> Because of concerns about restore time when restoring directly from tape, we > now run rman to backup to a 1.8 Tb filesystem created for this purpose, then > use a ksh (We don't need no stinkin' Perl) script to copy the files to tape Too bad, you don't know what you're missing. > > NOTE: One thing that should be fixed with the script -- one of these days > when I get around to it (oh yeah, sure) -- is that while the script checks > to see if it is already running with at least one of the command line args > and exits if it is, it will run (I think) if there are no common command > line args between the two commands. . > This is actually quite trivial in Perl via flock(). Doesn't matter if the previous job was kill -9'd, flock() will let you check to see if the file is in use. ( Fctnl flock in my case) ;) Jared ---------------------------------------------------------------- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com ---------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe send email to: oracle-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx put 'unsubscribe' in the subject line. -- Archives are at //www.freelists.org/archives/oracle-l/ FAQ is at //www.freelists.org/help/fom-serve/cache/1.html -----------------------------------------------------------------