Re: Exp/imp in archivelog mode question

Nothing is done about archived logs.. and imp will just create more. Archived logs are for other types of recovery (e.g. from a cold/hot backup, plus applying archived logs on top)

Archived logs are useless in exp/imp, unless you want to parse them with the tool that oracle provides (forgot the name).

-A

On Wed, 05 Jan 2005 17:46:10 -0200, Roberto <none_at_nowhere.com> wrote:

>One (probably) silly question:
>
>Consider I've made a full backup of a DB with the exp command.
>
>If something happens, and I need to recover with the imp command, what
>is done about the archive logs? Does the imp command delete (or
>overwrite) them? Are they left untouched? Does it automatically apply
>a recover database command to update the DB with those archive logs?
>
>Thank you,
>
>Marcos Roberto
>

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