Always shut down the STA application gracefully whenever possible. You must stop the STA application when moving or restoring the STA database.

1. Open a terminal session on the STA server, and log in as the Oracle user.
2. Stop STA:

   $ STA stop all
   

   It may take several minutes. Once complete, you should see: Successfully stopped mysql service

3. Verify the application has stopped:

   $ STA status all
   

   You should see: staui service is shutdown.