Supposing I have an ever-growing Oracle DB on one server, and I want to duplicate this schema and the data on another server – what would be the best approach to achieving this as part of a bespoke .net app?
What I’ve Tried/Researched:
- RMAN – seems to be the most appropriate technology available for writing batch files to do a backup but I don’t feel as though I’d have as much control over it as if it were developed from scratch in C#.
- PL/SQL – I could use stored procs to export data to csv and combine it with C#?
- DataReaders and official Oracle API’s – Seems to me like the most favourable approach as it is what I’m most familiar with – but am I reinventing the wheel given the fact that the above two technologies have the power to create these backups?
- ‘OOTB’ oracle executables – Taking oracle database dump via c# .net http://rockingtechnology.blogspot.co.uk/2011/06/oracle-backup-and-restore-code-in-cnet.html