Perform Incremental Backup in Oracle 8i

Hi all,
I would much appreciate if anyone can provide me steps to do incremental back up using oracle 8i.

1) Normally, when we're talking about backups, we're talking about physical backups, i.e. backups of a database. Exports can be useful additions to a proper backup strategy, but should not be used in place of proper physical backups.
2) You cannot do an incremental export in a useful fashion. There is an "incremental export" option which will export the entire contents of an entire table if a single row changes, which may be useful if you have a schema with lots of large, totally static tables, but that's pretty rare.
Justin

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Is the time/timezone set correctly on the server?
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ORCLDB wrote:
Hello All,
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Stellios wrote:
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