Re: why do we need to shutdown database or application server to backup Oracle Home?

From: <vitalisman_at_gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2008 13:10:22 -0700 (PDT)
Message-ID: <62f3a699-8bae-492c-b485-9b16f63080e6@s12g2000prg.googlegroups.com>

On 14 mar, 01:52, cs3..._at_yahoo.com wrote:
> Dear Group,
>
> We are using Oracle 10g on Linux.
>
> While it is easy to understand we need to shutdown database to backup
> database files, I do not quite understand why do we need to shutdown
> database or oracle application server to backup Oracle Homes.
>
> It is my understanding that oracle processes will only read those
> files inside the Oracle home, but not writing to them, except log
> files.
>
> Any explanations will be highly appreciated.
>
> Thanks

On Linux/Unix, you don't need to stop your instances to back up their Oracle Homes.
No idea regarding Oracle application server. Received on Fri Mar 14 2008 - 15:10:22 CDT

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