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Re: Backup & Recovery

From: Tom Hazeu <hazeu_at_mail.tcbi.com>
Date: Thu, 22 Jul 1999 23:38:38 -0500
Message-ID: <kfSl3.576$p93.207130@homer.alpha.net>


We use ArcServe from Cheyenne with their Oracle DB Agent on our NT systems. Works just fine but I'm not sure what other platforms it available on.

Brian Peasland <peasland_at_email.msn.com> wrote in message news:uLNHefL1#GA.344_at_cpmsnbbsa05...
>
> Glen Gorman wrote in message <3794B079.4712F51F_at_nbnet.nb.ca>...
> >I was wondering what alternatives there are for the Legato Stroage
> >system for Oracle backup and recovery?
>
>
> I don't know of any, but I thought I would give my 2 cents worth. From
what
> I understand, the problem with Legato and hot backups is that a datafile
in
> a tablespace that's online can not be truly backed up since it can be
> modified while the backup is running. To counter this, we backup the
> tablespace (using Oracle hot backup scripts) to another subdirectory.
Legato
> can then back up that datafile. It's kind of a kludge, but it's the best
we
> have. I think someone could make some decent money developing a product
that
> has hooks into Oracle. When this product goes to back up disk files
> belonging to a tablespace, the product issues the ALTER TABLESPACE ts_name
> BEGIN BACKUP command. Then it issues the END backup command when the
> tablespace's disk files are backed up.
>
> My $0.02 worth!
> Brian Peasland
> peasland_at_msn.com
>
>
Received on Thu Jul 22 1999 - 23:38:38 CDT

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