Re: Backing up redo archive logs

Kevin S. Smith wrote:
>
> I am using the following method to backup my archive logs without success:
>
> FILES= ls /u04/oradata/arch/*.dbf ; export FILES;
>
> I then restart the arcvhiver and do the following:
>
> tar -rvf /dev/nst0 $files
>
> and I get this:
>
> tar: This does not look like a tar archive
> tar: Skipping to next header
> tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors
>
> I am far fro a linux expert but would like to get my backups on target. I
> got this method from Kevin Loney's Oracle 8i DBA handbook. Could somebody
> please steer me in the right direction?
>
> Thanks
> Ksmith

> FILES= ls /u04/oradata/arch/*.dbf ; export FILES;
>
>

tar cvf /dev/nst0 `ls -1 /blah/blah/*.dbf`

on most platforms (dunno about linux)

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