Post Recovery–Cold Backup - Cisco BTS 10200 Troubleshooting Manual

Element Management System Database Recovery from Hot Backup
Post Recovery–Cold Backup
Once you have recovered your database, you need to make a cold backup of the database using the
dbadm –E cold_backup command. The following tar files will be created from the cold backup script.
You need to save a copy of these files to the /opt/oraback directory. Make sure that the following files
are saved to the offsite FTP server.
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Log in as oracle, or su – oracle:
Step 1
Enter the following command:
Step 2
dbadm -E cold_backup
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This process performs the following tasks:
1. Shutdown optical1 database on priems09.
2. Backup /opt/oracle/admin directory (except arch dump and log).
3. Cold backup database.
4. Backup oracle crontab file.
5. Startup database.
The following backup files are generated at the end of process:
/opt/oracle/tmp/optical1_DB_upd.tar.gz
/opt/oracle/tmp/optical1_ADMIN_upd.tar
/opt/oracle/tmp/optical1_upd.crontab
Free disk space left on /opt/oracle/tmp: 1383 MB
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LOG file: /opt/oracle/tmp/ora_cold_backup.log
Do you want to continue? [y/n] y
Once the cold backup is completed, save a copy of the backup files to the /opt/oraback directory for the
Step 3
ftp script to transfer offsite.
cd /opt/oracle/tmp
cp optical1_ADMIN_upd.tar /opt/oraback
cp optical1_upd.crontab /opt/oraback
cp optical1_DB_upd.tar.gz /opt/oraback
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/opt/oracle/tmp/optical1_DB_upd.tar.gz
/opt/oracle/tmp/optical1_ADMIN_upd.tar
/opt/oracle/tmp/optical1_upd.crontab
This process can take more than 10 minutes to complete, depending on the volume of data in the
database.
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