If
a database was terminated while one of its tablespaces was in BACKUP MODE
ALTER
TABLESPACE <table space name> BEGIN BACKUP;
It
will tell you that media recovery is required when you try to restart the
database.
DBA
is then required to recover the database and apply all archived logs to the
database.
However,
from Oracle7.2, you can simply take the individual data files out of backup
mode and restart the database
ALTER DATABASE DATAFILE '/path/filename' END BACKUP;
One can select from V$BACKUP to see which data files are in backup mode. This normally saves a significant amount of database down time.
From
Oracle9i onwards, the following command can be used to take all of the data
files out of hot backup mode
ALTER DATABASE END BACKUP;
The above commands need to be issued when the database is mounted