Hi I had a very nice script written years ago to shutdown a DB and take a
cold back up and restart the DB
This used Svrmgr connect internal which fell away with 9i.

Does anyone know of a work around , am trying sqlplus xxx/xxxx 'as sysdba'
but not getting far, just frustrated.
I also tried net stop oracleservice but this times out and the copy starts
before the db is shutdown


Any ideas would be welcome

Many Thanks
Miles



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