Why archivelog mode is mandatory for hot backups.

Hi,
Why the database should be put in archivelog mode when we take hot backups. What happens actually. Why can't we put in noarchivelog mode and take hot backups?

Suppose you are not using RMAN then you must put your tablespaces in backup mode. Otherwise the backup you can take will be unrecoverable.
In order to recover from a Hot Backup you have to do followings
- Restore your Hot Backup
- Recover the database - here, the archive log files are important
How does Oracle know what has to be recovered from archivelogs?It looks at the SCN.
If you never put your tablespaces in backup mode then SCN would not be frozen and Oracle wouldn't know what has to be recovered.
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Minimum privilege for hot backup

Hi,
Dears,
which privilege is required to take hot backup i want create user to take hotbackup with minimum privilege .now i take hotbackup with SYS user but this is danger because another department should be take hotbackup.
best regards
allahmorad

Allahmorad wrote:
Hi,
Dears,
which privilege is required to take hot backup i want create user to take hotbackup with minimum privilege .now i take hotbackup with SYS user but this is danger because another department should be take hotbackup.
best regards
allahmoradalter database,alter system, create session is enough privileges to make vast changes in your database.So there is not such priveleges.(as fortmann suggested).
I will suggest you to use the rman for hot backup.
Hope this help :)
--neeraj

When to use REUSE/SET, NO-ARCHIVELOGS in create controlfile in HOT BACKUP?

I am a trainee Oracle DBA and have the following queries. Kindly reply with detailed explanation as I want to get my concepts cleared!
Q1>> While doing a user managed hot backup, when we are creating a control file(CREATE CONTROLFILE) from trace for recovery when do we use the create control file with the following options:
*1. REUSE / SET*
*2. ARCHIVELOGS / NOARCHIVELOGS*
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REUSE is when you want the CREATE to overwrite the existing controlfile(s). If the controlfile(s) {as named in the instance parameter file, initSID.ora or spfileSID.ora} is/are already present, the CREATE fails unless REUSE is specified.
SET is when you want to change the database name. Oracle then creates the controlfile(s) with the specified database name and updates the headers of all the datafiles. If you run a CREATE with a database name that is different from that in the datafile headers, the CREATE fails unless you include a SET to specify that the name must be changed. Note that this also means that the name in the instance parameter file must already have been updated.
1.2 ARCHIVELOG/NOARCHIVELOG is to set the database state. The same is achieved by issuing an "ALTER DATABASE ARCHIVELOG/NOARCHIVELOG" when the database is MOUNTed but not OPEN.
2. You'd run the CREATE CONTROLFILE if you do not have a binary backup of the controlfile.
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Environment configuration for Hot Backups

Hi all,
1. I am trying to create a hot backup tool based on the read-only Environment strategy ([discussed in a previous thread|http://forums.oracle.com/forums/message.jspa?messageID=3674008#3674008] ).
Now, leaving aside the EnvironmentConfig.setReadOnly(true), I have found quite a few possible other configuration options in the EnvironmentParams class and I'm wondering if there are some that I should be using.
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Edited by: Alex Popescu on Aug 13, 2009 5:50 AM

ENV_RECOVERY - suppresses running recovery at Environment creation. Internal parameter.
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PS: I've forgot to mention that I'm running a quite old version: 2.1.30
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Shell scripting for hot backup

Hi,
can you please give me shell scripting and it's explanation for taking hot backup. and which shell scripts are frequently use in real time.
thank a lot in advance.

HAve you ever heard about RMAN ? Much better than reinvent the wheel.
http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/E11882_01/backup.112/e10642/rcmquick.htm
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Hello Guru's,
I have been having soem trouble running a successful hot full rman backup nightly.
We max our CPU load whenever our RMAN takes too long and conflicts with a Legato tape backup. I have a development server that I attempted to get a consistent backup time duration that is rock solid as to not conflict with the Legato backup time.
I just found out about duration with RMAN scripts here is my code:
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at -f /hd1/rman_scripts/rman_backup 0600 tomorrow
rman target/
run {
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backup duration 1:00 partial minimize load database filesperset 1;
backup as BACKUPSET tag '%TAG' database;
backup as BACKUPSET tag '%TAG' archivelog all delete all input;
delete noprompt obsolete;
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exit
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RMAN,FAILED, 17-OCT-06 0600
BACKUP,FAILED,17-OCT-06 0600
RMAN,FAILED,17-OCT-06 0606
BACKUP,COMPLETED,17-OCT-06 0606
BACKUP,COMPLETED,17-OCT-06 0606
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DELETE,COMPLETED,17-OCT-06 1513
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06:15 and not 1513?????????????
RMAN appears to have only taken 15 minutes to create the files, why do I have a completed timestamp from v$rman_status of 1513???
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Try to remove the DURATION option in your script.
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http://download-east.oracle.com/docs/cd/B19306_01/backup.102/b14194/rcmsynta009.htm#i1010261
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I am a fresh newbie in Windows driver development .Only one 3 hours of MSDN search experience in Windows Driver. :(
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Why we cannot take hot backup if database is in noarchive log mode

Hi,
I am aware that if database is in noarchive log mode, we cannot take hot backups and only cold backup is possible.
I would like to know the technical reason behind this restriction?
Thank You
Sarayu

