Re: Urgent! Backup Software on NT for a huge Oracle database

On Wed, 11 Aug 1999 11:56:28 -0500, "Dong Tang" <tangd_at_ctcdist.com> wrote:

>Hi:
>
>Our company have a 200+GB mission critical Oracle 8.0.4 database running on
>NT4.0 SP3. Don't ask me why run that size database on NT, it is beyond me.
>The hardwares are Compaq Proliant 5000 with 4 pentiumpro processors, 3 RAIDs
>(108 GB, 108GB and 16GB), two 35/70 DLT tape drives with 15 tape library
>with autoloader.
>Past year we have been using Seagate Backup Exec 7.0 to backup the database.
>This thing is even worse than NT OS, cause us huge problems. I contact
>their technical support, they don't have clue either.
>
>Does anybody know any backup software can run on NT, can work with DLT
>autoloader and tape library and use script to schedule and fire up backup
>jobs? Please help, we have not backuped the database for more than one
>month! Basically, I am waiting for disaster now .
>

We use Legato Networker/Oracle Enterprise manager on a Dell PowerEdge with a DLT changer to do hot backups of a 200G database. While I think the Legato interface sucks, it seems to work fine.

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