Re: Oracle 11 'cold backup' while DB up.

From: Chris Taylor <christopherdtaylor1994_at_gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 8 Jan 2014 09:15:25 -0600
Message-ID: <CAP79kiQfA1=dt=Wdxx7L7zLAgkuMo1Ey6UWeBDXS3NRGpvOiGQ_at_mail.gmail.com>

I know storage vendors are doing some interesting things at the storage layer (i.e. EMC Timefinder/Snap). Timefinder creates replicas of live, running databases, so maybe someone is thinking about new capabilities at the storage layer?

Reference:
http://www.emc.com/collateral/software/white-papers/h5635-timefinder-snap-multiple-snapshots-wp.pdf

Chris

On Wed, Jan 8, 2014 at 5:56 AM, Howard Latham <howard.latham_at_gmail.com>wrote:

> Ive just been told there's a tool that will do a 'cold backup' of a live
> database by taking a snapshot of the db at a particular time.
> The only way I have heard of achieving this is by having mirroring then
> temporarily Breaking the mirror and backing up the mirror . Any good
> opinions or Ideas on this would be welcome.
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> Howard A. Latham
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