Re: Backup on Netware

From: Jonathan Gennick <gennick_at_worldnet.att.net>
Date: Fri, 24 Apr 1998 16:26:34 GMT
Message-ID: <6hqefm$bis@bgtnsc03.worldnet.att.net>

On Thu, 23 Apr 1998 15:46:48 -0500, Jim Anderson <anderson_at_ci.lincoln.ne.us> wrote:

>Someone in our department was told by Oracle support that on Netware you
>must not only shutdown the database but unload the NLM's in order to get
>a clean backup of a database. Anyone else have information on this? It
>doesn't make sense to me. If the database is shutdown, no writes to the
>db can occur so the backup should be clean.

Huh. Now you've got me a bit worried. We also shutdown the database, but do not unload the NLMs. Maybe this would be a good excuse to test our restore procedure<g>. Received on Fri Apr 24 1998 - 11:26:34 CDT