Re: How to archive very large Oracle RMAN files to tape?

Thank you for responding. I have tried the LSM bundled with Oracle8 and it worked just fine, but I am unable to work under the terms of the 45- day trial. As soon as possible, I will be licensing Veritas NetBackup, but I was looking for a workaround until I can obtain that.

Thanks again,
Tim

In article <85i2it$jka$1_at_bob.news.rcn.net>,   "Eugene Firyago" <efiryago_at_bisys.com> wrote:
> If you are running Oracle8 on Solaris SPARC (not Intel) edition you
can use
> Legato Storage Manager which shipped with Oracle8. That fasility
provides
> enough flexibility to performe backups of very large databases
directly onto
> a tape using RMAN. See Oracle8 Bakup and Recovery manual for more
> infrmation.
>
> Eugene.
>
> Tim Cuthbertson <timcuth_at_my-deja.com> wrote in message
> news:85g0t2$i97$1_at_nnrp1.deja.com...
> > I am using Oracle RMAN to backup an 80 GB database to three Veritas
> > filesystems on Solaris 2.6. This creates some very large files (20
GB
> > or more). I need to archive these files to DLT-7000 tapes for
> > additional safety. However, I have not been able to find a utility
that
> > can do this.
> >
> > Both cpio and tar work with "large files", but there is still a
maximum
> > file size of 8 GB minus 1 byte.
> >
> > The Veritas vxdump utility can handle the size, but it can only
backup
> > entire filesystems. If I were to need to restore from such backups,
it
> > would cause havoc with the rest of the data on my filesystems.
> >
> > Does anyone know of a commonly available utility that will do this?
> >
> > TIA,
> > Tim
> >
> >
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> > Before you buy.
>
>

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Before you buy. Received on Wed Jan 12 2000 - 12:25:54 CST