Hot backups are fuzzy backups, inconsistent, in other words, since something is always happening in the database. When you recover, you restore data files and then apply redo to make the transactions consistent. You can do a complete recovery or recover to a point in time. So where does the redo come from? That's what we call archiving redo logs. When the online redo gets full, it gets archived.
In the case of an instance crash, the redo is there in the online redo logs, so Oracle can recover automatically. Anything beyond that, having to do with storage media, is a media recovery, and requires those archived logs. So unless you have some other way to get your data back, always run in archivelog mode.
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No archivelog mode backups

I am curious if anyone knows of any software out there that can backup a database that is in no archivelog mode while it is running?
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Tim Boles

Hello,
I've never heard about it.
RMAN which is (on my point of view) the best tool to Backup Oracle database needs to set the database
in mount state for Cold Backup.
Else, about mirror or "business copy", they cannot manage dirty blocks in the buffer. They just manage
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We make clone with Business Copy (HP) for our Backup and we need to have the database in archivelog mode
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How to take a Hot backup of Oracle database

1: put the db in archive log mode
2: set the db_sid to correct one
3: login to sqlplus
4: verify the name of the db that you are connected to
select name from v$database;
5: check if the db is in archive log made
select log_mode from v$database;
if not in archive log mode
another command to check
archive log list;
6: find where on disk oracle writes archive log when it is in archive log mode
sql> show parameter log_archive_dest_1;
if the value is found to be 0, that means no values will be recorded, so we need to change it
sql> alter system set log_archive_dest_1='LOCATION=c:\database\oradata\finance\archived_logs\'
scope=spfile;
7: shutdown immediate; < this is done just to prepare the db for hot backups >
8: startup the db in mount mode
startup mount;
( 3 startup types : nomount - just starts the instance, mount - locates the control files and open up according to the values, open - finds the datafiles from the control files and opens up the db )
9: put the db in archive log mode
alter database archivelog;
10: open the database
alter database open;
11: check the status of the db
select log_mode from v$database;
SQL> archive log list;
12: create a directory for archived log
check if its empty, if empty we need to switch
sql> alter system archive log current;
run it 5 times < need to put / and enter > , then check the archive log dir , we will find files
13: make a table in the database and insert data in it
create table employees (fname varchar(2));
check the table
desc employees;
insert values
insert into employees values ('Mica');
14: tablespace must be in hot backup mode
check the status
select * from v$backup;
if found not active, then we need to change
we cannot put the db in hot backup mode, unless it is archive log mode
change to hot backup mode
alter database begin backup;
check the status
select * from v$backup;
15: now we can only COPY DBF FILES
copy *dbf <distination location>
16: need to take the db out to hot backup mode
alter database end backup;
17: need to make another archive log switch
alter system archive log current;
18: need to copy control files now, need to do a binary bckup
alter database backup controlfile to '<location>\controlbackup';
19: insert more values to the table
insert into employess values ('NASH')
COMMIT;
make another archive log switch : alter system archive log current;
do the same process for more values
20 : backup all the archive logs to a new location
21: shutdown the db and simulate a hw error, delete all the files from the database folder
22: try to start the sqlplus and db ::: error
23: copy all the backups to the db dir
need to copy the control files, rename the binary backup of the control file and make the copies as needed
24: try to mount the db, error < must use reset logs or noreset logs >
25: need to do a recovering of the database
shutdown
restore the archive logs
startup mount;
recover database until cancel using backup controlfile;
it will ask for a log file :
yes for recovery
cancel for cancelling recovery
26: check status: open the database in readonly
alter database open read only;
check the tables to see the data
shutdown immediate
shartup mount;
recover again : recover database until cancel using backup controlfile;
if oracle is asking for a log that do nto exist , all we have to do is type cancel
27: open the database
alter database open;
need to do reset logs
alter database open resetlogs;
28: check the db that you are connected, check the tables
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A very long list ... let me make it shorter.
SQL> archive log list;If I see this:
Database log mode No Archive ModeI put the database into archivelog mode and leave it there forever.
If it is in archivelog mode:
RMAN> TARGET SYS/<password>@<service_name> NOCATALOG
RMAN> BACKUP DATABASE PLUS ARCHIVELOG;Though there are a lot of things one could do better such as incrementals with block change tracking, creating an RMAN catalog, etc.

User hot and Rman hot backup

During user mode hot backup lots of redo gets generated as the entire block is written when any changes are made to a block which is in hot backup mode.But during Rman hot backup less redo are generated why is this so and whatz the logic invloved? and how oracle recovers the file that has been backed up through Rman.
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From Article Note:76736.1 RMAN FAQ: Recovery Manager -- Frequently Asked
To understand why RMAN does not require extra logging or backup mode,
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A non-RMAN online backup consists of a non-Oracle tool, such as cp or
dd, backing up a datafile at the same time that DBWR is updating the
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change is made to a data block, instead of logging just the changed
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mode.
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backup. If we read a fractured block, we read the block again to obtain
a complete block before backing it up. non-Oracle tools are not able to
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the header of the file until the file is removed from backup mode.
We do this because we cannot guarantee that the third-party backup
tool will copy the file header prior to copying the data blocks.
RMAN does not need to freeze the file header checkpoint because we
know the order in which we will read the blocks, which enables us to
capture a known good checkpoint for the file.

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