Re: NETAPP Snap Manager for Oracle backups

On 09/15/2016 08:12 AM, Beckstrom Jeffrey wrote:
> For those of you using NETAPP storage, do you use Snap Manager to take
> your database backups. If so, do you still run RMAN backups as well?
>
> Jeffrey Beckstrom
> Lead Database Administrator
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Hi jeffrey,

Oracle doesn't recognize snapshot as backups, which means that you will have to backup archive logs using RMAN. You can revert to the snapshot or restore a file from snapshot, but for the point in time recovery, you need archive logs. Also, snapshots are relatively expensive to maintain on the primary storage for a long time. Hopefully, you have some method for backing them up to a cheaper storage?

Regards

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