Login or sudo to the oracle user and try following the instructions from this site <a href="http://www.markcallen.com/oracle/oracle-xe-backup">http://www.markcallen.com/oracle/oracle-xe-backup</a> <div class="gmail_quote"> On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 3:51 PM, Kevin Arhelger <<a href="mailto:javapunk%2Bsw@gmail.com">javapunk+sw@gmail.com</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> I'm attempting to set up ACHIVELOG in oracle xe and running into a wall. #. /usr/lib/oracle/xe/app/oracle/product/10.2.0/server/bin/oracle_env.sh #sqlplus /nolog SQL> connect / as sysdba ERROR: ORA-12560: TNS:protocol adapter error I can log in with the 'sqlplus 'sys@xe as sysdba' just fine but after shutting down the database this method no longer works for modifying oracle. I'm sure there is a simple step I am missing, does anyone have an idea? Kevin Arhelger <div><div></div><div class="h5"> On Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 6:34 PM, Mike McCune <<a href="mailto:mmccune@redhat.com">mmccune@redhat.com</a>> wrote: > On 09/13/2009 10:50 AM, Milan Zazrivec wrote: >> >> On Sunday 13 September 2009 05:20:00 Kevin Arhelger wrote: >>> >>> After having to rebuild my spacewalk install from scratch after a disk >>> failure I was wondering what the proper way to backup spacewalk was. I >>> am currently using backuppc so I was wondering what I would need to >>> backup to perform a successful restore. >>> >>> - Oracle needs to be backed >>> - /var/satellite contains all the pushed packages >>> - /var/lib/cobbler all the cobbler configuration. >>> - /etc >>> >>> My restore plan would be to reinstall all the rpms to get the same >>> system state. Then I would restore the oracle db and restore >>> /var/satellite and /var/lib/cobbler and /etc/ >>> > >>> Are there any other steps I am missing with this backup plan? >> >> /root/ssl-build with the package containing your SSL certificate >> and home directory for nocpulse user. >> > > Also add /var/lib/rhn/kickstarts which has all your kickstart files. > > Perhaps a wiki page with dirs required for backup/restore would be good. > > Mike > -- > Mike McCune > mmccune AT <a href="http://redhat.com" target="_blank">redhat.com</a> > Red Hat Engineering | Portland, OR > Systems Management | 650.254.4248 > > _______________________________________________ > Spacewalk-list mailing list > <a href="mailto:Spacewalk-list@redhat.com">Spacewalk-list@redhat.com</a> > <a href="https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/spacewalk-list" target="_blank">https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/spacewalk-list</a> > _______________________________________________ Spacewalk-list mailing list <a href="mailto:Spacewalk-list@redhat.com">Spacewalk-list@redhat.com</a> <a href="https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/spacewalk-list" target="_blank">https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/spacewalk-list</a> </div></div></blockquote></div>