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backup strategy and hardware requirements, as well as archivelog mode problem [message #71526] Tue, 19 November 2002 15:59 Go to next message
Angie
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Registered: April 2002
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Dear guru,

I'm investigating on backup Oracle8.1.7 database, including the hardware requirements, not very data-crucial database. Please correct me if I'm wrong:
1. full database backup once a week (could be any one of the following: cold backup, hotbackup or export), doing incremental backup everyday using export.
2. backups would be saved to a different disk, ideally, a different device from Oracle server, either a removable hard-drive or tape device.

Also my questions are:
1. what is commonly used device for backup? a removable hard-drive, tape device, or simply just another computer? what is the advantage of one over the other? Any suggestions on any brand or price range?
2. when I run my database in archivelog mode, and large data set is loaded, it dies half-way through, I have to shutdown the db and restart, but same problem comes up again (my db server is a pretty old machine, 1.47GB free space after Oracle installed, RAM 130,484KB, x86 Family 6 Model 3 stepping 4). I have to run in nonarchivelog mode to get data loaded successfully. Any ways that can help to keep db in archivelog mode? or I need a new box for server?

Any suggestions are appreciated.

Angie
Re: backup strategy and hardware requirements, as well as archivelog mode problem [message #71532 is a reply to message #71526] Wed, 20 November 2002 07:56 Go to previous message
imran hassan
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Registered: November 2002
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Hi there I was incharge of backups until recently and the strategy we employed was for non 24hr databases
i would recommend a cold backup to tape (DLT) devices not to expensive, this way if the computer blows up the tape is seperate and if the site blows up you cqan store tapes off site.
hope this helps
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