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

Perhaps that should be "fstab me in the heart"

ws

<< What if there were no hypothetical questions? >>

Warren Spencer
Senior Software Engineer
The Associated Press

• My employer does not necessarily agree with my statements **

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bakermo_at_swbell.net.yourpants (skulker) wrote in <NpFd6.32$nD1.3615_at_nnrp1.sbc.net>:

>I have since been corrected by the DBAs. They never said hot backups
>were not possible.
>
>They said they meant to say hot bacups direct to tape on VMS is not
>possible using RMAN.
>
>Their team lead insists they use RMAN. SLS and ABS do NOT have the hooks
>to RMAN. I am investigating legato client for VMS.
>
>Anyone know if legato on VMS will interface with RMAN allowing direct to
>tape hot backups? I would hate to change to UNIX from VMS (stab me in
>the heart!).
>
>skulker
>email replies remove .yourpants
>
>>Hi,
>>
>>Unless there's a bug in the Oracle 8.x, hot backups should work fine.
>>You might consider upgrading your dba's, rather than downgrading the
>>operating system.
>>
>>ws
>>
>>--
>><< What if there were no hypothetical questions? >>
>>
>>Warren Spencer
>>Senior Software Engineer
>>The Associated Press
>>
>>** My employer does not necessarily agree with my statements **
>>
>>
>>_________
>>bakermo_at_swbell.net.yourhat (jjbaker) wrote in <3a6dec0d.17231959
>>_at_news.swbell.net>:
>>
>>>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.
>>>
>>>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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Received on Thu Feb 01 2001 - 21:04:42 CET