Mark,
Not to plug a particuler product when there could be many alike products available.
We have a registered version of Ghost by Norton, Symantic Corp. I believe that there
is a trial version available at their site. It is simple, and easy to run. I prefer to
run it from a boot disk without windows running. Saves on swap being activated and
copied.
ROR mª¿ªm
>>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 03/29/01 07:01AM >>>
Any suggestions for a particular product?
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Sent: Wednesday, March 28, 2001 06:16
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Mark,
I might suggest that you look into a "Ghost" product for making an image of
your PC. I "ghost" my pc and keep the image on the network where it is
backed up each night and stored on tape. If I have problems with my PC I
load the image to the second drive and I have access to all of the original
files.
My 2 bits.
ROR mª¿ªm
>>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 03/28/01 10:30AM >>>
Hi there :)
After a rather interesting start of my week, I have a question for you about
the backup of local PC test databases.
<Rant>
At the end of last week I deleted my current test database along with all
Oracle files, and went for a fresh install, due to having some rather
interesting ora-600's and a corrupted SYSTEM datafile! Now that was fun to
say the least I can tell you!
I then went on to try and install Oracle again from a copy of 8.1.6 for
Windows NT/2000, which was downloaded from technet, and burned on to a cd,
to save disk space.. I had originally installed 8.1.6 from this download,
but when I went to decompress the files from the zip, on the CD, I had
corruption on the CD!!
Now, I dreamed of corrupted datafiles, corrupted CD's, even corrupted
politicians over the weekend, and came in early this week to start
downloading 8.1.7 (The only bonus in this little story:) which is in fact a
download of 584mb. This is now STILL downloading right now at a rate of
4.5kbs, and is scheduled to finish in 17hours, and 37 minutes :<( What a joy
it is to have to download these extraordinarily huge files over a 56k modem.
Even ADSL isn't available here until September..
<\Rant>
The point? Well, I was wondering what you guys do out there to backup any
local PC test databases you may have? I have no tape to backup too, and no
real experience with backup or recovery situations. I have never backed up
Oracle either :)
The databases are all pretty static, as we just load up some data exported
from our Access tracking system. The database is pretty much used for QA of
our performance tools.
What files should I backup first of all?
There is no real need to have this database running in ARCHIVELOG MODE is
there?
Also, where would you reccomend backing up to? CD (aahhemmm!!), network
drives, seperate directory?
I'm really just trying to avoid the fun and games I've had this week, any
advice?
Thanks guys
Mark
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