Advantages of Creating a Database Shadow

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Shadowing offers several advantages:

• Recovery is quick: Activating a shadow makes it available immediately.
• Creating a shadow does not require exclusive access to the database.
• You can control the allocation of disk space. A shadow can span multiple files on multiple disks.
• Shadowing does not use a separate process. The database process handles writing to the shadow.
• Shadowing runs behind the scenes and needs little or no maintenance.

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