> 
> Is it possible to run a script automatically (to shutdown 
> oracle services) just before a backup begins?
> 
   Put whatever you like into /usr/openv/netbackupo/bin/bpstart_notify -- but 
just be sure that it doesn't produce any output or NBU will probably get 
confused. (The script was orignally there to do just what you want: close down 
Oracle databases before a backup job ran.)
   Make sure that you also use the bpend_notify script to re-open your 
database(s)!
   I generally just have the /etc/init.d/dbstart script execute from 
bpend_notify (and dbshut from bpstart_notify -- don't get confused here) so 
that I don't have to maintain two parallel scripts.
-wde
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Will Enestvedt
UNIX System Administrator
Johnson & Wales University -- Providence, RI