From: rwh@visi.com (Richard Hoffbeck) Subject: Re: Hot Backups on NT Date: 1997/06/06 Message-ID: #1/1 Sender: rwh@tc1-43.sihope.com References: <1997Jun3.152929.98914@cc.usu.edu> Organization: MWCIA NNTP-Posting-Date: 06 Jun 1997 14:27:38 CDT Newsgroups: comp.databases.oracle.server [This followup was posted to comp.databases.oracle.server and a copy was sent to the cited author.] In article <1997Jun3.152929.98914@cc.usu.edu>, slqpm@cc.usu.edu says... > I have attemped to do HOT backups of our Oracle 7.3 server. I > place the appropriate tablespace in backup mode and then started NT's > backup application (NTBACKUP). The backup application will not touch > the files since they are open by another application. > > How are you then to do hot backups? We need to be up 24x7 and > have about 14 gig of data files to archive, cold backups would require > a significat amount of down time. > > We are running NT 3.5 on a Dec Alpha and Oracle 7.3 Server. There is a registry parameter that can be set to get backup to back up files that show up as being 'in use'. --rick