Do you shut down Oracle before you backup your NT box? If you don't,
it's unlikely to run if you ever need to restore the Oracle file
systems: the files will most certainly be out of sync.
In article <5Spp7.65175$j65.11613310_at_news4.rdc1.on.home.com>, Joseph D.
Ahmad <jahmad2088_at_home.com> writes
>Dear Group;
>
>I'm a systems analyst for a large school board, and our HR Department is
>about to run some parallel processing using their existing HR-Payroll System
>in conjunction with their new platform that runs on Oracle 8i / Windows NT
>Server 4.0 SP 5. As a result, I have some questions related to the backup
>procedures that I should undertake. Please note that on a nightly basis, we
>are backing up the NT Server, and the logical array on which the Oracle
>application exists ~ this backup is written to a DLT tape using a copy of
>ARCServe2000. Nonetheless, is there any other recommended backups that
>should be performed each day? Should I be exporting table information at the
>noon hour. A detailed recommendation would be most helpful.
>
>Thanks,
>
>Joseph D. Ahmad
>
>
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James Chappell
Received on Mon Sep 17 2001 - 18:08:05 CDT
