Re: Hot backups for Oracle 7/Solaris
Date: 1995/12/23
Message-ID: <ngreene.819687952_at_houws001.shl.com>#1/1
Rich Moldovan <richmo_at_azstarnet.com> writes:
>I currently have been assigned the task of backing up an recently
Rich:
Be VERY VERY VERFY careful NFS mounting your Oracle datafiles. You are headed
toward some problems with datafile corruption if/when anything goes wrong
between the two systems.
I guess my next question would be, if your 2gb datafile is 98% empty, then why
is it 2GB?
>started Oracle data base. Oracle 7 is running on a Sparc/Solaris
>platform and the data files reside on an NFS mounted drive. The
>NFS server is an Auspex file server running SunOS 4.1.3. We already
>have tape backup facilities on the Auspex. My problem is - since
>the database is serving a 24hour/7day manufacturing facility, it is
>impracticle to shut the database down for cold backups. It seems
>ludicrous to backup a 2 gig data file that is 98% empty at this
>point. Does anyone have any recomendations for this situation.
--
Neil Greene
Senior Oracle DBA / Unix System Administrator
SHL Systemhouse, Inc. LA Outsourcing Center
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Neil Greene
Senior Oracle DBA / Unix System Administrator
SHL Systemhouse, Inc. LA Outsourcing Center
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Received on Sat Dec 23 1995 - 00:00:00 CET