exnirad@brolga.cc.uq.oz.au (Nirad Sharma) (04/16/91)
How do the DBAs of the world back up their Oracle dbs ? Before backups of the database & image files I shutdown oracle first but I then lose the contents of the cache. Thus, after the db is restarted the initial users have to wait as data is fetched from the actual hard disk. (It's amazing how much stuff can be retrieved from the cache in operation.) So what are the preferred procedures ? I'm on a unix platform currently using V5 but migrating soon to V6. -- Nirad Sharma (exnirad@brolga.cc.uq.oz.au) Phone : (+61 7) 365 7575 Systems Programmer Fax : (+61 7) 870 5080 Continuing Education Unit The University of Queensland. QLD 4072