We use RMAN for a backup of a smaller (<300 GB) DB. It doesn't require stopping the database.
For a large (>2 TB) Oracle DB we do the BCV thing outlined below. You don't have to run Oracle on the media server because you do a standard rather than an oracle backup. (E.G. do not use RMAN - just backup the filesystems or raw devices as if they were any other.) We also use this backup to do refreshes of our TEST/DEV/TRAINING environments. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of smpt Sent: Wednesday, October 11, 2006 4:00 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; 'Nardello, John'; veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Backing up Oracle RAC You can use more RMAN streams and buffers (10 streams with 256k buffers) -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, October 11, 2006 10:10 AM To: Nardello, John; veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Backing up Oracle RAC You could do something like this Put the database in backup mode split a BCV of Take the database out of backup mode Mount the BCV on media server Run a file backup of the mounted BCV dismount BCV Of cause every backup will be a full backup I assume you have looked into incremental with RMAN Regards Michael On Tue, 10 Oct 2006 14:38:38 -0700, Nardello, John wrote > Does anyone have some suggestions for backing up larger Oracle RAC > instances, where across-the-wire backups will not be fast enough to > complete a backup within the window ? > We are _really_ trying to avoid deploying a Media Server with Oracle > running on it just to mount up BCVs of these databases, but we're not > sure what other options we actually have. > > Any thoughts ? > - John Nardello > > _______________________________________________ > Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu > http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu -- Cybercity Webhosting (http://www.cybercity.dk) _______________________________________________ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu _______________________________________________ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu _______________________________________________ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
