On 13-Nov-08 13:00, Invisible wrote:
>>> In fairness, as I understand it the guy is an SQL Server expert, not 
>>> an Oracle expert.
>>
>> No fairness.
>> SQL Server doesn't have the dump feature that he's proposing you use 
>> (well, you can do it, but it's non-trivial). SQL Server backups are 
>> full database backups and are online backups (can be done while DB is 
>> in use) and restore with the DB in exactly the state that it was at 
>> the time of the backup
> 
> ...so, rather like real Oracle backups then.
> 
> Presumably the guy did a little researching on Oracle and found *a* way 
> to make a copy of the data, and that's what we're using.
> 
> Using a logical backup rather than a physical backup does take up less 
> disk space. However, it takes more time to backup and restore (and these 
> operations are logged transactions, and triggers can fire, etc.) Myself 
> I'd prefer a real physical backup...
> 
How much diskspace are we talking about? Remember current price is about 

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