Because hot backup mode merely freezes the SCN # of the oracle blocks for
the tablespace in question. When the tablespace is taken out of hot backup
mode, the SCN's are updated. Changes in oracle are not controlled by system
time (OS time) the SCN's govern the sequence of when things happened.
David Lai wrote in message <37128413.279875CB_at_VERITAS.com>...
>Oracle datafiles' OS timestamps are usually not updated until
>the database is shutdown. It seems logical to me that when a
>tablespace is put in hot backup mode the OS timestamps of its
>datafiles should be updated (for OS level incremental backups).
>I was running Oracle 8.0.5 on HP-UX 11.0 and when I put the
>database in hot backup mode I did not notice any changes in
>the OS timestamps of the datafiles. Could someone tell me why?
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>David
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Received on Mon Apr 12 1999 - 20:47:08 CDT
