Re: HOT Backups - Online Backups

From: Dave Hau <davehau_nospam_123_at_nospam_netscape.net>
Date: Wed, 06 Aug 2003 23:06:28 GMT
Message-ID: <3F3189F2.9060102@nospam_netscape.net>

Sybrand Bakker wrote:
> On Wed, 06 Aug 2003 20:55:16 GMT, Dave Hau
> <davehau_nospam_123_at_nospam_netscape.net> wrote:
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>>The redo log files are backed up automatically by running the database 
>>in ARCHIVELOG mode.

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> Yes, but do you have plenty of diskspace to retain all your
> archivelogs between backups? Or do you have a sysadmin who finds lack
> of diskspace and just deletes them.? You aren't telling me you advise
> NOT to backup the archivelogs? You probably never had a crash!
> Your advice is utterly dangerous and irresponsible

I'm assuming the archive log location you've configured is on a filesystem that's backed up regularly. According to my understanding, this is how it's usually set up.

Cheers,
Dave

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> Sybrand Bakker, Senior Oracle DBA
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Received on Wed Aug 06 2003 - 18:06:28 CDT