Back & Restore

Question

Dear Gurus,
I have the following requirement:
I have a production databaser running on Dell Server with Windows 2003. I want to create a back up server for the same and it need to be updated daily evening. So i have writtent a batch fil as follows:
echo "Backup of 10g Database User"
del d:\10gDB_Backup\*.dmp
del d:\10gDB_Backup\*.log
del s:\*.dmp
exp system/oracle file=D:\10gDB_Backup\10gDB%DATE%.dmp full=Y log=D:\10gDB_Backup\10gDB.log
echo "Finished Backup"
echo "Backup of 10g Database User"
copy D:\10gDB_Backup\*.dmp s:\
echo "Finished Copying the 10g Database to Backup Server"
Now from the above file you can see i am using the exp utility and taking a full backup of the database and copying it to S drive which is nothing but one of the drives i have mapped for coping over the network to my back up server. Now on my backup server i have installed Oracle 10g Database same version as on production with the same SID. Now after doing the export can i run import on the back up server using system user to load all the data from the export file?
Will it work also i have to perform this exp/imp daily evening automatically so what will happen to the data which is on Back up will all the users data will overided or what will happen, I will be thankful if anyone can explain and guide me in performing the above mention task.
Note Db Size is 450MB.
Regards
Kiran Rana

Answer 1

Hi Kiran
This would work, but on test server you need to drop all the users except users like '%SYS%', dbsnmp,outln and also depends on your application if it is dependant on XDB using XMLDOM. in such case XDB user should not be dropped before import on the TEST server, after dropping you need to import.
Babu Kanickaraj