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How does one take a hot database backup on NT?

April 26, 2017backup database hot NT

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How does one take a hot database backup on NT?

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You need to use the Oracle OCOPYxx.EXE utility on Windows NT to backup open database files (e.g. do a hotbackup). The NTBACKUP command will not backup open files. Also, OCOPYxx.exe (e.g. OCOPY80.EXE distributed with Oracle8.0) will not backup files to tape, only to another disk location. Once the hotbackup to disk is complete, you can use the NTBACKUP utility to backup the files to tape. Note: If you perform a hot backup your databases must run in archivelog mode, otherwise shutdown and do a cold backup.