Re: "Thou shalt use 'Shutdown Abort' whenever you shutdown the database." Makes sense?
Date: 1997/05/08
Message-ID: <337271F4.69BE_at_mindspring.com>#1/1
Steve Phelan wrote:
>
> > yes, I fully agree, shutdown normal is useless, shutdown immediate
> > is not
> > reliable... shutdown abort is the only option that does the job...
> >
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> > Nilo Segura Chinchilla * e-mail
> > nilo.segura_at_cern.ch
> > Computing and Network Division *
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> > European Laboratory for Particle Physics * phone +41 +22 7674943
>
> Sorry, I have to disagree here... :-)
>
> We have a shell script which fires of every night without problem to
> perform our cold backups: It checks for connected Oracle sessions first,
> and kills off (with the *UNIX kill* command, and *not an Oracle kill
> session command*) any sessions it finds; it then pauses for 60 seconds,
> then performs a shutdown immediate. This script has worked fine for 4
> years on two different sites, both of which were UNIX based (HP-UX and
> AIX).
>
> Steve Phelan.