Tracking the logical backups' success

DB version:10.2.0.4
OS : Solaris 5.10
We have 45 schemas in one of our critical production DBs.
Apart from the RMAN backups, we take logical backups of all the business related 45 schemas.
A shell script is dynamically generated and executed every day to take EXP backups of all these 45 schemas
I need to create a PL/SQL code or Shell script which will notify us through email if any of the EXP commands have failed.
What is the 'professional' way to do this? We already have the Email sending PL/SQL procedure ready.

Y.Ramlet wrote:
Will Enterprise Manager send mails when individual schemas's backups have failed ?EM would send mail when the requested job is failed and you have configured another , backup job which would run and send an email. So the answer would be IMO, it depends .
HTH
Aman....

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thanks a lot for guided me,
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Revision: 5839
Author: [email protected]
Date: 2009-04-01 10:34:31 -0700 (Wed, 01 Apr 2009)
Log Message:
* Removed the logic that tracked when cached SWC had been removed from
the library path, because it wasn't working correctly in some cases
and it is no longer necessary due to revision 5524.
tests Passed: checkintests, performance testsuite, FlexBuilder
outputFolder JUnit tests
Needs QA: YES
Needs DOC: NO
API Change: NO
Reviewer: Pete F.
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CompilerSwcContext.java
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CompilerAPI.java
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SwcCache.java
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code that initialized them.
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flex/sdk/trunk/modules/compiler/src/java/flex2/compiler/CompilerAPI.java
flex/sdk/trunk/modules/compiler/src/java/flex2/compiler/CompilerSwcContext.java
flex/sdk/trunk/modules/compiler/src/java/flex2/compiler/swc/SwcCache.java
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Revision: 5839
Author: [email protected]
Date: 2009-04-01 10:34:31 -0700 (Wed, 01 Apr 2009)
Log Message:
* Removed the logic that tracked when cached SWC had been removed from
the library path, because it wasn't working correctly in some cases
and it is no longer necessary due to revision 5524.
tests Passed: checkintests, performance testsuite, FlexBuilder
outputFolder JUnit tests
Needs QA: YES
Needs DOC: NO
API Change: NO
Reviewer: Pete F.
Code-level description of changes:
CompilerSwcContext.java
Removed updateRemovedSources() and it's usage.
CompilerAPI.java
Removed deleteRemovedSwcSources(), renamed
deleteObsoletedSwcSources() to reportObsoletedSwcSources(), and
deleteShadowedSwcSources() to reportShadowedSwcSources().
Updated validateCompilationUnits() to no longer report
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SwcCache.java
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flex/sdk/trunk/modules/compiler/src/java/flex2/compiler/CompilerAPI.java
flex/sdk/trunk/modules/compiler/src/java/flex2/compiler/CompilerSwcContext.java
flex/sdk/trunk/modules/compiler/src/java/flex2/compiler/swc/SwcCache.java
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Keystation Pro 88 (or other controller) as the Logic Control

