==> On Mon, 30 May 2005 20:03:03 -0500, "Stapleton, Mark" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf Of Pretorius Louw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> I want to use Export for longterm retention without impact on my DB, BUT I >> will need more than one copy of the volume, how does ons make a copy of an >> Exported volume? > One doesn't. One runs multiple exports. I got this answer to the question "How does one make a copy of a DB backup", once. I have accomplished the copy-of-DB-backup by making my DB backups to a remote server device class. Since this data (in the opinion of the receiving server) is just some archives, you have the usual set of options in making extra copies. As a bonus, I was able to "stack" multiple DB backups on one physical volume, thus saving lots of space. Is there a reason a similar method might not work for Pretorius? I would actually recommend using a backupset, rather than an export, but the theory ought to be the same. You're going to have to do -something- odd to make use of it, so the retrieve-backupset-and-use-on-disk procedure is as good as import-node-and-use-from-server procedure. - Allen S. Rout
