This applies to hot backups, only.

--Steve

Weber, Philip wrote:

>Dear all,
>
>I am being told that in order to do an RMAN backup, we must have our
>databases in archive log mode.  Lack of space to do so is holding up getting
>some databases on a backup schedule, so does anybody know if this is true?
>
>Ideally I would like to back the databases up online, accept that I don't
>have point-in-time recovery but be able to recover back to time of backup,
>but not have the overhead of archive logging being turned on - these
>database are updated in batch mode only.
>
>thanks for any info.
>
>regards, Phil
>
>Phil Weber
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