Hi,

A funny thing happened on the way to the forum....

As chance would have it, I had to restore the database I discussed in my
part of this thread.  The recovery worked without a hitch.

Thanks to Darren Dunham for the reminder about BCV volumes not being
completely a all-files-at-one-instance-in-time snapshot.

In summary, if backing up an Oracle database and not using the Networker
modules, your choices are basically two:

1. Take the database offline and do a cold backup, ie backup the
database when it isn't running.

2. Put the database in hotbackup mode (put the tablespace in backup
mode) and then let Legato backup the database files.  You'll get warning
messages that file X changed during backup, but thats okay.  When Legato
is done, take the database out of hotbackup mode.  To recover this
database, however, you MUST have the archive logs that were generated
while the database was in hotbackup mode.  A good way to do this is to,
after Legato is done backing up the database files and the database has
been taken out of hotbackup mode, have Legato backup your archive log
files. A good article I found on this is
http://www.unixreview.com/documents/s=1442/urm0110m

--
Craig Ruefenacht
UNIX Systems Administrator
USANA Health Sciences
http://www.usana.com

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