Re: Exp/imp in archivelog mode question

From: Roberto <none_at_nowhere.com>
Date: Thu, 06 Jan 2005 10:10:21 -0200
Message-ID: <4jaqt059scqkfvjissbl0i2bblprj09na7@4ax.com>

On Wed, 05 Jan 2005 15:49:00 -0800, DA Morgan <damorgan_at_x.washington.edu> wrote:

>Roberto 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
>
>You don't have a backup and you can not perform recovery.
>Exports and imports do not constitute a backup and you will
>most likely find that what you have is toast: burnt toast.

Ok. This is more or less what I wanted to know.

Thanks Received on Thu Jan 06 2005 - 06:10:21 CST