RE: SAN, Heterogenous environments, Backups

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!

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Hemant K Chitale [mailto:hkchital_at_singnet.com.sg]
> 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
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