Re: Oracle Enterprise Backup Utility (EBU)

From: <bpage_at_my-dejanews.com>
Date: Tue, 09 Jun 1998 15:40:05 GMT
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In article <357C2015.76E5D9B_at_dsworks.com>, Chris Cummings <chris_at_dsworks.com> wrote:
>
> I need to determine if Oracle's Enterprise Backup Utility is a reliable
> backup/recovery solution for an environment with multiple large database
> servers. Comments from anyone who has production experience with this
> utility would be appreciated. The proposed environment will include
> several RS/6000 database servers running Oracle 7.3.3 and a tape backup
> library from Legato or from IBM (ADSM). The backup strategy will
> include both hot and cold backups. Thanks in advance for your help!
>
> --
> Chris Cummings
> Dallas Softworks, Inc.
>
> chris_at_dsworks.com (214) 350-6085 Voice 2351 W. Northwest Hwy.
> http://www.dsworks.com (214) 769-4317 Cell Suite 2215
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>
>

We have been running EBU with Legato for about 9 months now doing both hot and cold backups. We have restored both hot and cold backups without problems. As a matter of fact, we have a server dedicated to just validating our restore capabilities. We restore about 1 database a week from both hot and cold backups to make sure the backups are good and to give people practice in restoring databases.

We have about 30 HP/UX servers with 7.2.3 to 7.3.3 versions of Oracle installed with about 20 instances on about 15 of them.

We do nightly exports along with our hot backups and we save our archive logs outside of EBU to make sure we are doublely covered. We create a list of the archive logs, do a hot backup (not deleting the archive logs), export the data, and then do a Legato backup of the export file and the archive logs in the list created, and then delete the archive logs in the list.

We have only had to use it about twice in the last 9 months, but we test it out regularly to validate it our business units.

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