Hello, On Mittwoch, 8. Januar 2003 09:13, Elias Martenson wrote: [several lines cut out, about doing log backups or not] > > Isn't this level of data security the same level as you get for an > ordinary file server? You don't have log backups there either, but you > do have backups. > > Am I completely off the mark here, and if yes, could someone explain the > difference to me? > the fine point is that with a log you get point in time recovery, so that, when you know that yerserday at 4 pm someone issued 'delete from mytable' you may roll forward the database to the state 3:59. This is definitely something a mere file backup cannot offer to you - except when you backup very, very often.
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