Re: Cold backup blues (UNIX)...

From: Tim Irvin <irvin_at_lmsc.lockheed.com>
Date: 1996/08/29
Message-ID: <irvin-2908960753470001_at_butch.lmsc.lockheed.com>#1/1


In article <502rmt$hqb_at_wabbit.its.uow.edu.au>, Phil Herring <revdoc_at_uow.edu.au> wrote:

> You can either edit dbshut so that it does a 'shutdown immediate', or you
> can precede your call to dbshut with a script that closes any open database
> connections. (How you do the latter depends on whether you're using SQL*Net
> V1 or V2, and whether database clients are running on the server.)

Even 'shutdown immediate' isn't bulletproof, at least not on our system. See my previous note for details.

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Received on Thu Aug 29 1996 - 00:00:00 CEST

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