sayle@ucs.ubc.ca (Ralph Sayle) (01/31/91)
Regarding UNIX dump/retore and Oracle Databases We (UBC's University Computing Services) have heard that there have been problems with restoring Oracle databases with UNIX restore, if the dump took place with Oracle running, even if there was no activity on the database. We would have expected that if there was no database activity that a UNIX dump of the files should be restoreable (with UNIX restore) and result in a consistent database. Has anyone had any experience with this?