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Cold backup before upgrade using xcopy on Windows

edited Mar 26, 2015 4:49PM in Database Administration (MOSC) 2 commentsAnswered

Hello, we are running Oracle Database Standard Edition 11.2.0.3.0 on Windows Server 2008 R2.  In a previous thread about upgrading from 11.2.0.3.0 to 11.2.0.4.0, it was suggested that I perform a cold backup before installing the new home and upgrading the database.  So after some searching I found several examples of using Windows xcopy to perform the cold backup.  Below is the commands I have come up with to do this.  Here is my questions:

1) Have I included all of the files I need to back up?

2) Do I have the xcopy switches correct to insure everything is copied?

3) I read in another post that the database upgrade will also back up the data.  Do I really need to do that portion twice?

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