Hello,

I have a problem here which I solve for now the "bad" way. I want to do a cold 
backup of several Oracle databases, which means that the instances have to be 
stopped. So, via cron, I stop them a full half hour before the backup begins 
and restart them approximately one hour after the backup has completed.

There is NO Oracle client on the server and I don't plan to install one.

So, my question would be: is there a way to tell amdump to execute one or 
several scripts just before the backup begins (and of course, wait that these 
scripts complete)?

Thanks, 
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