Has anybody got their setup like this? I've been trying to get this to work for the past 6 hours and no luck. Can someone please help me? Just bought Studio 2 days ago and haven't touched it yet cuz I can't get the keyboard to fully work.
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Location: Los Angeles
Posted: Sun Jul 15, 2007 12:03 am Post subject: Keystation Pro 88 (or other controller) as the Logic Control
I'm sure some of you already know how to do this. I just figured I'd write this up at some point to share with others. The basic idea is to use the Keystaion Pro 88 (or some other MIDI Controller) as an actual Control Surface, or in this case the Logic Control, to have more freedom with the MIDI Controller, i.e. using the group of 8 faders (on the Keystation) to control Volume for tracks 1-8 in the arrange window, and then hitting Bank Right to automatically control tracks 9-16, and as a result making a universal controller not bound by specific channel messages, or MIDI CC Volume messages etc... in short the essence of any Control Surface.
What I'm describing below is what this app will also do: http://www.opuslocus.com/lcxmu/index.php
I basically just wanted to avoid using a separate application all together. Keep in mind that the app does simplify the whole process, but Logic inherently can do pretty much everything the app does.
I recommend reading this in its entirety before attempting.
KeyStation Pro 88 as Logic Control
Part One: Add Logic Control as Control Surface
1. Open Logic.
2. Preferences / Control Surfaces / Setup...
3. New / Install / Select your preferred device (in my case Logic Control
4. Click the icon in the setup window for the Logic Control.
5. On the left hand side under "Logic Control" you should see an "Out Port:" and "Input:" ... select the desired MIDI in/out through which your device is connected.
6. Open Preferences / Control Surfaces / Controller Assignments. Make sure you select the "EXPERT VIEW" check box.
7. You should now see a bunch of different Zones in the Zone column, one of which is "Control Surface: Logic Control"
8. Create your own Zone, KeyStation Pro 88 (or whatever) using the Plus sign in the bottom left corner of the Controller Assignments window.
9. Now basically go through the existing parameters already available in the Logic Control Zones, Select what you want. You can select entire Modes or individual Controls / Parameters. You can select multiple values (only multiple Control / Parameters NOT modes) by selecting and dragging or simply with select and holding command.
10. Command-C the selected Modes and then click back onto you user zone that you created above.
11. Click inside the Mode column (or Control / Parameter column depending upon what you selected and copied from the Logic Control zones).
12. Command-V to paste the Modes into your user Zone.
13. Do this for as many Modes / Controls you want, that your specific MIDI controller interface will be able to handle.
Part Two: Assigning Input Values
1. Open Preferences / Control Surfaces / Controller Assignments
2. Now for each parameter that you copied, you will need to set the input MIDI value from your controller.
3. Click on your User Zone, then Mode, then the first parameter in the 3rd column.
4. You should see a "MIDI Input" option (this should already be set correctly as long as you set it earlier in Step 5 of Part One). If it's not set to the correct MIDI input (which I found to be the case sometimes even after Step 5), then change that here.
5. Next to "Value Change:" you will see a box with MIDI data in it. Delete the existing date by highlight and delete.
6. Activate "Learn Mode" (bottom right corner of Controller Assignments window) then click within the "Value Change" box, then move the corresponding fader, button etc. The "Value Change" should now show the MIDI data value for that fader. Be careful here, there should only be 3 groups of 2 for data here... if you see 2 groups, of 3 groups, of 2 then typically the FIRST group of 3 should be the value you want here. You can always delete the data, and move the fader again to be sure. The reason for the 2 groups of 3 is not in error: some buttons send TWO MIDI values, one on press and one on release. You can use this to your advantage and assign TWO different functions to these buttons, thus the first (press hold) value can do one thing and the second (release) value can do another. You can also change the MIDI controller to only send 1 message on press and nothing on release, or simply make sure that only the on value is present in the "Value Change" box.
7. You'll have to do this for all the different knobs / faders etc. on your MIDI controller. There are many shortcuts of course. You can manually type in the Values if you know them. For the Keystation Pro, M-Audio has an app called Enigma that I recommend for changing controller parameters and much more on the Keystation. You can use this app to assign all the actual control data that each button or fader sends to the sequencer, once you know the values you can convert that data to the MIDI data values and enter them into the Value Change box.
8. Once you're done assigning values to the controllers, you can delete all the Zones except for the user Zone you created earlier. Before you do this, it's a good idea to back up the Control Surface preference file just in case you ever want to grab something else from the Logic Control Zones. You could always add a second Logic Control and copy the Zone from that, but you'd have to reassign all the MIDI Input: values ... short version, just back up the preference file before you delete the Zones. The reason why you want to delete the Zones that you're not using is simply because if you have a controller that happens to send out MIDI data to the sequencer, and the actual Logic Control happens to have that MIDI data value already inherent it it's Zones, then you could be asking for trouble, simply put you'd be sending MIDI data to change Volume and the Logic Control maybe has that MIDI Data Value already assigned to Pan for the existing track.
The file to backup is located here: ~Users/username/Library/Preferences/Logic/com.apple.logic.pro.cs
