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
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