Re: Anyone syncing database files?

2004-08-24 Thread Chuck Wolber
On Fri, 20 Aug 2004, Loukinas, Jeremy wrote: Anyone syncing say 18-20gb Oracle dbf files..? We're syncing well over 185 GB of sleepycat BDB files. I'm not sure how well they relate to Oracle files. -Chuck -- http://www.quantumlinux.com Quantum Linux Laboratories, LLC. ACCELERATING

Re: Anyone syncing database files?

2004-08-23 Thread Brian Cuttler
I second that. We backup Oracle on Solaris but we insist that the oracle is down. On Fri, Aug 20, 2004 at 10:48:20PM +0200, Jan-Benedict Glaw wrote: On Fri, 2004-08-20 16:43:07 -0400, Loukinas, Jeremy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Anyone syncing say 18-20gb Oracle dbf

Re: Anyone syncing database files?

2004-08-23 Thread Eric Whiting
You can do a hot backup by simply setting all the tablespaces in backup mode (alter tablespace 'BLAA' begin backup). Then you can rsync the database files and do an 'end backup' on each tablespace after. This will give you files that are consistient and the database will be recoverable from

Re: Anyone syncing database files?

2004-08-21 Thread mlh
On Fri, 20 Aug 2004 22:48:20 +0200 Jan-Benedict Glaw [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 2004-08-20 16:43:07 -0400, Loukinas, Jeremy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Anyone syncing say 18-20gb Oracle dbf files..? No problem--as long as you don't try to backup hot database

Re: Anyone syncing database files?

2004-08-20 Thread Jan-Benedict Glaw
On Fri, 2004-08-20 16:43:07 -0400, Loukinas, Jeremy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Anyone syncing say 18-20gb Oracle dbf files..? No problem--as long as you don't try to backup hot database files. Shutdown Oracle first:) MfG, JBG -- Jan-Benedict Glaw [EMAIL