On Aug 25, 6:25 am, "Rob Turk" <wipe_this_r.t..._at_rtist.nl> wrote:
> "DA Morgan" <damor..._at_psoug.org> wrote in message
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> >> It's a backup application. The vendor recently decided to drop support
> >> for their Oracle RMAN integration module on HP Itanium (lack of market
> >> penetration) and one of our clients has several of these running in
> >> production. Rather than force the client to go to another backup tool
> >> (lots of work with 150+ servers) I was looking for an alternative way to
> >> get to the Oracle data safely. Oracle RMAN on HP PA-Risc and Linux are
> >> still supported by the vendor.
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> >> Rob
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> > If I had a choice between anyone's tool and RMAN ... I would choose
> > RMAN every time. Dump the application.
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> > Daniel A. Morgan
> > University of Washington
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> Not really an option... The backup application takes care of 150+ other
> systems, so dumping it would mean adding management to the environment. They
> would then have to manage the backup application as well as RMAN.
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> The other option is to replace the backup application site-wide with
> something that does still support RAC/RMAN on HP Itanium. That would be a
> costly and time consuming exersize as well.
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> Rob
RMAN to disk and other tool from disk to tape?
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Received on Sun Aug 26 2007 - 19:31:22 CDT
