Performing a cold backup of the AS3000 Oracle database

With a cold backup, the database has to be shut down. You should therefore back up the database during non-peak hours. Avoid performing a backup at the same as time as other database-intensive programs (for example, prefetching) are being run.

To perform a cold backup of the AS3000 Oracle database

Log into the AS3000 Database Server as the oracle user.
On the AS3000 server, create a backup of the orapw file in /usr/oracle/current/dbs and store it on a different system.
Change to the /dbase directory.
Type the following command:
/usr/local/bin/tar cvf - * | gzip -2 | dd ibs=10k obs=250k of=destination/mvfbackup.tar.gz
where destination is a mount point or a location on the file system. If the destination is a location on the file system, ensure that the premigrated.tar.gz file is saved to a different system.