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The easiest way to back up and restore Oracle 8

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QUESTION POSED ON: 08 March 2002
What is the easiest method for backing up and restoring a database on Personal Oracle 8? Export/Import? Also, why won't the Enterprise Manager work with it?

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The easiest method to backup and restore a database in any version of Oracle is to perform a cold backup. Shutdown the database. Then use OS commands to copy the database datafiles to a new location. Then startup the database. To restore, simply shutdown the database. Then use OS commands to copy the backup datafiles to their original locations. Starting the database completes the recovery.

Oracle Enterprise Manager should work with Personal Oracle. Are you have specific difficulty? You might want to post any relevant errors messages to get the problem solved.

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