Re: Oracle, EMC and BCVs

From: Stefan Roesch <Stefan.Roesch_at_t-online.de>
Date: Mon, 21 Aug 2000 20:47:37 +0200
Message-ID: <39A17949.5FAEA422@t-online.de>

rereidy_at_my-deja.com wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I have a large warehouse (> 600GB) hosted on Solaris, using EMC with a
> BCV disk set.
>
> When doing a backup (via a EMC mirror split and using 'ALTER SYSTEM
> SUSPEND'), is it necessary to have the instance in archive log mode?
>
> Thanks for you help.
>
> Ron Reidy
> Oracle DBA
>
> Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
> Before you buy.

Your Database should be in archive log mode.

Despite this it would be better not to use suspend. The command wasn't developed for this use.
You should place all tablespaces in backup mode, make split, and end backup mode of the tablespaces

Otherwise in case of corruption you will have a hard time

Hope this helps
Stefan Received on Mon Aug 21 2000 - 13:47:37 CDT