Advantages of Shadowing
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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.
- Shadow files use the same amount of disk space as the database. Log files, on the other hand, can grow well beyond the size of 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 can run behind the scenes and needs little or no maintenance.