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> 
Sent by: veritas-bu-bounces at mailman.eng.auburn.edu
23/11/2006 01:14 PM

To
Krzys <krzys at perfekt.net>
cc
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Subject
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


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


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