Re: Veritas and Oracle backups

"Jon Vahlberg" <jonov_at_iprimus.com.au> wrote in news:3c88872e$1_1_at_news.iprimus.com.au:

> Hi,
>
> I am looking at backing up a couple of tablespaces that are managed by
> Veritas DB Edition to Oracle. I would like to back them up to a separate
> directory but I don't want to mount a snapshot partition to do it. How
> can I do the following:
>
>
>
> ALTER TABLESPACE <tablespace> BEGIN BACKUP;
>
> cp <raw files> to backup directory
>
> ALTER TABLESPACE <tablespace> END BACKUP;

Sure, but keep in mind that raw file backups of dbf files aren't valid without the logs that contain ALL transactions being processed while the tablespace was in backup mode.

-- 
-wiseguy
Recursion is such a deep concept.