Re: RMAN via NetBackup or Oracle Enterprise Manager/ Grid Control?

"Hope Dundas" <hope.dundas_at_umich.edu> wrote in message news:O184g.27$0s2.7_at_news.itd.umich.edu...
> Hi folks, I'm new here, and I had a question, hopefully not too
> dumb/ignorant. :)
>
> We have two Oracle RAC Clusters running Oracle 10g and an Oracle
> Enterprise Manager/Grid Control server from which we normally manage our
> RMAN backups.
>
> Our backup software is Symantec/Veritas NetBackup Enterprise, which has
> an Oracle option. I'm trying to figure out what, if any, benefit we
> would get by using NetBackup to do the RMAN backups - my instincts say
> that it's better to stick with the Oracle-native solution, but perhaps
> some of you have experience to the contrary? Are there any good reasons
> to use NetBackup to manage the RMAN backups?
>
> What I'm planning on doing is doing RMAN backup-to-disk within
> Enterprise Manager/Grid Control and then have NetBackup just back up the
> backup files on disk.
>
> A bit more about our environment, in case it's relevant:
>
> Oracle 10gR2 (10.2.0.1.0) running on two-node RAC cluster on Windows
> Enterprise SP1, on Dell PowerEdge servers. Storage is on an EMC SAN, and
> the data files live in ASM. I don't think NetBackup can easily access
> ASM - but I've figured out that I can set the backup-to-disk location to
> non-ASM space just fine, which gets around that issue.
>
> Much thanks in advance for any advice you can offer.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Hope Dundas
> Database/Systems Administrator
> University of Michigan
> Housing Information Technology Office

Netbackup just calls RMAN. It doesn't offer much more.

-- 
Terry Dykstra