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[Veritas-bu] Best Option for Hot Backups of Oracle on an AIX enviornment

2004-11-03 18:12:54
Subject: [Veritas-bu] Best Option for Hot Backups of Oracle on an AIX enviornment
From: ewilts AT ewilts DOT org (Ed Wilts)
Date: Wed, 03 Nov 2004 17:12:54 -0600
On 11/03/04 15:40, Rami Elyas wrote:
> I'm currently running cold backups of our Oracle environment. We will be 
> moving to hot backups soon and I've been looking at a few options:
> 
>    1. Use the Database Agent with NetbackUp
>    2. The other is to run a split-mirror and break the mirror during
>       backup and then re-sync the mirror when the backup is finished

Option 1.

Option 2 is very, very error-prone since you can't really tell when your 
backup is finished especially if you need to multi-stream and have 
multiple volumes.

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Ed Wilts, Mounds View, MN, USA
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