From: Jay Mehta <jvmehta@mra.ffx.mobil.com>
Subject: Re: DB Backup on HP-UX 10.01
Date: 1996/03/27
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Timo Haatainen <Timo.Haatainen@ttgroup.fi> wrote:
>I have found that fbackup is not a suitable utility for 
>Oracle hot backups. This is because fbackup recognizes 'files 
>in use' during backup and retries backup it again. 
>Needless to say, Oracle-files are usually heavily accessed. So I 
>use tar for db backups (hot ones).
>
>Timo Haatainen

Could you please explain in more details why fbackup is not suitable for 
Oracle hot backup?

Please correct me if I am wrong, but Oracle datafiles are not in use 
during hot backup. Instead redo logs get all the traffic. We use fbackup 
to backup hot as well as cold datafiles on HP/UX 10.

Jay Mehta
DBA