Re: Choosing backup strategy on NT

I am using the Seagate Back Exec addon for Oracle on a Oracle 7.3 Database to do hot backups Saturday through Thursday and a cold backup on Friday night. The Oracle addon requires you create a user in the database for backups and grant privileges to that user for backing up. We are just in our prototyping phase, so there is not much real data being backed right now(cold - 180mb, hot - 4gig), but it is part of our overall network backup and it seems to work pretty good.

On Tue, 20 Oct 1998 20:05:54 GMT, dmcclory_at_msn.com wrote:

->I'm using Oracle 8.0.4 on NT, and I have a related question:
->
->Is it safe to backup one of the datafiles to tape while it is in
backup mode?
->The file still appears to be open, so our backup utility (Seagate
Backup Exec)
->whines about the open status. If I make a backup of the file, will
I be able
->to restore from it?
->
->Also, I'm trying to set up command scripts and the like to allow for
->unattended hot backups on our NT machine, and I'm finding it
frustrating. My
->primary difficulty is that I don't have enough drive space to make
full, on
->disk copies of my datafiles, so I have to back them up straight to
tape.
->This is forcing me to define a backup job for each tablespace.
Anybody have
->a better way?
->
->Finally, anybody out there using the new Seagate Backup Exec "Agent
for Oracle
->Server" software? Any opinions of it's value?
->
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Own Received on Tue Oct 20 1998 - 17:34:54 CDT