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Physical and Logical Backup
What kind of backup you take Physical / Logical? Which one is better and Why?


  
Total Answers and Comments: 1 Last Update: August 30, 2008     Asked by: Pragati.rch 
  
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Logical backup means backing up the individual database objects such as tables, views , indexes.. using the utility called EXPORT, provided by Oracle. The objects exported in this way can be imported into either same database or into any other database. The backed-up copy of information is stored in a dumpfile, and this file can be read using another utility called IMPORT. There is no other way you can use this file.
Physical backups rely on the Operating System to make a copy of the physical files like data files, log files, control files that comprise the database

We don't prefered logical backup.
it is very slow and recoverys not possible


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bishma Member Since: August 2008   Contribution: 1    

RE: Physical and Logical Backup
Logical backup means backing up the individual database objects such as tables views indexes.. using the utility called EXPORT provided by Oracle. The objects exported in this way can be imported into either same database or into any other database. The backed-up copy of information is stored in a dumpfile and this file can be read using another utility called IMPORT. There is no other way you can use this file.
Physical backups rely on the Operating System to make a copy of the physical files like data files log files control files that comprise the database

We don't prefered logical backup.
it is very slow and recoverys not possible

 
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