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

Possibly looking at this from the wrong angle (fairly new to Oracle & it's mysteries)- but what about running RMAN???

Neil.

"Alan Greig" <agreig_at_my-deja.com> wrote in message news:krct6tcvb816327ak8nj0hgpb4vu5uhiro_at_4ax.com...
> 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
>
> --
> Alan Greig
Received on Fri Jan 26 2001 - 16:41:21 CET