Re: Backup to NFS

On May 8, 11:21 am, sybrandb <sybra..._at_gmail.com> wrote:
> On May 8, 11:11 am, Cristian Cudizio <cristian.cudi..._at_yahoo.it>
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> > On May 8, 11:08 am, Cristian Cudizio <cristian.cudi..._at_yahoo.it>
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> > > On May 8, 10:27 am, sybrandb <sybra..._at_gmail.com> wrote:
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> > > > On May 8, 9:57 am, NetComrade <netcomradeNS..._at_bookexchange.net>
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> > > > > If you backup to NFS, which device you use, and what throughput do you
> > > > > achieve. We'd like to be able to backup multiple db's at once, so
> > > > > something in the range of 100Megs+/sec is what we are looking for
> > > > > (obviously for cheap). Storage size is a few TB.
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> > > > > (need to buy a new one)
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> > > > > .......
> > > > > We run Oracle 9iR2,10gR1/2 on RH4/RH3 and Solaris 10 (Sparc)
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> > > > Did you ever try to restore from such a NFS backup?
> > > > I did. It wasn't funny. I never got the database back.
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> > > > --
> > > > Sybrand Bakker
> > > > Senior Oracle DBA
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> > > why?
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> > I've never tried, but i'm just curious to undertand what problems may
> > arise.
> > thanks.
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> > Cristian Cudizio
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> The savesets were incomplete, causing several datafiles NOT to
> restore. IIRC, one of them was the SYSTEM tablespace.
> Note: Absolutely no sign of any problem during backup!
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> --
> Sybrand Bakker
> Senior Oracle DBA

But do you think it was caused by NFS? Similar problems arised to me with backup on
NTFS on windows machines (corrupted backups).

Thanks,

 Cristian Cudizio

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http://cristiancudizio.wordpress.com Received on Tue May 08 2007 - 05:21:36 CDT