Thanks Mark, but in my database with about less than 20 users, can be acceptable, remember I have a very small databases. About 2-6 gigas. On 10/12/05, Bobak, Mark <Mark.Bobak@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hmm...a normal shutdown? How long is that going to take? (Has anyone > ever really used normal shutdown for anything useful?? ;-)) > > On any moderately busy database, you could be waiting indefinitely for a > normal shutdown. (All it takes is one user to go home and not log out.) > you may be better off with a "shutdown transactional". > > But, why bother? Just follow the standard best practices, and don't > worry so much about your backups. Always backup all datafiles, but > never tempfiles or on-line redo, and use the 'alter database backup > controlfile ...' command to make a backup copy of your controlfile. > > -Mark > -----Original Message----- > From: oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > [mailto:oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Juan Carlos Reyes > Pacheco > Sent: Wednesday, October 12, 2005 3:42 PM > To: Riyaj Shamsudeen > Cc: oracle list > Subject: Re: not including temp neither undo tablespace in full backup > > Thanks a lot Riyaj, > I had tested the situation you saidme in the past, but any way letme > test again. > Maybe I'll have to ask a normal shutdown. > -- > //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l > -- Oracle Certified Profesional 9i 10g Orace Certified Professional Developer 6i 8 years of experience in Oracle 7,8i,9i,10g and developer 6i -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l