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Quoting Eyal Shani, from the post of Tue, 11 Feb: > hi all, > > A customer want to install Oracle Real Application Cluster on Red Had > Advanced server. I know a good psychiatrist I can refer him to when he's done :) > We have a backup problem because the customer uses a windows version of > veritas and dont want to spend money on another backup software. we need to > backup raw device to tapes on another server. do you know any open source > (or free software) we can use (functionality as legato or veritas). its no Free solutions I know of that immitate Legato and their protocols, definitely no such that have passed their verification. backing up the raw devices can be done with dd while the server is down but that would not be efficiant, nor make any sense (you back up data the means anything only at the moment it was read, along with metadata in the undo and redo logs, and the instance's RAM presence). in fact, the only "correct" way I know this should be done with is Rman (Oracle's own recovery manager) which can do veritas but also plain dd to files, tapes and probably remote tapes (via rmt?), while keeping logs for full/differential backups and restores, etc. however, this doesn't have anything to do with linux, nor indeed with Free Software. if anyone here has the idea of how to correctly persorm backups of MySQL and/or postgreSQL, I'll be glad to hear. -- The first name in justice Ira Abramov http://ira.abramov.org/email/ This post is encrypted twice with ROT-13. Documenting or attempting to crack this encryption is illegal.
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