Have tried many -:

Use RMAN with the FDR/Upstream interface.  Works great. 

Several successful recoveries in a wind tunnel (DR site).

Gerard


-----Original Message-----
From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of David 
Boyes
Sent: Monday, August 09, 2010 2:34 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: Consistency groups for ZLinux Oracle environment

How are you taking the backup? If you're using anything but an application 
running inside the virtual machine (eg RMAN to disk, or another app that uses 
the Oracle APIs to get the data), you're going to lose, and you get the problem 
you've observed. The virtual machine probably has loads of stuff in RAM which 
the disk controllers may not know about yet, so your PIT copy is missing stuff. 

You either have to take the virtual machine down, or do your backups from 
inside the virtual machine. I'd suggest the latter.

--db

On 8/8/10 9:38 PM, "Joseph Higgins" <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> Is there any way to maintain consistency for point in time copies 
> without suspending the server IO?

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