Re: OPS Backup/Restore/Recovery

Rich Woods wrote:
>
> Neil Greene wrote:
> >
> > > Anybody have suggestions or recommendations for a 3rd party (vendor) tool
> > > that handles backup/restore/recovery of Oracle Parallel Server (OPS) in a
> > > HP-UX 10 environment. It would also be helpful if you can dissuade or
> > > warn me about a tool.
> >
> > You could use Networker to handle your tape management issues and
> > SQL*BackTrack from Datatools to backup your Oracle databases. Doesn't
> > really matter that they are parallel servers, you just need to be able to
> > back up the raw partitions. In this case, Networker would NOT require
> > the RAWASM option to backup raw filesystems since SBT would be handling
> > this situation. You can also do HOT backups.
> >
> > -- Neil
>
> For backup purposes, it does matter that this is an OPS environment as
> you've two instances that have separate control files and redo threads.
> You need both threads of redo in order to perform recovery.
> --
> Rich Woods
> Technical Field Support Specialist, Oracle Corporation, USA
> The above statements and opinions are my own and do not
> necessarily represent those of Oracle Corporation.

  Isn't a bit of a pain to make sure the redo threads are applied in the right order ? If I were running OPS, I would sure want to make sure my backup tool understood OPS and took care of the whole none yards. Otherwise why buy it ?

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