Re: oraback problem

sorry.... i should have ststed that this was Oracle 8.1.7 on Redhat 6.2 - Even all paths seem to be correct and the instance is up and usable oraback does not seem to think it is? It is alive if i do a tnsping as the oracle user which is the same user that runs trhe script?

Everything seems to be there except...
IFILE=$ORACLE_HOME/dbs/config${ORACLE_SID}.ora

could someone explain to me please what should go in the IFILE as i'm having trouble finding out?

thanks again for any input.

Tom
"Tom Brown" <tom_at_eazyriders.com> wrote in message news:GmFq8.2800$oW2.17499191_at_news-text.cableinet.net...
> Hi,
>
> I'm having a problem getting oraback.sh to run. When it is run it states
> that oracle is not available so it thinks the instance is not running but
it
> is? Does anyone know why this might be? Below is the output of what
> occurs...
>
> thanks
>
> Tom
>
> [oracle_at_dbrestore oracle]$ oraback/oraback.sh
> ==============================================================
> Oracle database backup started on dbrestore: 03:41:21 PM 04/03/2002
> ==============================================================
>
> Creating table of contents for this backup...
>
> Checking the status of Oracle instance DCST..
> Apr 3 15:41:21 dbrestore oraback.sh DCST: WARNING: ORA-01034: ORACLE not
> available
> Oracle instance DCST appears to be down...
> grep: /home/oracle/backup/DCST/logfile.list: No such file or directory
> basename: too few arguments
> Try `basename --help' for more information.
> Oracle instance DCST is supposed to backed up live...
> Oracle instance DCST WILL NOT be backed up...
> (It is down and there are no backup config files in
> /home/oracle/backup/DCST from a previous run of oraback/oraback.sh)
> ===============================================================
> Oracle database backup ended on dbrestore: 03:41:21 PM 04/03/2002
> ===============================================================
> [oracle_at_dbrestore oracle]$
>
>
Received on Wed Apr 03 2002 - 11:24:02 CST