RE: VMWARE Snapshots to backup Oracle

From: Keith Moore <kmoore_at_zephyrus.com>
Date: Tue, 6 Jul 2010 20:29:57 -0500
Message-ID: <015c01cb1d73$ecef6e70$c6ce4b50$_at_com>

I've used Veritas snapshots before and it worked great. The concept should be the same. Database files are only in backup mode for a couple of minutes while the snapshot is created.  

It was also great for using one physical development database as multiple
'virtual' databases, one for each developer. That feature wasn't put to
nearly as much use as I would have liked but the concept proved to be good. And if a developer mucks up his copy, just create a fresh snapshot.  

Keith  

From: oracle-l-bounce_at_freelists.org [mailto:oracle-l-bounce_at_freelists.org] On Behalf Of Andrew Kerber
Sent: Tuesday, July 06, 2010 11:19 AM
To: post.ethan_at_gmail.com
Cc: oracle-l
Subject: Re: VMWARE Snapshots to backup Oracle  

I am not using it, but I understand that it works as long as you use the alter database begin backup command prior to taking the snapshot (and the alter database end backup command after taking it).

On Tue, Jul 6, 2010 at 10:18 AM, Ethan Post <post.ethan_at_gmail.com> wrote:

Anyone using snapshots to backup Oracle? Does it work? Anything I need to know?

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