Re: Solaris 10 oracle backup

>There are no users on the system after midnight. We have about a 10
>hour window where there are no users on the system.

And you are sure that every one of these users always properly log off?  Even so, do a ps -ef; you will see, oracle is always doing something, and it consideres itself a user. Login and select * from v$session, you'll see you are not the only one on.

Daniel is right, RMAN is much smarter about Oracle than any other backup solution, definitely the way to go for the long term, too easy to get locked into short term solutions.

jg

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