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What is cold backup? What are the elements of it?
 
Cold backup is taking backup of all physical files after normal shutdown of database.  We need to take.
     - All Data files.
     - All Control files.
     - All on-line redo log files.
     - The init.ora file (Optional)



  
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January 04, 2006 03:38:24   #1  
cmanne Member Since: January 2006   Contribution: 33    

RE: What is cold backup? What are the eleme...
A cold backup is taken after shutting down the database Cold backup contains the following files--Data Files--Redolog Files--Control File(s)
 
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June 20, 2006 04:31:47   #2  
Ravi Prakash Pichika        

RE: What is cold backup? What are the eleme...

A backup of one or more database files taken while the database is closed. Typically, closed backups are also whole database backups. If you closed the database cleanly, then all the files in the backup are consistent.

SQL>SHUTDOWN IMMEDIATE (or) NORMAL

 

 


 
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