Re: Netware database backup

Leung Cheuk Hang (chleung_at_b2.hkstar.com) wrote:
: We are currently using oracle7 on netware.

We use that also.

: We found out we have to shutdown the database before we can do the
: database Database backup.
: On Netware, we have to shutdown the Database in the console or through
: some window tools. The job have to be down manually.
 

: Hence, we cannot schedule the database backup at night to let the
: computer do it automatically.
 

: Anybody has any idea to automate the Netware Oracle backup ?

We use a utility called novcron.nlm you can schedule to start any nlm. It's in Novells netwire userlib 07 novcro.zip and it's free!
Works quite well we shutdown the database a 1/2 hour before backup and in the morning at 7 o'clock we start it up again.

: Thks,
: Steve Leung (Hong Kong)
: (chleung_at_hkstat.com)
 

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