Gail wrote:
> 
> "Orchid XP v8" <voi### [at] devnull> wrote in message 
> news:491c777e$1@news.povray.org...
> 
>> Really?
>>
>> How much disk space do you have??
> 
> Haven't we been over that before?
> 
> Desktop:
> 1x80GB (2 paritions, OS)
> 1x320GB (2 partitions, apps and data)
> 1x160GB (1 partition, games)
> 
> Laptop:
> 2x120GB drives
> 
> Server:
> 1x80GB (OS and apps)
> 4x160GB in a RAID 5 config. Results in 480GB of usable space

Neat. Your laptop has more HD capacity than my entire DB server. (BTW, 
how the heck do you put *two* HDs in a laptop??)

>> Mind you, having said that, it takes about 3 minutes to backup *my* 
>> database...
> 
> That's slow for a 1.2 GB. My 10GB test DB backs up in under a minute, 
> and that's just on a desktop. No fast SCSI drives, backups and data on 
> same drive and tonnes other stuff running.
> Ok, mine is SQL and yours is Oracle so maybe 3 min is reasonable.

Well, the "backup" part is just a file copy. The database generates 
roughly 10 MB of log per week, so I doubt the running Oracle process 
slows the copying down significantly.

The copy is from disk to same disk, and the "disk" is actually a RAID-5 
array of Ulta320 SCSI drives. IIRC, it's 4 x 36 GB for a total of about 
108 GB. (It's partitioned into two NTFS partitions. For no particular 
reason. That's how the expensive Oracle consultant set it up...)

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