Message text written by INTERNET:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Try doing a live backup of an Oracle 7.x or earlier Data Base instance using the UNIX tape backup utility, without shutting down the data base. You get garbage after you restore the tapes the instance is no longer useable. The DBA knew that you
should either shut down the DB or use Oracle's backup utility but no one ever asked him. So the Database was un-recoverable. It had to be recreated, not fun, not completely successful either. The tapes all verify by the way. There are more ways to screw up backups, I have lists. < procedural stupidity can't be overcome. backing up photographic files isn't subject to transactional integerity issues. Herb...
