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Re: RMAN restore times

From: Dennis Williams <oracledba.williams_at_gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 8 Aug 2005 08:57:55 -0500
Message-ID: <de807caa05080806575e91810c@mail.gmail.com>


Khemmanivanh,
 One point that is often overlooked: is the database stored on RAID-5? I ask because large databases often use RAID-5. Today with caches, RAID-5 often offers reasonable performance, so we get comfortable with it. However, remember that RAID-5 means slow writes. In a recovery situation, large amounts of data are being written to disk. The cache quickly fills and then you are observing the slow writes.
 I agree to look at BCV technology. Another idea is to back up to disk. Say you have a large database with only a small amount of updating. For simplicity, assume only 2 disk systems. Back up the files on system A to system B, and vice versa. Now, if you lose system B, tell Oracle those files are now on system A, and apply recovery. I haven't worked out all the details of this scenario, but I think it holds promise.  Dennis Williams  

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> 2) Regarding restore times, what times have people been seeing with
> RMAN? If you can post your tape technology that would be much
> appreciated. If we stick with BCV then it's really hard to beat that
> technology for restore times but can we get close?
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