TDP for Oracle reliability

2006-11-27 Thread Timothy Lin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi all, quick Q regarding TDP for Oracle our dba insists that having a physical dump of the db is the most secure way to backup our database ... and should be used with whatever tool we're deploying .. I don't know much about oracle so I'm quite

Re: TDP for Oracle reliability

2006-11-27 Thread Gee, Norman
RMAN is the oracle tool for backups. Did they know that if you implement Oracle RAC, the only way to backup is RMAN. Are you using RAW file space? Some Oracle DBA claims that Oracle runs faster on RAW file spaces instead of UNIX file spaces. The physical dump requires Oracle to be down the