Re: Should we say COLD or HOT backup OR ARCHIVELOG or NOARCHIVELOG mo

2002-03-18 Thread bill thater
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > but isn't cold backup is possible only if ur running in noarchieve mode else > you have to go for hot backup. > BigP OK let's get the definitions down first. AFAIK: cold backup := database shut down and an OS copy of all the necessary files. hot backup := place TS

Re: Should we say COLD or HOT backup OR ARCHIVELOG or NOARCHIVELOG mo

2002-03-18 Thread Big Planet
but isn't cold backup is possible only if ur running in noarchieve mode else you have to go for hot backup. BigP - Original Message - To: "Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, March 18, 2002 7:41 AM > Ok maybe you will think this is a silly thread,

Re: Should we say COLD or HOT backup OR ARCHIVELOG or NOARCHIVELOG mo

2002-03-18 Thread Ora NT DBA
Hi Robert, Oracle University training uses the terms online and offline and points out that online backups can only be made to databases that are in archivelog mode. Offline backups can be made to either archivelog or noarchivelog databases. John [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >Ok maybe you wil

Should we say COLD or HOT backup OR ARCHIVELOG or NOARCHIVELOG mo

2002-03-18 Thread Freeman, Robert
Ok maybe you will think this is a silly thread, but I've wondered about this before... We (DBA's) use the terms hot and cold backups all the time. I wonder though, when we talk about cold backups if the terminology should not include the mode of the backup: cold archivelog mode backup cold n