Thanks for the many responses. Summary of responses.
Recap of issue. Basically I will have 400 Gig of database on the near
horizon that needs to backed up nightly/binightly. Oracle running in
Parallel server needs to be ran in raw as opposed to cooked.
Recap of Hardware/Software: Digital 4.0b with Truecluster with EMC
dasd towers, running Oracle 7.3.2.3 Parallel Server and Oracle
Replication.
Possible solutions:
1.Digital resells Legato networker as a Digital tool, need Oracle's
backup manager, Networker business suite module for Oracle, a
special licensing option of networker to run on the Cluster.
Positive: Will be a solid tool , which will sold by vendors and is reliable.
I'm haven't tested but have seen benchmarks. Currenlty there is a issue
with certification between versions between vendors . Supposely
resolved this month.
Negative: PRICEY - roughly 15000 grand per node. We have 2 nodes
and 2 clusters. Thats 60000 for backup software.
2.EMC also has a tool called EMC timefinder. Which basically creates
a mirror of the data that can be broken off and backed up offline.
EMC Datamanager Symetric Connect.
Haven't received any prices yet.
Positive: Rapidily syncronize data between all objects of the mirror.
Speed. Backups are done at the hardware level not incurring os, and
database overhead.
Negative: Disk space cost, software cost.
> Previous ......
>
> Currently running Digital 4.0b with truecluster with drds for Oracle
> 7.3.2.3 Parallel Server.
>
> Issue: Trying to setup a feasible backup strategy for backing up the
> raw
> files. About 80 gig worth of drds that change nightly. Currently I am
> running dd to backup raw devices on the weekend but would like to
> decrease my recovery time. Any ideas on tools that would do the job
?
> I do have a trial version of Legato networker but looking at the
> documentation it looks like a filesystem backup tool not a raw tool.
> In the future looking at 400 gig of data nightly on one truecluster so
> need a solution that would be scalable.
>
> Truecluster version, oracle version, digital backup module, oracle
> backup manager all must above a certain level do to problems with
> recovery with past versions. I am throwing this problem out to see
> what
> type of solutions are available.
>
Joseph M. Dunleavy
Senior Engineer
Database Administration
Wyeth Ayerst Laboratories
31 Morehall Road
Frazer, PA 19355
dunleavj_at_labs.wyeth.com
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Received on Thu Aug 21 1997 - 16:09:43 NZST