TRIUMF Grid Software and Applications

Backups - 10g R1

To backup the Oracle database on fts:

  • login as oracle@fts
  • Do the following:
    $ cd /oradata1/backup/tmp
    $ ls -l
    lrwxrwxrwx    1 oracle    13 Nov 17 10:34 backup.sql -> ../backup.sql
    $ sqlplus / as sysdba
    SQL> @backup
    $ mkdir MonDD
    $ mv *.dbf *.log *.cmd MonDD
    $ tar zcf MonDD.tgz MonDD
    $ rm -rf MonDD
    $ scp -p MonDD.tgz user@host:/path/to/backup/location/
    $ mv MonDD.tgz ../tarballs/
  • Eventually clean up the archive redo log files in /oradata[23]/archive/
    $ pwd
    /oradata2/archive
    $ find . -daystart -name '*.dbf' -mtime +1 -ls | less
    $ find . -daystart -name '*.dbf' -mtime +1 -exec rm {} \;