Originally posted by OracleDoc
Woahh woahh guys hold your horses.

If you have a live standby database you cannot shut it down to take a backup then bring it back up and expect everything to be all honkey dorie. If you were to do so, any changes that prod shipped over to you via redo or archive would not be able to be applied. The easiest way is to simply take a hot backup of the standby. That way anything that's shipped over can be applied while'st the hot backup is taking place.

If any of you are seriously considering using a hot standby for cloning purposes let me know and I'll contact my old client for the scripts.


shutup Jeff yes I know I should of kept them
Hey oracle Doc

Can you briefly outline the steps you too to offline the database backup to the standby server.

regards
Hrishy