On 11/19/2006 7:52 AM, Krzys wrote:
> Hello everyone, I have a question, I am new to netbackup still and I am doing 
> some progress. I did install on my linux boxes clients and now I am 
> sucessfuly 
> backing them up, now the next step that I want to try is to backup oracle. I 
> know that there are different ways of doing oracle backup but I was told by 
> my 
> DBa that previous admin was given stop and start scripts and he took care of 
> the 
> rest, but I have no idea how to use those stop and start scripts with 
> netbackup 
> to bring oracle down and then start after backup is completed. Anyone has any 
> hints? WHen I looked up on the server side in policy settings I did see 
> options 
> for oracle rman backups but my DBa says that we dont use rman to back up any 
> databases... Where could I get more info? any one has any suggestions...

Having NetBackup automatically stop and start Oracle is extremely 
error-prone.  There will be times when the database will not start up 
due to a variety of errors that can occur at various times of the backups.

We don't use agents and I got called an hour ago by a DBA and we don't 
even have stop/start scripts called by NetBackup!  He still thought it 
was our fault that the database was down.

Use an Oracle agent.  Seriously.

        .../Ed

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Ed Wilts, Mounds View, MN, USA
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