Re: Netware Backup Tools

In article <mford.8.000C2658_at_warren.med.harvard.edu> mford_at_warren.med.harvard.edu (Mark J. Ford) writes:

>Does anyone know of any Netware backup systems which will backup an Oracle 7
>for Netware system while it is running? We currently use ArcServe 5.0x and
>DBAgent to do this, but want to know if other products exist. The DBAgent
>part runs on the Netware server with Oracle and automatically puts it into
>backup mode when the backup occurs. Any product names that do this or
>something like this would be appreciated!

I am currently running Oracle for Netware RDBM ver 6.036 and it is my understanding that the database had to be shutdown in order to perform backups. The reason being that the "control" file, which contains information on the state of the database is written at shutdown. Trying to reinstall your database from tape backup would not work without the control file.

Does Oracle 7 not need the control file for recovery?

Currently I'm using Novaback to do backups. However I have to shutdown the database, copy the files to tape, then restart. This is not that big of a problem since the database is inactive at night. Yet if it had to be on line 24 hours a day it could get ugly. Received on Thu Apr 21 1994 - 23:30:29 CEST