Re: Hot backups on Digital Alpha

Dennis Williams (104052.3374_at_CompuServe.COM) wrote:
: We are a Digital Alpha ( Digital Unix 3.2C) shop running a
: medium-size Oracle database and would like to move to hot
: backups. Currently we stop all Oracle instances, perform a cold
: backup using tar and restart the instances. We would like to move
: to hot backups, but have felt that tar is not adequate for this
: purpose. Because Digital Unix is pretty new, few vendors have
: ported to it and the Digital tools seem pretty sparse. I would be
: interested in hearing from anyone who has evaluated the tools
: like Polycenter or is currently doing hot backups, and how you
: are doing them.
: Thank you.
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: Dennis Williams Lifetouch Inc.
: 104052.3374_at_ compuserve.com
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 I have written a set of korn shell scripts to do both hot and cold  backup from cron. I would be glad to share. They are in a 250k tar.  I can ftp.
 Glad to help

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