Hi Sachin,

Oracle being a RDBMS has all support for backup and restore utility, you can take datafiles / tablespaces offline and can take a complete backup.

Oracle can ensure its all-time availability even though you take tablespace offline.

Frequency of backup is also a very important issue and can be planned through schedulers and scripts.

Backup using export is not the ideal way but can certainly work good depending upon the database you maintain and the cruciality it holds.

Do refer to book Oracle 8i Backup and Recovery Guide from TMH & TMH Oracle 24X7 to understand the issues related with Backups.




>Dear All,
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>First of all I would like to thank Mr.Mark E. McCasland for his excellent & prompt solution for the backup of the Oracle database using Export utility thru Batch file...It's working.....
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>I wanted some more information about backing up my Oracle database apart from the regular Export utility..I just wanted to know which is the most preferred & reliable backup option(on-line or off-line) other than the Export utility ???? Could anyone help me out ???
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>Thanks & Regards
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>Sachin S. Kothare