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What is cold backup and hot backup (in case of Oracle)?

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Question added by Ayman Shorman , Devops Manager , Smart Charging Technologies
Date Posted: 2013/06/12
Ahmed Shokry
by Ahmed Shokry , Head of Engineering, Systems and Database Architecture , The Egyptian Credit Bureau "I-Score"

Cold backup:- Backup taken while database is down, So no users can access the database.

 

Hot Backup:- Taken while database is up and running, So users can work normally. ARCHIVELOG mode must be enabled for Hot Backup.

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