Re: newbie: archivelog mode

From: Kathinka Diehl <kathinka_at_rrr.de>
Date: Wed, 10 Nov 1999 07:32:21 +0100
Message-ID: <80b3r7$op5f$1@fu-berlin.de>

Verna Legaspi <verna.legaspi_at_attws.com> schrieb:

> We recently had a problem with a couple of disks filling up from all the
> archived redo logs. Is it fairly safe to delete the old, archived logs if
> we have a "cold" backup of the database?

If you make an offline backup, just backup your archive logs an delete them after from the disk.

> Should our databases be in
> archivelog mode if we do complete backups nightly?

If you make a backup at night and you have no archive log mode, it's possible, that you lose the work of a complete day.

HTH, Kathinka Received on Wed Nov 10 1999 - 00:32:21 CST