Re: Don't Use Shutdown Immediate for Full Backup

Hi Catherine,

There was simple recommendation in this newsgroup earlier. Try this in your sql script:

shutdown immediate
startup
shutdown normal

You will be sure concerning your backup.

                         Andrew Protasov

Catcox wrote in message <19980204003400.TAA11602_at_ladder03.news.aol.com>...
>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
Received on Wed Feb 04 1998 - 00:00:00 CST