Re: HOT Backups - Online Backups

Sybrand Bakker wrote:

> On Wed, 06 Aug 2003 20:55:16 GMT, Dave Hau
> <davehau_nospam_123_at_nospam_netscape.net> wrote:
>
> >The redo log files are backed up automatically by running the database
> >in ARCHIVELOG mode.
>
> 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
>
> Sybrand Bakker, Senior Oracle DBA
>
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You misread the statement. You never backup log files ... always back up archived log files. David's statement was correct.

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