Path: news.easynews.com!easynews!ps01-sjc1!news.webusenet.com!cyclone.bc.net!arclight.uoregon.edu!wn4feed!wn2feed!worldnet.att.net!204.127.198.204!attbi_feed4!attbi.com!sccrnsc01.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "Jim Kennedy" Newsgroups: comp.databases.oracle.server References: <4463816a.0208080538.68d9181c@posting.google.com> Subject: Re: Ghosting Oracle 8i configurations Lines: 17 X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2600.0000 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: 12.241.212.232 X-Complaints-To: abuse@attbi.com X-Trace: sccrnsc01 1028815447 12.241.212.232 (Thu, 08 Aug 2002 14:04:07 GMT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 08 Aug 2002 14:04:07 GMT Organization: AT&T Broadband Date: Thu, 08 Aug 2002 14:04:07 GMT Xref: easynews comp.databases.oracle.server:157270 X-Received-Date: Thu, 08 Aug 2002 07:01:12 MST (news.easynews.com) If the database isn't running it should work. You are just taking a binary image, why wouldn't it work. Jim "Glen Moffitt" wrote in message news:4463816a.0208080538.68d9181c@posting.google.com... > In lengthy upgrades or installs of MS SQL servers on RAID-5 systems > I've been able to use Ghost to save an image of the server before > moving on to the next major step...saves mucho time :). I'm not as > experienced at Oracle and have been asked to administer an 8i server > on a RAID-5 box that will be used to do some major development & > testing of scripts from a third-party vendor. The vendors technical > rep was not sure Ghosting would work with an 8i system. Has anyone > successfully tried this, if so, with what version of Ghost? > > TIA