Re: AWS S3 Backups
Date: Thu, 6 Feb 2020 16:42:57 -0500
Message-ID: <CAFQ5ACLFugJcG8DAHEh=6Zi5m8P4ZQgpUXJS_Q7s_xLgMZEYig_at_mail.gmail.com>
On Thu, Feb 6, 2020 at 1:50 PM Mladen Gogala <gogala.mladen_at_gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Charlotte!
>
> You can backup from S3 to another S3 LUN using normal device type disk
> channels. Just mount the LUN, create a file system for your OS and plough
> away. In addition to that, I stand corrected: OSB apparently works with AWS
> and can be used for storing stuff to glacier. S3 can do even fancier stuff,
> with snapshots. You can put your DB in the backup mode, snap the database
> LUN(s) take the database out of the backup mode and backup the database
> files on the LUN snapshot using OS backup like tar or cpio.
>
> Regards
> On 2/6/20 12:52 PM, Charlotte Hammond wrote:
>
> Hi Mladen,
>
> OSB is intended to work with AWS:
> https://docs.oracle.com/database/121/RCMRF/web_services.htm#RCMRF90489
>
> That document gives advantages over using tape but not over just mounting
> the S3 bucket as a file system. S3 is our target rather than glacier.
>
> Thanks,
> Charlotte
> On Thursday, February 6, 2020, 05:29:41 PM GMT, Mladen Gogala
> <gogala.mladen_at_gmail.com> <gogala.mladen_at_gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
> IMHO, OSB Cloud Module is specific for Oracle Cloud and will not help with
> AWS. The problem is in the letter "A" which doesn't get along with the big
> red "*O*". What is your backup destination? Another S3 LUN? Local
> storage? Glacier?
>
> You can do rman to another S3 LUN by allocating disk channels (no device
> type SBT). For Glacier, you need some kind of an enterprise backup utility
> which can write to Glacier (Commvault, Rubrik, Veeam, Cohesity) and the
> configuration is product specific. Oracle Secure Backup is just another
> enterprise backup tool, much like DD Boost, TSM, NetBackup or the
> previously mentioned utilities.
>
>
> On 2/6/20 11:34 AM, Charlotte Hammond (Redacted sender
> charlottejanehammond for DMARC) wrote:
>
> Hello All,
>
> AWS backups question: if I want to backup by database to an S3 bucket
> using RMAN do I need to use the OSB Cloud Module or can I just mount the
> bucket as a file system using fuse? If the latter is possible, what would
> the benefits of using OSB be?
>
> Many thanks,
> Charlotte
>
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> Mladen Gogala
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> Tel: (347) 321-1217
>
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>
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