Re: Backup to NFS

From: DA Morgan <damorgan_at_psoug.org>
Date: Tue, 08 May 2007 08:30:36 -0700
Message-ID: <1178638235.943633@bubbleator.drizzle.com>

Mladen Gogala wrote:
> On Tue, 08 May 2007 01:27:26 -0700, sybrandb wrote:
>

>> Did you ever try to restore from such a NFS backup? I did. It wasn't
>> funny. I never got the database back.

>
> I must say I've had no such problems. The only problem I had was speed.
> Local backup/restore operations were much faster then the NFS ones.
> NetApp was still much better then a direct backup to tape using Veritas.
> As long as the remote share is properly mounted, I was able to
> backup/restore. The meaning of "properly mounted" is described in the
> Metalink note 359515.1.

An important consideration I should have mentioned before. RMAN and a temporary NFS mount such as:

# mount -t nfs 192.168.20.160:/vol/stage /mnt

will not work: Mount using FSTAB.

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Daniel A. Morgan
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Puget Sound Oracle Users Group
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Received on Tue May 08 2007 - 10:30:36 CDT