RE: Is it Veritas or is it smoke and mirrors? again

[Wolfe Stephen S GS-11 6 MDSS/SGSI]

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Hmmm, sounds like me and what will be my next issue, except I'll be using Veritas to backup to a SAN.

 

I'll watch this thread closely.

 

 

v/r

Stephen S. Wolfe, GS-11, DAFC
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-----Original Message-----
From: Michael Kline [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, July 30, 2003 11:29 AM
To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
Subject: Is it Veritas or is it smoke and mirrors? again

There seems to be some big confusion if Veritas is

working or not...

 

Based on Previous discussions this customer has

the Oracle Veritas agent running, and they do

nightly backups.

 

How ever, I find absolutely NONE of the RMAN

tables updated so they are not using RMAN.

I also find that the alert log has no references

what so ever to "alter tablespace xyz begin

backup" and the "... end backup"...

 

While the agent is there and working, I sure

see no signs that anything is happening as

far as a REAL backup.

 

It's Oracle 9i, but even that, I would think

is going to leave some "hints" that all the

hooks are working and backup is occurring.

 

Recovery has NEVER been tested.

 

 

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