RE: Veritas like RMAN?

Can "they" point to backup sets from which you can test recovery? As someone else mentioned, that's the crucial issue.

There are a couple of possibilities:
Veritas can do volume mirroring, for example. I haven't used this at the Veritas level but we do something similar on our Hitachi SAN (to generate a development image, not backup). The SAN mirror instructions say that we have to put the DB in hot backup mode and quiesce the database during the split, which seems a bit like belt and suspenders to me (how can you get a split block if the database is quiesced?) but that's what we do. I'd guess Veritas mirroring would require at least one of the two steps, both of which should show up in the alert log.

> From: Michael Kline [mailto:mkline1_at_comcast.net]
> Sent: Wednesday, July 23, 2003 12:39 PM
> To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
> Subject: Veritas like RMAN?
>
>
> I found no signs of RMAN being used in
> any way shape or form...
>
> I've been told they are doing "hot" backups
> using Veritas... HOWEVER, the alert log shows
> no signs what so ever of "alter tablespace
> xyz begin/end backup"...
>
> Can it do a good backup backing up live
> DB files and leaving no signs what so
> ever that backup took place.
>
> Is Veritas capable of this?
>
> If so, why is there a Veritas interface
> to RMAN???
>
> Confusion, confusion...
>

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