Teresita Castro wrote:
Hi!!
My name is Tere Castro I am from Mexico I am not a DBA, I uses ORacle
just to make queries, funtions some updates and create indexes or
tables, that all.
Now I am in a little difficult situation, here we have a DBA that do not
have much experience. He has been
I am from the old school, doesn't use RMAN, but soon will w/ our 9i
upgrades. I recommend to use RMAN if you are starting out and buy this
book.
http://www.bookpool.com/.x/dt3bpjmwz1/sm/0072226625
hth,
Gene [EMAIL PROTECTED] 01/15/04 03:14AM
Teresita Castro wrote: Hi!! My
name is Tere
To do incremental backups of Oracle databases via NetBackup you need to
purchase the Veritas Agent for Oracle, which is an add-on to the NetBackup
client. Veritas charges for this component, per server. You have to hand
over more money to Veritas. This may not be an option at your site.
You should get nightly cold
backups working first as it is the easiest. Then look into setting the database
to do archive logging.
Right now you don't have
any valid backups and if you crash and your DB fails to start you are
potentially screwed.
Also you should do a full
database export
Teresita,
You've gotten some good comments...even a quick tutorial on backups. My
recommendation to you (especially if you don't have any backups at all) is
that until you're more familiar with the tools you have that you should
initially avoid the complexities of incremental backups and
If you have the room, I would suggest doing a daily export of the
database until you get all the problems ironed out with Netbackup.
Especially if you are trying to do incremental backups. That way you
will at least have something to restore with if you find out your
Netbackup plan wasn't
OK, Teresita, what is your question? Do you have MLM? Did you put the database in the
backup
mode? Did you save archives? How about the control files? Did you backup control
files? I doubt that
this forum is an appropriate place for a backup recovery course, but it seems that
you have a good
