Re: Backup Utilities

From: Neil Greene <ngreene_at_laoc.SHL.com>
Date: 1998/02/07
Message-ID: <MPG.f467b01e34dd617989680@news.internetMCI.com>#1/1

In article <34DB2663.93A_at_osu.edu>, lee.98_at_osu.edu says...
> We have a serious problem with SQL-BackTrack with HP Omniback devie
> backups: HP dropped support for its old version of Omniback utility
> called omnistream, on which SQL-BackTrack depend to talk to Omniback.
>
> Our old version of Omniback 2.1 often has a mount request problem, which
> requires human interventions.
>
> We looked at other options for backup and recovery:
> 1. Oracle Enterprise backup utility
> 2. EMC's EDM system
> 3. Possiblity of SQL-Backtrack with Legato Networker or IBM's ADSM
>
> We like SQL-Backtrack's automatic recovery procedures as well as its
> compression on the fly during backups.
>
> I would like to know your experience and info concerning what utilities
> you use and future plans for Oracle backup/recovery

I liked SBT with Solstice Backup (Networker) on Solaris 2.5.1. Except when we noticed problems on the Networker side managing the indexes when the size grew beyound 1GB in size. -- Neil Received on Sat Feb 07 1998 - 00:00:00 CST