As a precaution I have always backed up my Logic Preference file WITH this .cs file. Technically it's not necessary... for instance: Let's say you trash your preferences and open Logic to find that the Logic Control is missing from the Control Surfaces Setup. So you add it back and now you find out that Logic is missing the User Zone that you created. If you close Logic and copy the .cs file back to the directory above, then upon reopening Logic you should find your User Zone is in place again. But I've had mixed results with that, so just in case I copy over the preference file with the .cs file as a pair. It seems that the Logic pref file only contains information that the Logic Control is a Control Surface on your system and the .cs file is the preferences for that specific Surface.
Another note: after a recent Logic update, maybe 7.2? ... it was whichever update added support for more Control Surfaces, I can't remember. This update basically erased all the hours of hard work linking the Keystation to Logic as the Logic Control. This only happened with this specific Control Surface update, but not with 7.2.3, probably simply because they didn't make any changes to the .cs pref file.
Anyhow, when this happens again in the future, there seems to be a quick fix. I take NO responsibility for you somehow crashing Logic on a continual basis after applying the fix. Personally I have seen NO issues by doing this at all. I simply copied a version of the .cs file with the new update missing the Keystation Zone, as well as a version of the .cs file WITH the Keystation Zone, to a PC (I think it was a PC, don't believe I tried it with textedit, although should work as well). I opened both of the files in notepad and compared them. I noticed the word Keystation towards the bottom and realized that most all the data (gibberish) was exactly the same up until a point in which the file with the Keystation data had a group that was absent from the new .cs pref file from the new update. So I basically copied the data from the old .cs pref file, pasted it into the new .cs pref file, saved it and open Logic. Logic warned me that a pref file was corrupt or something of that nature, but loaded fine anyway, and the Keystation Zone was back in Controller Assignments.
One last thing... the problem that some of you may run into is that by making your MIDI controller a Control Surface, or turning your Keystation Pro into a Logic Control, limits some of the functionality of the MIDI Controller. For instance, a Logic Control's main purpose is to control different faders, knobs and what not of MANY different tracks. When you move a fader for volume on the Logic control, it will move the fader corresponding to the selected track... it's not programed to say change the actual midi CC 7 for Volume, only the actual Fader. Thus, what if you want the MOD wheel to still control modulation and you want the sustatin pedal to continue to act as a sustain pedal. Well, if Logic sees that Port 1 is the input for the Logic Control, but in reality the Keystation, then it's only going to allow specific events through. The way around this issue is by using both the input options that the Keystation has... hook the MIDI out into Logic and use the USB port as well. I run the Keystation as a Logic Control through the USB port, and use the MIDI out for actual MIDI data. But the catch is you have to make sure you only connect the MIDI Port into Logic's sequencer in the environment. Thus open the environment, open Clicks & Ports, Port 1 and Port 2 are the IN/OUT for the USB port. Midi Port is the Keystation's MIDI port. Select and delete the cable for the SUM, and run individual cables for the ports you want to use. Thus, all your other MIDI interface Ports, the Caps Lock keyboard etc. Just be sure that if your using Port 1 (USB Port Out from Keystation) for the fake Logic Control, that it DOES NOT cable into the "Input View" or "to Recording & Thru". This creates yet another issue:
The controls on the Keystation have to send SOME form of MIDI control message / data to Logic. Well if the faders on the Keystation are preset to send Ch1-9, Volume 0-127 messages, then when you move a fader on the Keystation (as the Logic Control) since the Keystation is still reaching the sequencer from the MIDI port, you will be sending MIDI values that can effect your current track possibly when you don't want to. The work around for this is to be sure that all the faders / knobs that you want to use as your fake Logic Control are sending useless MIDI data... i.e. CC 75, 76, 77, and so on. This way moving faders won't effect playback, although you could still in theory record this MIDI data into your sequencer. You could however filter this events from entering the sequencer input with a transformer since you know precisely what MIDI CC values you are changing. The easy way to assign these values is to use the program Enigma from M-Audio that I mentioned above.
More discussion specifically related to the Keystation Pro 88:
You can do a lot using the Controller Assignments and different Zones from the Logic Control. For instance, the real Logic Control has Solo, Mute, and Record buttons for the 8 faders. The Keystation Pro only has 1 button underneath each fader. But you could use one of the other buttons to toggle Solo, Mute, and Record mode so that depending on which mode your in, the buttons underneath each fader will correspond to Mute or Solo etc. By the way, a good setup from my experience is to use the first 8 faders of the Keystation as the track faders, and the final 9th fader for Master Volume. You can then set two of the buttons underneath the Knobs as Bank Left and Bank Right buttons to change the 8 fader tracks to correspond to the onscreen track groups of 8. Also don't forget that you can assign TWO functions to EACH button, since a button press can send a value of 127 and a button release can send a 00 value. So if you press and hold a button it can activate "Shift-select Mode" and until released it can make the buttons under the faders act as Volume to Zero resets or whatever you want. When you release the button it will go back to just Mute mode or Solo mode. The Controller Assignments window has MANY options, and parameters some of which are very confusing and take a lot of trial and error to understand... the manual helps a little but of course isn't perfect.

