Oracle agent, is that some additional software I need to download and install?
or is it already installed in my backup server/slient installation but I just
need to enable it on a server with a license?
Thanks.
Chris
On Sun, 26 Nov 2006, ckstehman at pepco.com wrote:
> 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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> 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.
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> Ed Wilts <ewilts at ewilts.org>
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> 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
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>> 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...
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> .../Ed
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