Is it possible to take live backup of the database on a Red Hat Satellite server without stopping the Satellite services?

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Issue

  • As per satellite documentation, the following steps are required to backup the embedded Oracle database on satellite server:

    # /usr/sbin/rhn-satellite stop 
    # su - oracle -c "/usr/bin/db-control backup /proj/sat_serv/oracle_databse" 
    # /usr/sbin/rhn-satellite start 
    
  • Is it possible to perform a live backup of the Satellite's database without stopping all of the services?

Environment

  • Red Hat Network Satellite 5.4, 5.5 (and older releases)

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