I'm thinking about buying a Keystation Pro 88 (2nd hand) so I was googling around and found this:
http://www.soundonsound.com/sos/Oct04/articles/keystation.htm
[quote]
I had some trouble getting the transport controls to work with Emagic's Logic, even when I loaded the 'Pro 88 Logic Preset.LSO' file on the supplied CD-ROM into Logic. I contacted the guys who designed and set up the Keystation here in the UK at the old Evolution offices, and between us we managed to work out what was going wrong. First of all, you need to enter the appropriate MIDI key commands in Logic's user preferences. These cannot be updated with an LSO file, so the commands have to be entered using the Learn Key function in Logic (see the screenshot below for the list we used). Then we discovered that the transport keys were toggling, which meant that only each second press of each key was actually working. It turned out that I had an early version of the Logic preset before this had been fixed, but the more recent one has been put on the M Audio web site for anyone else that needs it. It took about 30 seconds to change the output commands so that the buttons were no longer toggling.[/quote]
Did you get it to work correctly eventually?

Which one is the Best Backup and Recovery Method in your point of view?

Friends,
Currently we are taking hot backup with archive mode.
we have backup script to copy the datafile and we will copy the archive files in a separate folder.
alter tablespace system begin backup;
host cp /u01/app/oracle/oradata/livedb/system.dbf /u02/online_backup
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like the above script we will copy all the other data files.
then in the test environment. we will copy the datafile and archive file.
we will be recovering by using the below statement.
sql>recover database until cancel using backup controlfile.
currently no problem in backup and recovery.
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is there any other sophisticated and safe way to take a backup and restore it to another server?
if yes, can anybody point out the steps or link.
I have heard about......
DataGuard
RMAN
EXP/IMP
but i never used the above.
Thanks
sathyguy

DataGuard
RMAN
EXP/IMP ...
The only real backup/recovery method here is RMAN, Oracle's integrated backup/recovery tool, which I prefer. As an example for a fully functional RMAN command see 'backup database plus archivelog delete all input'. This statement provides a complete hot database backup including archivelogs and deletes at the successful end all archivelogs in all destinations . Compare this statement with all the steps necessary to do the same job manually. Don't worry you have many ways to finetune your backup.
For more informations there's a quick start guide:
http://download-uk.oracle.com/docs/cd/B19306_01/backup.102/b14193/toc.htm
Dataguard is a high availibility tool, which provides a kind of backup in terms of having a logical or physical standby database. When primary side fails you can switch to this standby database. Such a constellation does not mean, database backups are no longer necessary.
Export/Import is a logical backup, still often used to recover from human errors (you accidentally dropped a table for example). Don't use it as a replacement for physical backups, especially hot backups,in case of media failures you always will have loss of data, because changes made afterwards the export are not captured.
Once again I recommend you seriously should consider RMAN.
Werner

Could it be the Logic Board?

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8. I removed the HDD and placed it in a 2.5" FW enclosure, reformatted it and all that went very well.
9. I was so encouraged I decided to try to zero it out, and I have now completed zeroing out the HDD.
10. Piling success on succes I decided to go for the gold. I am now in the process of cloning a backup I made of his internal HDD, last fall, to the HDD in the enclosure.
It seems that the HDD itself is not the issue (so far anyway) I am guessing that whatever kind of driver or watchamacallit there is on the logic board is screwing up. Is that a reasonable guess? What else can I do the check this out? What next?
Thanks.
cornelius

It seems you've done quite a bit of troubleshooting and there's only so far people can help from online like this. Some of the tools, like the Apple Hardware Test may or may not detect a faulty ATA controller on the logic board. (The "shim" fix on some iBooks is related to the video card, not necessarily the ATA controller.) Since the hard drive does appear, that may be all the further the AHT tests, it may not do a file-copy type of test to see if the drive can be read and written to. (I'm not so sure about that, though.) The startup chime is an indication that the computer has passed some very basic hardware tests. It tests to see if there IS any kind of ATA bus so that there might be a hard drive or optical drive attached, it doesn't test for a drive itself. It's possible the AHT is only taking this a step further and testing the existence of a hard drive and the SMART status. This may not be enough for a test for your type of failure.
I think at some point you're going to have to decide how much time and money you're going to invest in repairing the iBook yourself. The online Apple store has a refurbished MacBook for only $999.
-Doug
(In San Francisco for the WWDC where I've temporarily edited my profile to include my e-mail)

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