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Anyone using IBM's Flashcopy for hotbacks?

From: Jesse, Rich <Rich.Jesse_at_qtiworld.com>
Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2004 14:39:25 -0800
Message-ID: <F001.005DCF2C.20040115143925@fatcity.com>


We're considering an IBM FAStT SAN for a 30GB Oracle9i DB on HP/UX 11i. One option with the FAStT is called "FlashCopy". It's been six months since I've last looked at this, but our original idea was to smack all TSs into backup mode, FlashCopy, then smack all TSs out of backup mode. We'd also need to dump the copy to tape, then startup this copy as another instance, so the Tivoli plugin to have RMAN manage this probably wouldn't be worth the money for us.

So, has anyone done this? Which FlashCopy options did you use? Any major gotchas to not do this? Does the Flash cause I/O problems during the backup due to the block reads from the original DB?

TIA,
Rich

Rich Jesse                        System/Database Administrator
rich.jesse_at_qtiworld.com           Quad/Tech International, Sussex, WI USA

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