Re: Oracle 8i "hot" backups on AlphaVMS?

On Tue, 23 Jan 2001 20:43:27 GMT, bakermo_at_swbell.net.yourhat (jjbaker) wrote:

>Greetings,
>
>My team manages AlphaVMS 7.1 on a cluster (4 - 8400's) running Oracle
>7.x for a client. We are about to upgrade to VMS 7.2-1 and the client
>will upgrade to Oracle 8i.
>
>Sometime in the near future the client would like to remove 2 8400's
>from the cluster and run Oracle on UNIX on them. The client's DBAs
>state that "hot backups" of Oracle on VMS is not possible.

Others have answered this but perhaps your client should seriously worry about their DBAs. If they are this clueless their backups on current systems might be unusable.

>Is that true? If not, how can it be done? Can it be done on UNIX and
>NOT VMS????
>
>TIA
>
>
>jjbaker
>
>emails remove .yourhat

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Alan Greig