Can anybody explain me cold backup and hot backup?

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Can anybody explain me cold backup and hot backup? ..

Answer / rajendra

Cold Backup and Hot Backup terms are used by Oracle. These
terms are not available In MS SQL Server.

Cold Backup: - Takes the Database offline and copy database
files to different loction is called cold backup in Oracle.

Hot Backup:- Taking the Database backup when the Database
is online.

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Can anybody explain me cold backup and hot backup? ..

Answer / guenter

i think both of the above answers are right:
Cold Server backups:
http://www.microsoft.com/licensing/software-assurance/cold-
backup.aspx
Oracle Database Cold Backup:
http://www.oracle.com/technology/pub/articles/havewala-rman-
grid.html

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Can anybody explain me cold backup and hot backup? ..

Answer / samriti

Cold Server backups goes for those machine which have
software installed and configured and then turned off.

Hot Server backups are those which frequently are turned
on and ready to move into production mode immediately.

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