RE: Oracle 9i RMAN
- From: "Blanchard William" <William.Blanchard@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "Jared Still" <jkstill@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 26 Jun 2008 17:13:03 -0500
Well said.
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From: Jared Still [mailto:jkstill@xxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Thursday, June 26, 2008 5:05 PM
To: Blanchard William
Cc: Robert Freeman; oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: Oracle 9i RMAN
On Thu, Jun 26, 2008 at 2:10 PM, Blanchard William
<William.Blanchard@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Just the way they've always done it.
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Now there's a topic that has raged across the pages of this
forum a few times.
To be or not to be, should a database ever be backed up cold?
My vote is "almost never"
Prior to 10g, a resetlogs required a cold backup.
Well, not actually required, but if anyone did any work on the newly
opened database, and the database crashed before a backup was
completed, there was a very good chance of losing that work.
10g simplified recovering a database through a resetlogs ( I haven't
tried it)
but I would still do a cold backup on it.
Sometime "the way we've always done it" needs to be examined in the
light of "is this how we should still be doing it?" .
That reminds me of the story of the young lady that purchased a roast
from the meat department at the grocery store, and asked the butcher
to cut in half.
Why? Because that's how her mother had always done it.
When her mother learned of this she told her daughter that she had
always
asked for it to be cut in half because simplyu she didn't have a pan
large
enough to cook the whole thing.
"But that's the way we always did it" :)
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Jared Still
Certifiable Oracle DBA and Part Time Perl Evangelist
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