John, seeing as your e-mail name is "Ora NT DBA", you probably should have qualified your reply with "as long as the DB is down". Backing up live Oracle files on Windows (even NTFS) is a recipe for disaster due to locking problems (with the OS/filesystem or the backup software, I'm not sure). We had this problem long ago and was such a pain that we dumped Oracle7 from Winders to Unix and haven't looked back.
Rich Jesse System/Database Administrator [EMAIL PROTECTED] Quad/Tech International, Sussex, WI USA -----Original Message----- Sent: Friday, September 20, 2002 1:30 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L I agree, there is never a problem because you backed up redo log files. There could be a problem with inadvertently restoring them, covering up needed information in the current online redo logs. John -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com -- Author: Jesse, Rich INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fat City Network Services -- 858-538-5051 http://www.fatcity.com San Diego, California -- Mailing list and web hosting services --------------------------------------------------------------------- To REMOVE yourself from this mailing list, send an E-Mail message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (note EXACT spelling of 'ListGuru') and in the message BODY, include a line containing: UNSUB ORACLE-L (or the name of mailing list you want to be removed from). You may also send the HELP command for other information (like subscribing).
