In article <354497D2.6ADA_at_somewhere.com>, "Karl M. Nordquist"
<karln_at_somewhere.com> writes
>Jonathan Gennick wrote:
>>
>> 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>.
>
>We run Oracle v7.2.2.4.13 and v7.3.2.3.1. On the v7.2.x version, you
>must unload the NLMs, because Netware sometimes holds file locks on some
>files after shutdown, and you might not get a good copy. On v7.3.x, you
>do not have to unload the NLMs, for all file lock problems have been
>resolved.
>
>HTH
>
>Regards
>
>//Karl
>====================================================
>Karl M. Nordquist karln_at_brightwood.com
>Application Development
>Bright Wood Corporation Madras, Oregon
>====================================================
We have the same problem on NT, with 7.3.3. Oracle support tell us that
we have to upgrade to 7.3.4 and then apply a patch before it will be
fixed.
In the meantime we are stopping the NT Service (daemon, NLM) after
shutting down the database and before the tape backup. It is (for now)
the only safe way.
Unload those NLM's!
Hope this helps.
--
Paul Brewer
Received on Tue Apr 28 1998 - 00:00:00 CDT
