cold back up an oracle database

Refrence:

search "Oracle DBA Justin - How to backup an 11g Oracle database cold" on YouTube
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iH0E-g9qj90&feature=relmfu

"Cold Backup" means to shutdown the Oracle database first and then backup the database files.

1. set oracle sid
export ORACLE_SID=AWCC

2. shutdown the database AWCC
sqlplus / as sysdba
SQL>shutdown;

3. backup (copy the database files of AWCC to another location/medium)

4. start the database
SQL>startup;

To restore, just shutdown the database and copy back all the files to the database's data file directory and restart the database.

Warning: this is only the record of the steps in the video, not tested yet.