Re: Hot Backups on NT

From: Timo Haatainen <timoha_at_mylly.carel.fi>
Date: 1997/06/04
Message-ID: <33955C10.FF@mylly.carel.fi>#1/1

Calvin N. Slater wrote:
>
> I have attemped to do HOT backups of our Oracle 7.3 server. I
> place the appropriate tablespace in backup mode and then started NT's
> backup application (NTBACKUP). The backup application will not touch
> the files since they are open by another application.
>
> How are you then to do hot backups? We need to be up 24x7 and
> have about 14 gig of data files to archive, cold backups would require
> a significat amount of down time.
>
> We are running NT 3.5 on a Dec Alpha and Oracle 7.3 Server.
>
> Thanks

Try GNU tar for WinNT. Check out http://www.gnu.ai.mit.edu/

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Timo Haatainen
Carelcomp Forest Oy

Received on Wed Jun 04 1997 - 00:00:00 CDT