Shutdown Immed. and copying the files should be the way to go.
Shutdown(normal) may not work if people are working.

Alok Kumar
OCP-DBA(7.3/8/8i)


-----Original Message-----
From: Sissi Malek [mailto:[Email Address Removed] Thursday, January 31, 2002 10:27 AM
To: LazyDBA.com Discussion
Subject: URGENT- SHUTDOWN AND STARTUP DB


Guys,
I have a question, my DB is in Archive log mode. I
need to make a cold backup of the system. Can I just
do shutdown and wait for the system to shutdown and
make a NT COPY of the whole DB structure on another
machine and do:
STARTUP again? If shutdown takes long time, can I just
do shutdown immediate? Or this type of shutdown is not
good for cold backup?

Thanks,

--
Sissi


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