RE: may not be necessary -- was RE: Oracle DB Backups on SAN

2003-03-29 Thread Hemant K Chitale
Chris, What I plan to do is to issue the series of ALTER TABLESPACE BEGIN BACKUP commands, to cover all the tablespaces, _before_ the Snaphshot is created and then issue the ALTER TABLESPACE END BACKUP commands, without using the ALTER SYSTEM SUSPEND. I will be referring to

RE: may not be necessary -- was RE: Oracle DB Backups on SAN with

2003-03-28 Thread Sarnowski, Chris
not be necessary -- was RE: Oracle DB Backups on SAN with Jeremiah / Deborah, My understanding is/was that the Snapshot creation wasn't atomic -- it can take a little bit of time and, therefore, it becomes necessary to suspend I/O. Now, I haven't had a chance yet to speak to the Sun/Hitachi