Re: NetBackup Oracle on Hyper-V

Hello Charlote

I think Netbackup also have a linux SO datafile or Oracle specifically agent for making backups.

Backup from a VM made by hyper-v agent is all VM content coverage from a machine. Depending on your strategy it´s maybe good or not.

If you just want to restore once a backup from Oracle by this way you would recover a entire VM

So, if you want to prevent a crash machine, this backup from whole VM is apropriate
If you want to make daily backups from your Oracle running into VM, an Oracle agent or linux datafile would more apropriate

But, both are apropriate together

I think people will suggest more about it.

regards,

angelo

On Tue, 28 Aug 2018 at 15:27, Charlotte Hammond <dmarc-noreply_at_freelists.org> wrote:

> 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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