Re: hots/cold backup script for 9i on linux

On 10 Jan, 15:39, ton de w <ton_de_win..._at_yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
> Thanks David and Vitalis for your input.
> I would like to be familiar with RMAN - and good advice to do so. But
> I really need to do a cold backup today and a hot backup today.
> RMAN for hot and cold seems good to me.
> in the meantime I have ried and failed to do a  alter database backup
> controlfile to trace <sigh>
> [oracle_at_carbon oracle]$ sqlplus /nolog
>
> SQL*Plus: Release 9.2.0.4.0 - Production on Thu Jan 10 16:34:09 2008
>
> Copyright (c) 1982, 2002, Oracle Corporation.  All rights reserved.
>
> SQL> connect / as sysdba
> Connected.
> SQL> alter database backup controlfile to trace;
>
> which just hangs
> Have I missed out an obvious step?- Hide quoted text -
>

Is the partition that your USER_DUMP_DEST directory sits on full?

HTH -g Received on Thu Jan 10 2008 - 10:49:09 CST