[Veritas-bu] I need some additional help to backup oracle.

I also recommend that you use the oracle agent... There is no need to
shut down the databases, and it is much faster.

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Dominik.J.Pietrzykowski at nab.com.au
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11/22/2006 11:39 PM

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Re: [Veritas-bu] I need some additional help to backup oracle.

I recommend you use the agents. They will do cold backups when the
database is free although they will fail
when the DB is busy. So you need to choose a time when the DB will be
quiet and can be quiesced.
Otherwise you need to do hot backups with logs etc. This is what i
recommend.

Ed Wilts <ewilts at ewilts.org>
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23/11/2006 01:14 PM

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Re: [Veritas-bu] I need some additional help to backup oracle.

On 11/22/2006 1:25 PM, Krzys wrote:
> You guys are so much more helpfull than any other place... even with
symantec
> support I dont get that much support as from you guys, but anyway I have

> netbackup and one of the backup clients is running oracle. In my
previous job
> DBA's were doing cold/hot backups and they just dumped files to
directories that
> I then backed up, in this job culture I guess is sligtly different so
DBA's told
> me that this is my job to do backups... So anyway for the cold backup
they
> provided me with stop script to stop oracle databases (I know its not to
good
> and it causes all sorts of problems if database would not came back etc)
But
> despite those aspects what would I need to do to acomplish this task of
backing
> up system with oracle down...

Don't even go there. Believe me, you *will* have issues. You *will*
leave databases down when they're supposed to be up. You *will* be
phoned and yelled at. Your DBAs *will* be phoned and yelled at.

Your previous job's approach is tolerable - it's what we do here today
(until we get the agents into production). The approach they want in
your current job is NOT a good idea. It sucks. It breaks randomly. It
leaves databases down. Don't try it. You'll be sorry.

.../Ed

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Ed Wilts, Mounds View, MN, USA
mailto:ewilts at ewilts.org

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