Right, of course,
in my eagerness to help I fogot to see that he was trying to do a hot
backup.
I suggested the solving of the hanging problem and missed the big picture.
Of course he needs archive log for hot backups.
Thanx for pointing this out. He needs to enable automatic archiving .
Which it seems he has picked up on.
"Holger Baer" <holger.baer_at_science-computing.de> wrote in message
news:3EDDD250.5010508_at_science-computing.de...
> Steve Ashmore wrote:
> > You database is probably still in Archivelog mode , but you have
disabled
> > automatic archiving.
> > So after your 3rd switch the database hangs.
> > To shut off archiving:
> >
> > shutdown immediate
> > startup mount
> > alter database noarchivelog;
> > alter database open;
> >
> > Be sure you are certain that you do no want archiving as it limits your
> > recovery options;
> >
> > select * from v$backup;
> >
> > Will show what is in backup mode;
> >
> > Stephen C. Ashmore
> > Brainbench MVP for Oracle Administration
> > http://www.brainbench.com
> > Author of: 'So You Want to be an Oracle DBA?'
>
>
> I hope this does not sound stupid, but surely the point of the OP was
> to be able to perform hot backups? Always thought that's only possible
> in ArchiveLog mode. But since you wrote an oracle book it must be my
> mistake :-)
>
> Cheers
>
> Holger
>
Received on Thu Jun 05 2003 - 05:47:58 CDT
