Hallo,

    no, we do hot full backups with SQL-Backtrack and TSM every day and use
dtoarchmon to save redo logs, when they are written (threshold 20% used
arch-dir, interval 30 min.). With fast tape drives a 400GB database is
backuped in 2 hours.

Greetings

Rolf Meyer
System consultant
Info Business Systems GmbH
22607 Hamburg

> Hi:
> Our oracle DBA claims that 'hot' incremental backups of Oracle takes as
> long as 'hot' full backups using SQL-BACKTRACK. Instead he does weekly full
> 'hot' backups of the database and backups of the redo logs thru the week.
>
> Is that how others using SQL-BACKTRACK and ORACLE do thier backups?
>
>
>
> Larry Clark
> NYS Thruway Authority
> (518)-471-4202
> Certified:
> Aix 4.3 System Administration
> Aix 4.3 System Support
> Tivoli ADSM/TSM V 3 Consultant