Best Backup option

Hi all,
There were some disk space issues in one of the servers having a development database, so the network team had moved the table spaces and some other files, but the database crashed after which they put the files back. When i checked the database it was in mounted state so i openened it and i am able to perform operations without any problem.
But I am sure that if i shutdown my database and startup it will give me some problems.
So i wanted some suggestons as to which is the best method of taking backup so that i do not loose data. I cannot configure rman as i would have to create a rman database which will cause space issues.
I was thinking of exporting data of all the users, something like
exp userid=<schema_owner/password> FILE=<file_name> ... exp owner=(user1,user2) etc ...
is this the best method i can adopt, kindly suggest.
appreciate your help,
regards,

Hi,
There were some disk space issues in one of the servers having a development database, so the network team had moved the table spaces and some other files, but the database crashed after which they put the files back. When i checked the database it was in mounted state so i openened it and i am able to perform operations without any problem.
But I am sure that if i shutdown my database and startup it will give me some problems.How can you say that database will have some problems if once shutdown?
Thing is if it has started successfully once means that is fine. You can simply do a shutdown cleanly and reopen it will be fine.
So i wanted some suggestons as to which is the best method of taking backup so that i do not loose data. I cannot configure rman as i would have to create a rman database which will cause space issues.You can go for RMAN and there is no mandatory sort of thing to configure RMAN on different database. You can always connect to RMAN using your target database and take backup of the database.
I was thinking of exporting data of all the users, something like
exp userid=<schema_owner/password> FILE=<file_name> ... exp owner=(user1,user2) etc ... This is always an option to go for. This will be your logical backup and restore it successfully you will require database to be running first. So if you think that database will not open after you shutdown then how will you import this into your closed database? Yes, recreating a database will be an option open to you in that case.
is this the best method i can adopt, kindly suggest.Best is always the thing that serves you in difficult time and get you out of the difficult situation so you decide what best for you.
Regards

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"Basically, I travel all the time and am always worried that I will 'leave' behind the latest file and end up keeping all my files on my hard drive and then carrying a external backup."
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13. *Level-1 security of your vital data.
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1. Like all HD-based data is subject to ferromagnetic and mechanical failure.
2. Unless the user ritually copies working active data to HD external archives, then there is a time-gap of potential missing data; as such users must be proactive in archiving data that is being worked on or recently saved or created.
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4. Best-idealized 1st platform redundancy for data protection.
5. *Perfect primary tier and level-2 security of your vital data.
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2. Like all HD-based data is subject to ferromagnetic and mechanical failure.
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#4. Online archives
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#5. DVD professional archival media
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1. Cloud storage can only be quasi-possessed.
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1. Quick, easy and cheap storage location for simplex files for transfer to keep on hand and yet off the computer.
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