Steps for Cold Backup..

Hi,
I am new for DBA, i need to take cold backup, can some help me what are all step (commands) i need to follow to perform the successful cold backup.
Advance Thanks
Suresh

Hi Suresh,
A cold backup is very simple.Hope your Database is test or Development or practise one,If it is production Database You have inform users for suitable downtime depending on size of your Database. You have to peform these basic steps,Which I'm doing it for you:
Step 1:Find the location of all the physical file(Datafiles,controlfiles,redologs):
For Datafile:
SQL> select file_name||' '||tablespace_name||' '||bytes from dba_data_files;
FILE_NAME||''||TABLESPACE_NAME||''||BYTES
D:\ORADATA\BOSCHDB\USER123.DBF USER123 104857600
D:\ORADATA\BOSCHDB\EXAMPLE01.DBF EXAMPLE 104857600
D:\ORADATA\BOSCHDB\USERS01.DBF USERS 5242880
D:\ORADATA\BOSCHDB\SYSAUX01.DBF SYSAUX 304087040
D:\ORADATA\BOSCHDB\UNDOTBS01.DBF UNDOTBS1 26214400
D:\ORADATA\BOSCHDB\SYSTEM01.DBF SYSTEM 513802240
For logfile:
SQL> select group#||' '||member from v$logfile;
GROUP#||''||MEMBER
3 D:\ORADATA\BOSCHDB\REDO03.LOG
2 D:\ORADATA\BOSCHDB\REDO02.LOG
1 D:\ORADATA\BOSCHDB\REDO01.LOG
SQL> sho parameter %control%
NAME TYPE VALUE
control_file_record_keep_time integer 7
control_files string D:\ORADATA\BOSCHDB\CONTROL01.C
TL, D:\ORADATA\BOSCHDB\CONTROL
02.CTL, D:\ORADATA\BOSCHDB\CON
TROL03.CTL
Step 2: Shutdown the database (IMMEDIATE or NORMAL option):
SQL> shutdown immediate
Database closed.
Database dismounted.
ORACLE instance shut down.
Step 3: Use OS commands or utilities to copy the database datafiles and control files to your backup destination:
Note 1:Make sure this Backup destination is having enough space
Note 2:If you are doing in any unix flavour use command cp
D:\oradata\BoschDB>copy /b *.DBF D:\TESTDB_BACKUP
EXAMPLE01.DBF
SYSAUX01.DBF
SYSTEM01.DBF
TEMP01.DBF
UNDOTBS01.DBF
USER123.DBF
USERS01.DBF
7 file(s) copied.
D:\oradata\BoschDB>copy /b *.LOG D:\TESTDB_BACKUP
REDO01.LOG
REDO02.LOG
REDO03.LOG
3 file(s) copied.
D:\oradata\BoschDB>copy /b *.CTL D:\TESTDB_BACKUP
CONTROL01.CTL
CONTROL02.CTL
CONTROL03.CTL
3 file(s) copied.
Step 3. Startup the database.
SQL> startup
ORACLE instance started.
Total System Global Area 289406976 bytes
Fixed Size 1248600 bytes
Variable Size 130024104 bytes
Database Buffers 155189248 bytes
Redo Buffers 2945024 bytes
Database mounted.
Database opened.
Step 4:Verify your Backup.
D:\>cd TESTDB_BACKUP
D:\TESTDB_BACKUP>dir
Volume in drive D is PEACY_DATA
Volume Serial Number is 9CAF-C076
Directory of D:\TESTDB_BACKUP
02/25/2011 11:00 AM <DIR> .
02/25/2011 11:00 AM <DIR> ..
02/23/2011 12:15 PM <DIR> Archives
02/25/2011 10:53 AM 7,389,184 CONTROL01.CTL
02/25/2011 10:53 AM 7,389,184 CONTROL02.CTL
02/25/2011 10:53 AM 7,389,184 CONTROL03.CTL
02/25/2011 10:53 AM 104,865,792 EXAMPLE01.DBF
02/25/2011 10:53 AM 52,429,312 REDO01.LOG
02/25/2011 10:53 AM 52,429,312 REDO02.LOG
02/25/2011 10:53 AM 52,429,312 REDO03.LOG
02/25/2011 10:53 AM 304,095,232 SYSAUX01.DBF
02/25/2011 10:53 AM 513,810,432 SYSTEM01.DBF
02/10/2011 10:03 PM 20,979,712 TEMP01.DBF
02/25/2011 10:53 AM 26,222,592 UNDOTBS01.DBF
02/25/2011 10:53 AM 104,865,792 USER123.DBF
02/25/2011 10:53 AM 5,251,072 USERS01.DBF
13 File(s) 1,259,546,112 bytes
3 Dir(s) 2,820,775,936 bytes free
Hope it helps.
Best regards,
Rafi.
http://rafioracledba.blogspot.com

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