Re: BIG database backup methods

Just a thought: This HW-copying won't detect block corruptions. RMAN will. A problem can survive beyond repair with the syncing method.

Best regards,

Carel-Jan Engel
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On Tue, 2004-09-21 at 20:11, Kline.Michael wrote:

> We have the "luxury?" of being able to do shadow copies for many of our
> data warehouses. These are only in the 1-2 TB range, but with shadow
> copy, we start at perhaps 2AM with the syncing, and then around 4PM we
> stop the database, wait about 5 minutes, break the volumes and we're
> back up.
>
>

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