Re: High speed backup devices

Bob Obenour CDS (pp001868_at_interramp.com) wrote:
: Our Oracle database is currently 128 Gig in size and growing. Our company does
: Third Party Billing and Recovery for State and commercial Medical Insurance. At present we
: are doing hot backups. The daily backup procedure places tablespaces in backup mode and
: then copies the data files to a scratch disk where they are later backed up to tape. This holding
: area is 10 gig in size. It takes operations a whole 8 hour shift to back these files to 8mm DAT.
: At present it takes 12 day cycle to backup all the datafiles.
:
: We have tried using our magneto-optical juke, but it still is slow in writting and takes a whole day to
: re-format for the next time thru.
:
: Any suggestions besides praying?
:
: The device must be able use media that can be removed for off site storage.
:

How about buying a bunch of 8mm drives and backup software capable of parallel operation. Check out www.legato.com for Networker software, and www.datatools.com for Sql Back Track for Oracle backup software that will interface with Networker.

Tony Received on Sat Feb 10 1996 - 00:00:00 CET