Re: AW: RMAN Backup to tape or disk (SAN) ???

I wonder why so much?

We're on the West Coast of the U.S. and we're paying about $2500 US for those licences.

Jared

On Wednesday 07 May 2003 05:52, Daiminger, Helmut wrote:
> Jared,
>
> Veritas told us that an Oracle Agent is about 8000 Euros (1 Euro = $1.10
> US) and we would need nine of them. This would buy us quite a few disks.
>
> We are thinking about making the "backup disk" so big that it can hold at
> least two weeks worth of backups. Anything older will be moved to tape.
> Does that sound reasonable?
>
> Thanks,
> Helmut
>
> > -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
> > Von: Jared Still [mailto:jkstill_at_cybcon.com]
> > Gesendet: Mittwoch, 7. Mai 2003 02:21
> > An: ORACLE-L_at_fatcity.com; Daiminger, Helmut
> > Betreff: Re: RMAN Backup to tape or disk (SAN) ???
> >
> >
> >
> > Helmut,
> >
> > What amount of $$ is 'horribly expensive"?
> >
> > The Oracle Agent for Veritas is about $2500 per
> > server if I recall correctly. They don't give it away,
> > but it isn't *that* much.
> >
> > Someone else said that there SA could buy a lot of
> > disk for the price of the agent. In a SAN, $2500 will
> > generally buy you about 2.5 disks.
> >
> > Personally, I dislike backing up to disk. That creates
> > a logical disconnect between RMAN and the Veritas
> > backup catalog.
> >
> > ie. You can't then just tell RMAN to restore your database
> > to anytime other than what is on the backup disks. If the
> > backup files are lost/damaged, you must be certain to restore
> > all of the files needed Oracle files from tape to disk, then
> > do your recovery.
> >
> > Jared
> >
> > On Tuesday 06 May 2003 05:25, Daiminger, Helmut wrote:
> > > Hi!
> > >
> > > We are about to redesign our backup environment. All Oracle Backups
> > > (8i,
> > > 9i) are done with RMAN. Now we are unsure whether to have
> >
> > RMAN backup to
> >
> > > tape or to a specific area on our SAN.
> > >
> > > Backing up to the SAN (i.e. disk) is an option, since you
> >
> > don't need
> >
> > > Veritas NetBackup Oracle Agents (which are horribly expensive). We
> > > would have RMAN write the backups to disk and then move
> >
> > those backups
> >
> > > to tape. The disk will be about the size to hold two weeks worth of
> > > RMAN backups.
> > >
> > > Would this make sense? Or is it preferable to backup to tape, no
> > > matter what?
> > >
> > > This is 8i & 9i on Sun Solaris.
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > > Helmut
> >
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