Re: Switching from Veritas backups to pure RMAN

Rick Denoire wrote:

> Hello
>
> I use Veritas Netbackup Datacenter V. 4.5FP_6 to backup Oracle 9i DB
> on Linux RH AS 2.1. Works fine but I wonder why use Veritas at all,
> since it only starts a script to run RMAN, which I could schedule in
> the crontab. Of course, in order to get rid of Veritas completely, the
> channel allocated should not be of type "sbt".
>
> Since the Veritas GUI does not support restore/recover Operations of
> Oracle databases anyway, what does Veritas buys me at all?
>
> If I need a GUI, why not use the Enterprise Manager? (I don't, but I
> guess I could - should I?)
>
> My question now would be what consequences the switch to bare RMAN
> backups would have in the transition time. Would current backupsets be
> invalidated? How can I make a clean cut and begin with a full plain
> RMAN backup? OK, if I don't use Veritas anymore, will the presence of
> the Veritas libpko.so (name from my head) have any impact on DB
> functions?
>
> This question is not academic. We plan to set up a couple of databases
> on other servers, license fees for the Oracle DB agent has more than
> doubled in the last months (from 2000 to almost 5000 US$). I don't see
> that this agents are worth the money. By the way, Veritas belongs now
> to Symantec, prices could change again.
>
> Thanks
> Rick Denoire

I can't think of a single reason to layer Veritas on top of Oracle since 9i RMAN except if it was required for tape.

-- 
Daniel A. Morgan
University of Washington
damorgan_at_x.washington.edu
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