Mike Vasquez wrote: > What I want to do is to stop the Oracle database on a remote HP-UX machine > and then run a full backup and then restart the Oracle database.
While it's not strictly an answer to your question, you might want to at least consider using a different backup methodology for Oracle that doesn't require the pre and post scripts: http://wiki.bacula.org/doku.php?id=application_specific_backups#oracle_10g_release_2 -- Frank Sweetser fs at wpi.edu | For every problem, there is a solution that WPI Senior Network Engineer | is simple, elegant, and wrong. - HL Mencken GPG fingerprint = 6174 1257 129E 0D21 D8D4 E8A3 8E39 29E3 E2E8 8CEC ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users