Originally posted by stecal
1) Anyone who uses export/import as their one and only backup strategy.
It depends on the kind of application and environment one works for. I would modify stecal's line to "DBA who thinks export...."
Sometimes, the client is willing to lose all the data since the last backup(export). Maybe because client does not want to put some extra resources into archiving and rman stuff. Who is to blame in this case? Not the DBA. With the bad market around, definetly I would not be arguing with my manager. We can only suggest what is good and what is bad. Most of the times decisions are made not by DBA's but by people who pays them. Its a whole big debate, but I would stop here.

Thanks.