Gary - send the developer to backup and recovery school. he is wrong. as Rachel said, *maybe* it will work once. but as a DBA, you personally can *never* support this in a real environment. you will not be able to guarantee the same results every time.
Tom Mercadante Oracle Certified Professional -----Original Message----- Sent: Friday, March 14, 2003 10:44 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L All... A developer working on a Solaris 2.6 server running Oracle 7.3.4 desires a nightly backup (by simply copying them to a backup directory) of the datafiles of an active instance. I explain that it will be a waste of tape because the files will be corrupt and useless. He counters, "As long as these files are there, irrespective of their state, oracle [sic] provides the tools to restore the skeleton database based on these files." Will this be the case? I understand that there will [most likely] be some loss of data, but will Oracle "fix" itself to a point where it's useful again? TIA Gary Chambers //-------------------------------------- // Lucent Technologies ITO/Servers/Unix // Senior Unix System Administrator // 4 Robbins Road, Westford, MA 01886 // 978-399-0481 / 888-480-6924 (Pager) // Nothing fancy and nothing Microsoft //-------------------------------------- -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.net -- Author: Gary Chambers INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fat City Network Services -- 858-538-5051 http://www.fatcity.com San Diego, California -- Mailing list and web hosting services --------------------------------------------------------------------- To REMOVE yourself from this mailing list, send an E-Mail message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (note EXACT spelling of 'ListGuru') and in the message BODY, include a line containing: UNSUB ORACLE-L (or the name of mailing list you want to be removed from). You may also send the HELP command for other information (like subscribing). -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.net -- Author: Mercadante, Thomas F INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fat City Network Services -- 858-538-5051 http://www.fatcity.com San Diego, California -- Mailing list and web hosting services --------------------------------------------------------------------- To REMOVE yourself from this mailing list, send an E-Mail message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (note EXACT spelling of 'ListGuru') and in the message BODY, include a line containing: UNSUB ORACLE-L (or the name of mailing list you want to be removed from). You may also send the HELP command for other information (like subscribing).
