Re: Which backup tool?

I use RMAN with Legato NetWorker 5.5....does everything that I want and more!

Stoyan Kenderov wrote:

> Magnus,
>
> After having made some experience with Oracle Backups, I would strongly
> recommend the use of the Recovery manager. There is an online version of the
> RMAN Administrators Guide (but you should have it on your installation media
> too) which provides a chapter on exactly your question -which backup strategy
> is best. It covers also the OS backup vs. RMAN controlled backus. I use RMAN
> in conjunction with Legato Networker and am very pleased with both the
> performance and the possibilities it offers. There is a Legato Storage
> Manager (LSM) Software included on your installation media, which is better
> than nothing, should you deside to use a third party media manager.
>
> regards,
> Stoyan
>
> Magnus Bergh wrote:
>
> > Which method do you recommend to do backups? Recovery manager or using a
> > script based approach?
> >
> > I am using Orace 8.0.x on NT and Netware (ans probably also UNIX in the
> > future). Each site will only run one Oracle server so a using recovery
> > catalog is not an option. Most sites will probably use a tape backup
> > solution that is not integrated with Oracle backing up other servers as
> > well).
> >
> > The first questions is, which method is best, Recovery manager or using
> > o/s backup?
> >
> > I have been using scripts combined with o/s commands (I copy files to a
> > backup directory). However, I would like to find a solution so I don't
> > have to schedule jobs with an o/s command or use o/s commands to copy
> > files and delete archive log files. Since I will support different
> > environments I want to use the same method. And with Netware you have to
> > use 3rd part tools to schedule commands or to execute o/s commands.
> >
> > I am thinking about using the Enterprise Backup manager because it
> > supports scheduling jobs. The recovery manager subsystem supports backing
> > up archived log files and also deleting them (even if I would prefer
> > keeping 3 days of log files).
> >
> > However, I have a lot of problems (using EM 1.6 on NT4 SP5) getting this
> > to work. I have frequent crashes, jobs not running (when using o/s backup
> > subsystem) etc.
> >
> > I am also concerned that since I don't use a recovery catalog I will not
> > be able to do a point-in-time recovery (true?).
> >
> > Any other methods? Perhaps running a TCL script to perform o/s tasks like
> > copying files and deleting archive logs? Anyone who has a script to do
> > this?
> >
> > Magnus
Received on Fri Sep 24 1999 - 08:47:30 CDT