Re: OPS Backup/Restore/Recovery

Scott Kelley wrote:
>
> 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 ?
> --
>

Oracle's latest release of their Enterprise Backup & Recovery tool (OEBU), release 2.1 is supposed to perform automatic recovery. Meaning it understands the proper order of the redo logs and applies them automatically. When you perform a restore you tell OEBU that you want to recover to a point in time or to recover to the last point before the failure.....

I believe the orginal poster was looking at OPS on HP/UX. OEBU is supported on HP/UX but according to Oracle's web site only by Legato (www.legato.com0 & OpenVision (www.ov.com). Received on Mon Mar 17 1997 - 00:00:00 CST