700
Message-ID: <1183394324.238901.263490@m36g2000hse.googlegroups.com>

On Jul 2, 6:20 pm, Ganesh <ganesh.tam..._at_gmail.com> wrote:
> I would like to know if there is any way I can backup my flashback
> logs to tape.
>
> I want to do this to provide additional level of backup and I have a
> business need where I need to preserve older copies of Flashback logs.
>
> According to all the documents I have referred, there is no RMAN
> command available that would do this for me.
>
> Kindly let me know if anyone has tried this sort of operation.
>
> Thanks & Regards,
> Ganesh

Can you elaborate a bit more on that business need to backup flashback logs? How are you going to use these backups? To me, the fact Oracle provides no tools do it means there's no need to do it, and I can't imagine a case where not having flashback logs backed up to tertiary storage would compromise recovery of a database.

Regards,

Vladimir M. Zakharychev
N-Networks, makers of Dynamic PSP(tm) http://www.dynamicpsp.com Received on Mon Jul 02 2007 - 11:38:44 CDT