RE: backup of large databases

[Hand, Michael T]

Ed, We have a 550Gb database which we backup nightly via a disk mirror set split.  The mirror set is then mounted on our failover/reporting hardward and written to tape.  Archived redo logs are written to tape twice daily and kept on disk for 3 days.   8063 on Compaq Tru64   Mike Hand Polaroid Corp -----Original Message----- From: Ed Lewis [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, October 26, 2001 2:51 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Subject: backup of large databases Hello,     I'm curious how people handle the backups for     large/very large databases; 200gb or greater.