RE: Should we say COLD or HOT backup OR ARCHIVELOG or NOARCHIVELO

2002-03-19 Thread Freeman, Robert
What about the ability to be able to do point in time recovery? What about the ability to be able to make a copy of a database without having to shut it down? What about the ability to recover specific datafiles without having to shutdown the entire database. What about the ability to recover spec

Re: Should we say COLD or HOT backup OR ARCHIVELOG or NOARCHIVELO

2002-03-19 Thread Stephane Faroult
"CHAN Chor Ling Catherine (CSC)" wrote: > > Hi, > > Pardon me if I am wrong, I thought the only reason for the database to be in > archive log mode is so that I can recover the database up to the time when > the database crushes. > You are right except for ONLY. Another reason is the desire to

RE: Should we say COLD or HOT backup OR ARCHIVELOG or NOARCHIVELO

2002-03-19 Thread Freeman, Robert
With some of the 9i new features available with 9i, perhaps ARCHIVELOG is the way to go for the most part. Being able to recover a corrupted block, while the datafile is still ONLINE and available well, does kind of cut down on your downtime a bit, doesn't it? :-) Same thing with running arch

RE: Should we say COLD or HOT backup OR ARCHIVELOG or NOARCHIVELO

2002-03-19 Thread Connor McDonald
t; -Original Message- > From: Deshpande, Kirti > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Tuesday, March 19, 2002 8:13 AM > To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L > Subject:RE: Should we say COLD

RE: Should we say COLD or HOT backup OR ARCHIVELOG or NOARCHIVELO

2002-03-18 Thread Deshpande, Kirti
, New Bee -Original Message- From: Deshpande, Kirti [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, March 19, 2002 8:13 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Subject: RE: Should we say COLD or HOT backup OR ARCH

RE: Should we say COLD or HOT backup OR ARCHIVELOG or NOARCHIVELO

2002-03-18 Thread CHAN Chor Ling Catherine (CSC)
ORACLE-L Subject:RE: Should we say COLD or HOT backup OR ARCHIVELOG or NOARCHIVELO Here is en exception: I happen to administer a couple of data mart databases, that are loaded once or twice a month. Both run in noarchive log

RE: Should we say COLD or HOT backup OR ARCHIVELOG or NOARCHIVELO

2002-03-18 Thread Deshpande, Kirti
Here is en exception: I happen to administer a couple of data mart databases, that are loaded once or twice a month. Both run in noarchive log mode. This is how these have been set up when we started back in 1998. We take cold backups after the data load, table/partition analyze. It takes 5 hours

RE: Should we say COLD or HOT backup OR ARCHIVELOG or NOARCHIVELO

2002-03-18 Thread DENNIS WILLIAMS
Connor - Good points, but obviously there are exceptions. We have a data warehouse that we keep in NOARCHIVELOG mode. After the weekly load we do a cold backup. However, lately there has been talk of some updates during the week, so that may have to change. Dennis Williams DBA Lifetouch, Inc. [EMA

RE: Should we say COLD or HOT backup OR ARCHIVELOG or NOARCHIVELO

2002-03-18 Thread Jesse, Rich
Unless you're database is being used exclusively for Oracle Internet Directory, in which case Oracle Corp says that traditional methods of DB backup and recovery are not applicable in most cases. And since we're running Oracle ASR, I plan on keeping the RDS in NOARCHIVELOG mode. We're already ba

RE: Should we say COLD or HOT backup OR ARCHIVELOG or NOARCHIVELO

2002-03-18 Thread Freeman, Robert
I agree... cold can be the same, but recovery is different. RF Robert G. Freeman - Oracle8i OCP Oracle DBA Technical Lead CSX Midtier Database Administration The Cigarette Smoking Man: Anyone who can appease a man's conscience can take his freedom away from him. -Original Message

RE: Should we say COLD or HOT backup OR ARCHIVELOG or NOARCHIVELO

2002-03-18 Thread Alexander . Feinstein
Title: RE: Should we say COLD or HOT backup OR ARCHIVELOG or NOARCHIVELO Robert, Let me disagree with you. Cold *backup* is the same in archivelog mode and in noarchivelog mode. The *recovery* is (could be) different. Consider the following. I make a cold backup of a production DB, and

RE: Should we say COLD or HOT backup OR ARCHIVELOG or NOARCHIVELO

2002-03-18 Thread Connor McDonald
Just to add to the controversy, I often make the argument to developers/users/managers/etc that noarchivelog does not exist. In my opinion, 'noarchivelog' is like waving a flag saying "I stand an excellent chance of losing a whole lot of data one day". Some years ago at a place I worked, some

RE: Should we say COLD or HOT backup OR ARCHIVELOG or NOARCHIVELO

2002-03-18 Thread Freeman, Robert
I agree with your definitionsbut the cold backup in archivelog mode is fundamentally different from one done in noarchivelog more (with respect to online redo logs and control files) if you are in archivelog mode and want to be able to do point in time recovery. Robert G. Freeman - Oracle8i O

RE: Should we say COLD or HOT backup OR ARCHIVELOG or NOARCHIVELO

2002-03-18 Thread Freeman, Robert
But my concern is this. Say a DBA has been doing cold, noarchivelog mode, backups for a year. Then, he gets this great idea (or direction) to put the database in archivelog mode, but to still do cold (or offline) backups, so all he changes in his backup/recovery strategy is the backup of the archi

Re: Should we say COLD or HOT backup OR ARCHIVELOG or NOARCHIVELO

2002-03-18 Thread Ora NT DBA
You can call them whatever you like,  nothing in the world will save the clueless person you describe below :-).     You are correct in saying it is a training issue,  I personally use hot and cold but think offline and online are just fine as well.  The issue is that the mode "archive vs noa

RE: Should we say COLD or HOT backup OR ARCHIVELOG or NOARCHIVELO

2002-03-18 Thread Freeman, Robert
I can read your question 2 ways, so let me answer it both ways... If you are asking if you can only do a cold backup when in noarchivelog mode, you are correct. However, in archivelog mode you can do cold or hot backup. The procedure is a bit different in archivelog mode, because of the recovery