On 12 Nov 2007 at 9:48, Jason Martin wrote: > On Mon, Nov 12, 2007 at 12:37:01PM -0500, Dan Langille wrote: > > If you are backing up databases or other data files which may be in > > use, best practice is to dump the data to an ASCII file, then backup > > the file. > I'd suggest that it would be better to follow whatever procedure > is proscribed by the DBMS documentation :> This would be a very > poor way to back up Oracle, for example.
Why is this a very poor way to back up Oracle? -- Dan Langille - http://www.langille.org/ Available for hire: http://www.freebsddiary.org/dan_langille.php ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. Now Search log events and configuration files using AJAX and a browser. Download your FREE copy of Splunk now >> http://get.splunk.com/ _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
