Re: Cold Backups NT/Oracle8

Uisneach <ciaran.finneganNOciSPAM_at_udv.com.invalid> wrote in message news:0870b329.6774be3d_at_usw-ex0103-024.remarq.com...
> Hello All,
>
> I'm an absolute newbie to Oracle.
>
> I'd like to run a pre-backup script to shutdown all my Oracle
> databases, and a post-backup script to start them up again.
>
> I'm wading through help files at the moment but I'm not getting
> very far.
>
> Even if someone could point me in the right direction it would
> be great.
>
> Thanks in Advance,
>
> Ciaran.
>
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oradim80 help=y
You can use oradim both to start and shutdown the database for shutdown you'll need shutmode shuttype for startup startmode starttype and pfile parameters

and of course password and the sid in both cases.

Two lines is all.

Hth,

Sybrand Bakker, Oracle DBA Received on Wed Mar 29 2000 - 11:47:56 CST