Mathew Brown wrote: > Hi, > I was wondering if anyone uses Bacula with Oracle RMAN (disk-based) > backups instead of purchasing Legato, Tivoli or Veritas Agent? If so, > could you kindly share your experience. Thanks. > Hi Matthew,
I use a combination of bacula and oracle rman disk based backups here. I have a solaris 9 oracle 9.2 server (sunfire 280r) which has enough local disk to hold the database and about a weeks worth of archivelogs . The database is around 300gb and the ROC is about 13gb per week. What I did was to use a 500gb mirrored filesystem on one of my linux servers (dual opteron 248) and nfs share it with the oracle server, via gigabit ethernet. Once it is nfs mounted on the oracle box (which is effectively an NFS client) I use rman disk based backups to backup to the nfs server. This works really well and even an *old* sun box is capable of throwing 40+mb/s over the nfs. I then run bacula on the linux box (single sdlt 320) and do a full backup each monday and differentials every other day. My oracle full backup happens on a monday night which is after the linux boxes full backup which means that my 300gb full oracle backup gets backed up to tape every day until the next full backup courtesy of the differential backup. However, in practice I only leave the 300gb full backup around until it has been backup up to 3 seperate tapes (I've been bitten by the faulty tape thing once or twice over the years !!). I also handle oracle archive logs with cron scheduled rman backups to the nfs mount. This works very well and allows me to be able to do database point in time recovery fairly easily. I'd like more disk space so that I could keep the full oracle backup online for a month or so and then do differentials every day. Maybe the boss will spring for 2 more 750gb sata drives ;-) Hope this is informative. Brian. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
