February 28, 2014

Very many customers are using export / import or data pump as a backup solution in case they are losing a table or some content for several years now. But as the database size increases the size of the export and more problematic the time needed for the export increases as well. Most recently one of my customers was facing the problem that the time window he specified for the ordinary backup, the export and some batches was no longer sufficient. Instead the batch run hasn’t finished when the users came back to work in the morning. So the question