RMAN on RAW partitions? [message #71366] |
Tue, 22 October 2002 17:40 |
Dinesh
Messages: 31 Registered: October 2001
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Hello,
Hope you are doing good!
Has anyone used RMAN?
We intend to use it for database backup on the production Oracle9i database on Solaris8.I have seen documentation mentioning RMAN backup for database files but can it be applied for RAW partition backup? We have the database files on RAW partitions (RAID5) and we are more concerned on that aspect. Is there any other caveats that I should be careful of?
Thanks in advance for your help...
Have a nice one!
Dinesh
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Re: RMAN on RAW partitions? [message #71395 is a reply to message #71366] |
Sun, 27 October 2002 22:07 |
Trifon Anguelov
Messages: 514 Registered: June 2002
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Oracle offers the same backup strategy for both filesystems and raw devices. If you are using shell scripts for hot backup, then ALTER TABLESPACE "tablespace" BEGIN BACKUP; , on the OS level, use the dd command to backup the raw device and ALTER TABLESPACE "tablespace" END BACKUP;
If using RMAN it doesn't matter if the datafile is a filesystem or raw device. RMAN will do the backup using the proper OS command.
Hope that helps,
clio_usa
OCP - DBA
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