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Oracle Database Administration: The Essential Refe
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Oracle Database Administration: The Essential Refe

by David C. Kreines, Brian Laskey
April 1999
Intermediate to advanced
584 pages
23h 17m
English
O'Reilly Media, Inc.
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System failure

A system failure means that the entire system is unavailable. A failure of this kind may be the result of either a site outage (caused by fire or natural disaster) or a total failure of the server.

Tip

It is standard practice to have at least two copies of your backup tapes, with one copy stored at a different location. This way, you not only do not have a single point of failure if the tape containing your archive file breaks, but you also are able to get at your tapes in the event of a disaster. Even storing a single copy of your tapes in a fireproof vault will not work if you cannot cross a police line after an explosion.

In the case of a system failure, you have three options:

  • Recover the entire database from a cold backup.

  • Recover the entire database from hot or cold backups and apply as many archive files as you have available.

  • Recover the entire database from exports using full, cumulative, and incremental exports.

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