Re: question on archived logs

Not if you have the archiver process running. If you want automatic archiving, set the init.ora parameter log_archive_start to true and restart the database.

hth,
Ivan Bajon, ocp

Pavel006 wrote in message <20000308094814.01559.00001091_at_ng-cb1.aol.com>...
>I have a backup script that does online
>backup and backs up archived logs
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>Before doing a backup on archived logs,
>the script does
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>step 1. "alter system switch logfile"
> to flush current online logfile.
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>step 2. "alter system archive log all"
> to archive logfiles that are full
> but not yet archived.
>
>step 3. Does a backup of archived logfiles
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>i want to know Is step 2 required in the script?
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>Thanks in advance
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Received on Thu Mar 09 2000 - 00:00:00 CST