Re: Hotbackup under VMS

From: Peter J. Holzer <hjp-usenet_at_hjp.at>
Date: Sun, 11 Feb 2001 19:58:57 +0100
Message-ID: <slrn98do7h.pns.hjp-usenet@teal.h.hjp.at>

On 2001-02-11 13:23, WCK <abramswee_at_yahoo.com> wrote:
>just do on the svrmgrl first and do this;
>
>svrmgrl> alter tablespace xxxxx begin backup;
>svrmgrl> ! cp /oradata/prod/proddatafile1.dbf /dev/rmt0 (or whichever u do

       ^^^^^ This doesn't look like VMS to me.

>in vms to do file backup);
>svrmgrl> alter tablespace xxxxx end backup;
>
>do this for the rest and don't forget the controlfiles.

But more importantly:

If I backup one data file after the other, How can I ensure that the backup is consistent?

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