RE: UNIX SCRIPT

From: Bellows, Bambi <BBellows_at_usg.com>
Date: Fri, 15 Feb 2002 10:14:57 -0800
Message-ID: <F001.00411421.20020215101411@fatcity.com>

Here's basically what you need to do:

Write a script which determines which files to backup (hit the DBA and V$ tables)
Shutdown the database
Once you have those files, use them as a driver in a for|while loop (for each file,
Check if it's raw or UFS if [ raw ] then use dd to backup else use whatever you want (dd|cpio|tar) to backup to disk|tape write in the logfile what time you started this file copy
if success, write to log else try again and write to log
Startup the database

This can, and should, all be in one script. You can schedule this script to kick off at midnight.

You can have another script, which you kick off to start at 5 which

1)  Checks to see whether the first script is running
2)  If it is, kill it and all its subprocesses
3)  Write to the first one's log file that it was killed at 5AM
4)  Start up the database

As for what the commands are to do all this, they are both easy and time/space consuming to spell out, so I'll leave it to you. It seems to me that you are asking for a backup script. There is a book from Oracle Press on Oracle backups where you can type it in line by line from the book.

Have fun!
Bambi.
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Sent: Friday, February 15, 2002 11:25 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L

HI LIST, I AM LOOKING FOR A SCRIPT TO MAKE A COLD BACKUP FOR ORACLE 8.1.6 ON SunOS 5.7.
I want to schedule this script to shutdown the database at mid night and make a backup then start it up at 5:00 AM. Any URL or link or any document it will be very helpful.

Hamid Alavi
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