In article <19980204003400.TAA11602_at_ladder03.news.aol.com>,
catcox_at_aol.com (Catcox) wrote:
>
> The manual says not to do a SHUTDOWN IMMEDIATE if you are going to do a full
> cold backup of the database. However SHUTDOWN NORMAL isn't likely to bring
> the database down since invariably there are sessions hanging. Of course the
> backup is done in the middle of the night, and I won't be around to kill any
> sessions. I'm wondering what other people have done. Should I write a
script
> to kill all sessions before the shutdown script runs or what?
>
> Below is the exact text from the manual.
>
> Oracle 7 Server Administrator's Guide (part no 6694-70-1292) from December
1992
> on page 18-8 says
>
> Preparing to Take a Full Backup:
>
> To guarantee that a database's data files are consistent, always shut down the
> database in normal priority before making a full database backup; never
perform
> a full database backup after an instance failure or after the database is
> shutdown with immediate or abort priority (that is using a SHUTDOWN IMMEDIATE
> or SHUTDOWN ABORT statement). In both these cases, the data files are likely
> not to be consistent with respect to a specific point in time.
>
> Thank you,
>
> Catherine Cox
> catcox_at_aol.com
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