Yes, I forgot to mention that the Oracle databases are running on 
Solaris 8 on Sun Fire 6900s. So I guess the RMAN will automatically pick 
up the changes (new libraries etc)?

Thanks,

Rongsheng

ckstehman AT pepco DOT com wrote:
> 
> If your Oracle is on Solaris, you should not need to bounce the database 
> to do an upgrade.  If on HP-UX or Tru64 you may have to shuddown the 
> database.
> At least that worked with 5.1MP6.  
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> *Rongsheng Fang <unixlifebox AT gmail DOT com>*
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>       [Veritas-bu] NetBackup MP level upgrade for Oracle, must bounce?
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> Hi,
> 
> We have a NetBackup 5.0 backup environment which includes a master
> server currently running 5.0 MP5 on RHEL and a couple of Oracle database
> servers which all have NetBackup for Oracle 5.0GA installed. The
> NetBackup patch levels between the master server and the database
> servers are not consistent (it's been like this since i got here). So I
> would like to bring everything up to MP7. Since we have a dozen of very
> critical production databases running on two of the servers I'll be
> patching and it'd be almost impossible to bounce these databases all at
> once after the MP patches are applied, so I am thinking to apply these
> MP patches first and then individually bounce the databases one by one
> whenever we get a downtime for them. Here is my question:
> 
> What would happen if the Oracle database didn't get bounced right after
> the MP patches are applied? Will it still run on the old library or it
> will simply break?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Rongsheng
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