Re: Anyone Using Commvault For Backups?
From: Mladen Gogala <mgogala_at_yahoo.com>
Date: Tue, 17 Feb 2015 15:49:51 -0500
Message-ID: <54E3A96F.609_at_yahoo.com>
On 2/17/2015 10:22 AM, Scott Canaan wrote:
>
> Our sys admins have purchased Commvault for all of our backups. We
> are having a hard time getting it to successfully do some types of
> restores, in particular: cloning (prod to test) and restoring a
> database to a clean hardware install. It took a long time to work
> through normal restores and point-in-time restores. We are working
> with Oracle 11.2.0.3 and 11.2.0.4 only.
>
> If you’ve been successful in either (or both) of these areas and have
> documentation on how you accomplished it, I’d really appreciate it if
> you could make that documentation available. The vendor’s
> documentation is severely lacking, in some cases downright wrong.
>
> Thank you,
>
> Scott Canaan ’88 (srcdco_at_rit.edu <mailto:srcdco_at_rit.edu>)
>
> (585) 475-7886 – work (585) 339-8659 – cell
>
> “Life is like a sewer, what you get out of it depends on what you put
> into it.” – Tom Lehrer
>
Date: Tue, 17 Feb 2015 15:49:51 -0500
Message-ID: <54E3A96F.609_at_yahoo.com>
On 2/17/2015 10:22 AM, Scott Canaan wrote:
>
> Our sys admins have purchased Commvault for all of our backups. We
> are having a hard time getting it to successfully do some types of
> restores, in particular: cloning (prod to test) and restoring a
> database to a clean hardware install. It took a long time to work
> through normal restores and point-in-time restores. We are working
> with Oracle 11.2.0.3 and 11.2.0.4 only.
>
> If you’ve been successful in either (or both) of these areas and have
> documentation on how you accomplished it, I’d really appreciate it if
> you could make that documentation available. The vendor’s
> documentation is severely lacking, in some cases downright wrong.
>
> Thank you,
>
> Scott Canaan ’88 (srcdco_at_rit.edu <mailto:srcdco_at_rit.edu>)
>
> (585) 475-7886 – work (585) 339-8659 – cell
>
> “Life is like a sewer, what you get out of it depends on what you put
> into it.” – Tom Lehrer
>
Scott, I do this type of thing for a living. I am a Commvault Systems consultant, in the professional services division. Please, contact me directly with the problem, as I may be able to help you. Regards,
-- Mladen Gogala Oracle DBA http://mgogala.freehostia.com -- http://www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-lReceived on Tue Feb 17 2015 - 21:49:51 CET