"Stigers, Greg [And]" wrote:

> Oh, my. I don't think that you meant to send this to the list...
>
> But Oracle. My, did we have a time with shutting down Oracle cleanly for
> backup. Our symptoms were that Oracle would not respond after the backup.
> Presumably, some Oracle files were not being backed up as well, but turns
> out that the party responsible for monitoring this was not. We have come up
> with something that does work, if you are interested.

O shxx.  Apologies to the list. I did not mean to send the earlier message
related my my backup problems to the list, it was intended for our Solution
Providers Help Desk.  I guess it really was a late night/early morning. Now I
know why they haven't responded !

regards

Shane.

ps as my little girl would say..'daddy are your bones getting old ?'. She might
just be right today.

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Shane Devereaux
Manager Information Systems
Mudgee Shire Council
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