I'll give odd of 1 in 1,000,000 against. Never happen.
Export to ASCII and archive that. You'll be able to read it with something.
Having a database this big must be a guy thing. "Yeah, I've gotta 500 GB
database!" (Sounds better when I do it in person and best if some large
fellow from Texas says it with his thumbs hooked in his belt loops). Sorry
Bill.
Kelly J. Lipp
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-----Original Message-----
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of
Prather, Wanda
Sent: Thursday, April 05, 2001 9:13 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Long Term Archive for Databases
Suppose you did restore an Oracle data base that was 7 years old.
How confident are you that your Oracle software could still read it?
-----Original Message-----
From: Jim Taylor [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Thursday, April 05, 2001 10:48 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Long Term Archive for Databases
I keep getting this pressure from clients to keep copies of their 500GB
oracle database for 7 years. They don't seem to know why they want it kept
for seven years. Like most others they don't think of what their restore
requirements are.
Has anyone had to restore/retrieve a large database that was, say more than
2 years old. If so was it successful and was it as simple as restoring just
the DB.
ThanX
> Jim Taylor
> Senior Associate, Technical Services
> Enlogix
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