Re: Oracle 8i "hot" backups on AlphaVMS?

Hi,

On Tue, 23 Jan 2001 20:43:27 GMT, bakermo_at_swbell.net.yourhat (jjbaker) wrote:

>Greetings,
>
>My team manages AlphaVMS 7.1 on a cluster (4 - 8400's) running Oracle
>7.x for a client. We are about to upgrade to VMS 7.2-1 and the client
>will upgrade to Oracle 8i.
>
>Sometime in the near future the client would like to remove 2 8400's
>from the cluster and run Oracle on UNIX on them. The client's DBAs
>state that "hot backups" of Oracle on VMS is not possible.
>
>Is that true? If not, how can it be done? Can it be done on UNIX and
>NOT VMS????
I'm not sure about 8i (we haven't upgraded yet), but we do hot backups of our oracle database twice per week. You have to make sure you also get the archive logs so you can recover if needed. I'll assume, from conversation from our application vendor, that Oracle is *not* removing this ability on VMS.

If you need more information, let me know and I can get our DBAs to send you some more information.

>
>TIA
>
>
>jjbaker
>
>emails remove .yourhat

Hope that helps.

Dave Harrold

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