[CLUE-Tech] Oracle and compression

[Adam Bultman]

I have a question, and it deals with oracle databases. Since Jed is an
Oracle person, maybe he's the best to answer this.

Because of budget constraints, I have to back up a development box without
a tape drive. I wrote a script in perl (it's a windows box) that makes raw
copies of the oracle databases (exporting won't work, I can't get OMS to
work properly, no, scratch that, at all).  I then zip them up and FTP them
over to another server that IS backed up with tape.

Will oracle get angry if I do that? If I trash my database tomorrow, will
it get angry that I compressed the files?  Obviously, they'll be
uncompressed when I put them back into 'production', but I don't know if
that would somehow affect the files (Even though they should be the same
exact file, bitwise).

Just wondering.



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Adam Bultman
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