[ On Friday, June 14, 2002 at 15:07:40 (-0400), Bort, Paul wrote: ]
> Subject: RE: Backing up PostgreSQL?
>
> Sorry, when the previous poster mentioned 'snapshot', I was thinking of SQL
> Server's 'dump', which is transactionally consistent, because it's done by
> the SQL engine. I thought Oracle had a similar method for producing a usable
> backup of the SQL server?
yes, I believe Oracle also has a database dump utility even when using
filesystem storage (it certainly does when raw disk is used for storage
and I see no logical reason why the same tool wouldn't work for all
storage mechanisms, but then again we are talking about Oracle! :-)
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