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As far as the cold backup goes what operating system are you using?
As far as the Hot backup goes I believe that the Veritas backup exec manuals
have a guide on doing exactly this.
-- Niall Litchfield Oracle DBA Audit Commission UK ***************************************** Please include version and platform and SQL where applicable It makes life easier and increases the likelihood of a good answer ****************************************** "Jigar Parsana" <jigarparsana_at_yahoo.com> wrote in message news:a079a49c.0301170618.7284a2d9_at_posting.google.com...Received on Fri Jan 17 2003 - 09:12:20 CST
> Hi,
>
> I have two questions in particular. I have a cold backup and a hot
> backup of a database. My Cold back up is basically a full backup of
> the entire oracle directory structure. and my hotbackup is done using
> Veritas backup exec. the thing is that we need to have this database
> on a new server so that we can test our backup and recovery
> procedures.My questions are:
>
> 1.What are the steps that i should do so create the database on the
> new server...should i just overwrite the entire directory structure or
> oracle using my cold back up ...or are there just some other files
> that i should copy and rebuild the database from that....if that is
> the case..what are the commands/steps to do so.
>
> 2. Once i build the database ...how do i apply the hotbackup to the
> new database so that we have data which is upto to the last hotbackup.
>
>
> Please understand that i am not a DBA and it just happens that
> there is no one at this point in time to do this job except me. I
> would highly appreciate any information on this problem...thanx in
> advance.
>
> Jigar