Re: Can I still do a full database export in 8.1.7?

I'll quote from the Oracle Utilities docs:

"A complete Export establishes a base for incremental and cumulative Exports. It is equivalent to a full database Export, except that it also updates the tables that track incremental and cumulative Exports."

I think it's safe to say that getting rid of "full export" capabilities in a dot release would have been a suicidal move for Oracle. :) I really don't think you have anything to worry about here.

Also, if you look about 5-10 lines above where the readme says that Complete exports are gone, you will notice that they talk about a functionality change in the "full export" where triggers owned by SYS are no longer exported...

--Roby

"Joseph S. Testa" wrote:

> I dont have 8.1.7 yet, but i can't imagine it going away, its the only portable
> way to move data between OS.
>
> now the incremental, complete and cumulaive options are going away but export
> itself going away, highly unlikely anytime soon(at least not until you can plug
> and pray tablespaces between different OS) ;)
>
> joe
> Cherie_Machler_at_gelco.com wrote:
>
> > We are thinking of upgrading to 8.1.5, 8.1.6, or 8.1.7. I was looking
> > at the readme file for 8.1.7. I saw the following excerpt:
> >
> > Incremental, cumulative, and complete Exports are obsolete features.
> > They are no longer documented, nor is their use supported by Oracle
> > Corporation. For database backups, you should use the Oracle Backup
> > and Recovery Manager. See the Oracle8i Backup and Recovery
> > Guide for more information.
> >
> > We are currently doing full exports as part of our backup and recovery
> > scheme. We also use RMAN to do full on-line backups but rely on
> > full exports as a fallback or alternative method of data recovery.
> >
> > Is it true that full exports are not possible in 8.1.7? Can anyone confirm
> > that for me on their database. I'm talking about an entire database export.
> >
> > This is fairly critical for us.
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Cherie
> >
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