I forwarded your suggestion, together, with more information on the Veritas Foundation Suite
to the team negotiating the hardware solution with the vendors [my involvement
came in as I was allowed to us about how database backups in a SAN
were to be done].
Hemant
At 09:29 AM 07-02-03 -0800, you wrote:
Hemant, Could you check what happens if all the filesystems that were 'shadow copied' were VxFS filesystems? I would assume that Veritas maintains the same formats across *nix versions.... Btw, I haven't implemented Heterogenous implementations on a SAN, but am just suggesting an alternate... Let us know what they say!John Kanagaraj Oracle Applications DBA DBSoft Inc (W): 408-970-7002 I don't know what the future holds for me, but I do know who holds my future! ** The opinions and statements above are entirely my own and not those of my employer or clients ** > -----Original Message----- > From: Hemant K Chitale [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Wednesday, February 05, 2003 5:34 PM > To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L > Subject: SAN, Heterogenous environments, Backups > > > > We are considering implementing a SAN, > using Sun StorEdge SS9970 [OEM from Hitachi], where database > servers will be a mix of Sun Solaris and HP HPUX > running Oracle 8i, 9i, 9iRAC [in phase-2]. > > As the database files will be on File Systems [Sun or HP], > the solutions provider says that backups of the > HP file systems cannot be done by the backup server > running Solaris. > The proposal is to use "shadow copies". The Sun Engineer > says that the "shadow copy" must be mounted as a file > system on the backup server and as the backup server is > a Sun server it wouldn't be able to mount the HP file system. > > How are Heterogenous implementations on a SAN done ? How are > backups done ? > > Hemant K Chitale > http://hkchital.tripod.com > -- > Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.net > -- > Author: Hemant K Chitale > INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Fat City Network Services -- 858-538-5051 http://www.fatcity.com > San Diego, California -- Mailing list and web hosting services > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To REMOVE yourself from this mailing list, send an E-Mail message > to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (note EXACT spelling of 'ListGuru') and in > the message BODY, include a line containing: UNSUB ORACLE-L > (or the name of mailing list you want to be removed from). You may > also send the HELP command for other information (like subscribing). > -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.net -- Author: John Kanagaraj INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fat City Network Services -- 858-538-5051 http://www.fatcity.com San Diego, California -- Mailing list and web hosting services --------------------------------------------------------------------- To REMOVE yourself from this mailing list, send an E-Mail message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (note EXACT spelling of 'ListGuru') and in the message BODY, include a line containing: UNSUB ORACLE-L (or the name of mailing list you want to be removed from). You may also send the HELP command for other information (like subscribing).
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