NetBackup Oracle on Hyper-V
Date: Tue, 28 Aug 2018 18:22:51 +0000 (UTC)
Message-ID: <1414774477.654285.1535480571894_at_mail.yahoo.com>
Hello All,
I've been handed an Oracle environment using technologies that I'm unfamiliar with and am looking for guidance on first steps. These are Oracle 11g/12c databases running on Linux VMs in Hyper-V.
The Hyper-V VMs are backed up using NetBackup which appears to use a temporary Snapshot (Checkpoint) of the entire VM followed by a backup of this snapshot.
The databases are used only for testing and have a lax RPO - simply go back to the last snapshot - no roll-forward required.
The question is what do I need to do? Is simply allowing NetBackup to backup Hyper-V snapshots adequate for protecting the VM contents including (most importantly) the Oracle database? If so is this entirely transparent to the VM / database? Is there a requirement to put the database into backup mode during the snapshoting (and if so, how)? Does the snapshot capture memory or just disk content - i.e. will this require crash recovery on restore?
Obviously testing will be required but I'm struggling to find appropriate information on concepts just to get started which suggests I'm asking the wrong questions, so any help will be very much appreciated!
Thank You!Charlotte
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Received on Tue Aug 28 2018 - 20:22:51 CEST