Some hardware vendors (Network Appliance for sure, and their products are
relatively inexpensive) give you the ability to take snapshots of what's on
you disks. It makes backup of large databases easier. If you don't already
have the hardware that's something you may consider. But I have to say I
never had to deal with databases larger than a couple of TBs.
Brian Peasland <oracle_dba_at_peasland.com> wrote in message news:<3E395391.632A26C1_at_peasland.com>...
> > However, you are right that backup in the VVLDB arena becomes another level
> > of problem - and Oracle is aware of it, and working on the problem. My
> > suggestion would be to architect for what you have now and can see in the
> > immediate future, and wait and see what the next 1-2 years brings.
>
> Unfortunately, we have the system architecture fine for what we have
> right now. But the immediate future means that we will be over 10TB in
> the next six months, and over 20TB in the next year or year and a half.
> This all assumes that we can put an infrastructure in place to handle
> the data volume.
>
>
> In the end, none of this really answers my original question. Am I the
> only one who is building a database in the double digit terabyte range
> and is looking for a good solution to backing that database up?
>
> Thanks,
> Brian
Received on Fri Jan 31 2003 - 10:40:36 CST
