Re: Backup on Netware

Jonathan Gennick wrote:
>
> On Thu, 23 Apr 1998 15:46:48 -0500, Jim Anderson
> <anderson_at_ci.lincoln.ne.us> wrote:
>
> >Someone in our department was told by Oracle support that on Netware you
> >must not only shutdown the database but unload the NLM's in order to get
> >a clean backup of a database. Anyone else have information on this? It
> >doesn't make sense to me. If the database is shutdown, no writes to the
> >db can occur so the backup should be clean.
>
> Huh. Now you've got me a bit worried. We also shutdown the
> database, but do not unload the NLMs. Maybe this would be a
> good excuse to test our restore procedure<g>.

We run Oracle v7.2.2.4.13 and v7.3.2.3.1. On the v7.2.x version, you must unload the NLMs, because Netware sometimes holds file locks on some files after shutdown, and you might not get a good copy. On v7.3.x, you do not have to unload the NLMs, for all file lock problems have been resolved.

HTH Regards

//Karl

Karl M. Nordquist		karln_at_brightwood.com
Application Development         
Bright Wood Corporation         Madras, Oregon
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