Issue using SVRMGRL in Oracle 8i
Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2001 01:09:43 GMT
Message-ID: <rfM47.493766$eK2.102194054_at_news4.rdc1.on.home.com>
Good Afternoon,
I'm a not yet comfortable with administering Oracle 8i, so please forgive
the simplicity of my posting. We are currently running Oracle 8i Release
8.1.7.0.0 on Windows NT 4.0 (service pack 5), and I'm attempting to
configure the ARCServe "Oracle Agent" in order to perform complete, system
wide recovery. As some of you may realize, ARCHIVELOG mode must be enabled
in order for this backup mechanism to run correctly. As a result, I opened a
SVRMGR command window, and verified that ARCHIVELOG mode was *not* enabled
by entering the command "Archive log list". According to the instructions
provided by Computer Associates (vendor of ARCServe 2000), a series of
commands must be entered in order to enable ARCHIVELOG mode. The ARCServe
documentation recommended the following:
(a) At the svrmgr prompt, type the following : "shutdown abort" (in order to
"startup mount database"
Nevertheless, after having issued the "shutdown abort" command, I'm unable
to startup the database. For example, when I type "startup mount <name of
(b) The user must now reconnect to Oracle using the internal account; once
reconnected, type the following series of commands:
"alter database archivelog"
"alter database open"
" archive log start"