From: VA Access Newsgroups: comp.databases.oracle.server Subject: Control File Backup Date: Fri, 02 Feb 2001 19:25:39 GMT Organization: Deja.com Lines: 17 Message-ID: <95f1j5$g4s$1@nnrp1.deja.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 208.10.46.19 X-Article-Creation-Date: Fri Feb 02 19:25:39 2001 GMT X-Http-User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.5; Windows NT 5.0) X-Http-Proxy: 1.1 x65.deja.com:80 (Squid/1.1.22) for client 208.10.46.19 X-MyDeja-Info: XMYDJUIDvaaccess Each night I run a process that puts the DB into hot backup mode and then copies the db files to a directory which is backed up a little bit later. Anyway, I noticed that the Control Files are not getting copied correctly, but all the datafile are doing just fine. So, my question is, why? Here's what happens: SQL runs that puts all the tablespaces into backup mode. Then, the copying occurs. Here's a snipit: PLUS33W.EXE sys/PASSWORD@INSTANCE d:\orant\bin\ocopy73 d:\orant\database\CTL1CODA.ORA d:\dba_admin\backup d:\orant\bin\ocopy73 d:\orant\database\LOG1CODA.ORA d:\dba_admin\backup Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/