Re: Poor Backup Strategy???

From: Helge Petersen <petersen_at_com1.dwhl.de>
Date: 1996/01/12
Message-ID: <petersen.821426544_at_com1.dwhl.de>#1/1


Steve Butler <sbut-is_at_seatimes.com> writes:

>On 10 Jan 1996, Glenn Burton wrote:
>> The system administrators of one of the systems I work with do not shut down
>> the Oracle instance to take a cold backup. Instead they simply copy the
 

>If they follow the approved hot backup strategy then everything should be

      ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

>fine. This strategy flags the database that indicated tablespaces are
>being copied. The database will then re-synch the thread counters in the
>tablespace header when the script indicates the backup is finished (with
>the ALTER command).

Note that this means you MUST use

ALTER TABLESPACE xxx BEGIN BACKUP;
host tar .... (or cp or cpio or ...)
ALTER TABLESPACE xxx END BACKUP;

for EVERY tablespace.

And you MUST run your instance in ARCHIVE LOG modus and you MUST backup the archived redologs.

Hope this helps.


Helge Petersen                          Datenbase- und Systemadministrator
Draeger Synematic GmbH                  D-23558 Luebeck, Germany
Tel. 0451/882-4044   Fax -3031          Email petersen_at_dwhl.de
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