Nothing is essential to networker here, however, it may be essential to your 
oracle DBA.  The "standard" directives from the networker installation should 
be used as templates and customized to your situation.  Know what you are 
backing up and know what should be included/excluded and act accordingly.  I 
had an example of excluding "dev" which are device directories in the *nix 
world.  Of course I had one user have "dev" in a directory tree that needed a  
recovery.  Doh!  You are already ahead of the game by reviewing and asking.  
The question needs to go to your DBA.

Patti Clark
DOE/OSTI

> -----Original Message-----
> From: EMC NetWorker discussion 
> [mailto:NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU] On Behalf Of Stefan Seibt
> Sent: Friday, October 30, 2009 8:34 AM
> To: NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU
> Subject: [Networker] Backup of Oracle Database with 
> Networker: Missing Files ?
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> performing a standard file system backup with networker,
> one could use a directive called "standard UNIX directive".
> One of the entries in this directive is to skip files named "core".
> No problem - noone wants coredumps saved.
> 
> But yesterday i saw some directories under ORACLE_HOME named "core".
> As expected, these are NOT saved with networker.
> 
> Here is my Question: Are these directories essential for networker
> and worth saving? Is this a bug in networker?
> 
> These directories are (in Oracle 10g):
> bash-3.0RACLE_HOME $ find . -name core
> ./oc4j/j2ee/oc4j_applications/applications/isqlplus/isqlplus/WEB-
> INF/classes/oracle/sqlplus/iplus/core
> ./sysman/admin/emdrep/sql/core
> ./sysman/patches/5557962/files/sysman/admin/emdrep/sql/core
> ./.patch_storage/5557962_Nov_9_2006_23_23_06/backup/sysman/adm
> in/emdrep/sql/core
> ./.patch_storage/5557962_Nov_9_2006_23_23_06/original_patch/fi
> les/sysman/admin/emdrep/s
> ql/core
> ./.patch_storage/5557962_Nov_9_2006_23_23_06/files/sysman/admi
> n/emdrep/sql/core
> 
>       best regards 
>               Stefan
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