Sunday, 26 January 2014

What is hot backup and logical backup?

Hot backup
- Backing up the archive log files when database is open is called Hot backup.
- To do this, the ARCHIVELOG mode is enabled.
- Following files are backed up - All data files, Archive log, redo log files and control files.

Logical backup
- Logical back ip is reading a set of database records and writing them into a file.
- An Export utility is required to take the backup while an Import utility is required to recover from the backup.

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