Oracle hot (online) backup steps

SQL*Plus: Release 11.2.0.1.0 Production on Fri Dec 5 18:29:58 2014

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Connected to:
Oracle Database 11g Enterprise Edition Release 11.2.0.1.0 - Production
With the Partitioning, OLAP, Data Mining and Real Application Testing options

SQL> select name from v$controlfile;

NAME
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
/u01/app/oracle/oradata/ORCL1/control02.ctl

SQL> !cp /u01/app/oracle/oradata/ORCL1/control02.ctl /u01/app/oracle/backups

SQL> select name from v$datafile;

NAME
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
/u01/app/oracle/oradata/ORCL1/system01.dbf
/u01/app/oracle/oradata/ORCL1/sysaux01.dbf
/u01/app/oracle/oradata/ORCL1/undotbs01.dbf
/u01/app/oracle/oradata/ORCL1/users01.dbf

SQL> alter database begin backup;

Database altered.

SQL> !cp /u01/app/oracle/oradata/ORCL1/sys* /u01/app/oracle/backups

SQL> !cp /u01/app/oracle/oradata/ORCL1/undo* /u01/app/oracle/backups

SQL> !cp /u01/app/oracle/oradata/ORCL1/users* /u01/app/oracle/backups

SQL> alter database end backup;

Database altered.

SQL> alter system switch logfile;

System altered.

Take the archives to backup folder
SQL> !cp /u01/app/oracle/flash_recovery_area/ORCL1/archivelog/2014_12_05/*.arc /u01/app/oracle/backups

SQL> !cp /u01/app/oracle/flash_recovery_area/ORCL1/archivelog/2014_12_04/*.arc /u01/app/oracle/backups

SQL> alter database backup controlfile to '/u01/app/oracle/backups/control.bkp';

Database altered.

SQL>

Hot (online) backup steps completed