Re: shutdown immediate or abort for cold-backup?

"Hemant K Chitale" <hkchital_at_singnet.com.sg> wrote in message news:9m0d6u$53v$1_at_coco.singnet.com.sg...
> You would need to do a RECOVER database
> after a SHUTDOWN ABORT if ...
> you were running an Online Backup and one
> more tablespaces were in BEGIN BACKUP mode
> when the database was shutdown.
>
> You do NOT need to restore datafiles. Most times,
> the recovery should go through from the online redo logs
> unless there has been a lot of activity on the tablespaces
> in backup mode and the activity has already been archived
> out.

Actually you don't even need to do a recover database. Just identify the datafiles that are in back mode and do an "alter database datafile end backup" on them.

I have a unix shell script that automates this in 8i. Should be easily convertible to 9i.

#!/bin/ksh
# Run this script after db restart to take files out of backup mode svrmgrl <<! | awk -F\; '$1 ~ "^alter" {print $1 "\;"}' > end_backup.sql connect internal
set charwidth 200
select 'alter database datafile '''||f.name||''' end backup;' from v\$backup b, v\$datafile f
where b.file# = f.file#
and b.status = 'ACTIVE';
!
svrmgrl <<!
connect internal
@end_backup.sql
alter database open;
!

begin 666 end_backup.sh
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end Received on Wed Aug 22 2001 - 09:08:25 CDT