Depending on your storage subsystem, perhaps storage-level snapshots might be an option? They often seem to be the best choice for VLDBs.
From: Suhail Bamzena <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, May 15, 2020 7:23 AM To: Christoph Berg <[email protected]> Cc: Rory Campbell-Lange <[email protected]>; [email protected]; [email protected] Subject: EXTERNAL: Re: Inherited an 18TB DB & need to backup Hi Christoph Thats very high on my agenda.. but need to make sure i can backup this beast to start with.. On Fri, 15 May 2020, 17:08 Christoph Berg, <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: Re: Rory Campbell-Lange > On 15/05/20, Suhail Bamzena > ([email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>) wrote: > > Hello All, > > I have very recently inherited an 18 TB DB that is running version 9.2. Push hard to get that upgraded to a supported version. Christoph
