RE: A way to restore a DB

2002-11-25 Thread Stephen Lee
>From the rest of you message, I would say there is something wrong with the hardware setup of your database. If the setup is such that you can lose an entire database of nearly 4 TB, then your backup/restore speed is the LEAST of your problems. You disk striping and mirroring should prevent the

RE: A way to restore a DB

2002-11-25 Thread Jack van Zanen
How about doing the inserts in a seperate database and synch using replication or home cooked scripts into your warehouse. -Original Message- Sent: zondag 24 november 2002 18:24 To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Dear gurus! We are evaluating a "strange" way to "recover" a producti

Re: A way to restore a DB

2002-11-24 Thread Arup Nanda
Andrey, I am not sure I understand "We can now import the large data tables - partition by partition..And I don't care if THIS step will take 2 weeks.". Didn't you mention that you couldn't afford 48 hours of recovery? Import is extremely slow, and I would not recommend exp/imp for backup recover

RE: A way to restore a DB

2002-11-24 Thread Richard Ji
Looks like your database is playing two roles. OLTP for heavily insertion and keeping historical data as well for 90 days. I would recommend separate the two functionalities. A small OLTP database for insertion which only keeps a day or so worth of data. This way you can recover it quickly. A

Re: A way to restore a DB

2002-11-24 Thread Yechiel Adar
Hello Andrey You can use the DataBee (www.databee.com) to generate scripts for the creation of the database. I think that you can create a small database, with the same sid and directory structure, on another machine and apply all the scripts there. Then you copy the files to a backup directory o

A way to restore a DB

2002-11-24 Thread Andrey Bronfin
Dear gurus! We are evaluating a "strange" way to "recover" a production DB. This is a 3.7 TB database, still growing, with LOTS of data inserted every 5 minutes (and several partitions belonging to several tables get dropped each day - we keep historical data for 90 days back), which we used to bac

A way to restore a DB

2002-11-24 Thread Andrey Bronfin

A way to restore a DB

2002-11-24 Thread Andrey Bronfin