Error 00905: ALTER DATABASE BEGIN BACKUP

From: disco master <harish.pond_at_gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 5 Dec 2007 22:28:14 -0800 (PST)
Message-ID: <3dfd2007-6f9b-4f0b-a8e7-df730fbad1da@s19g2000prg.googlegroups.com>

HI all
I have been working on ORACLE 9i DBA.
when i am trying to take backup i am getting this error

sql > conn / as sysdba
> startup mount
> alter database begin backup

                                 *

error line 3: * missing keyword
error 00905

Can any body help me to solve this problem

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Harish Received on Thu Dec 06 2007 - 00:28:14 CST