Rob Turk wrote:
> "DA Morgan" <damorgan_at_psoug.org> wrote in message
> news:1187990746.901084_at_bubbleator.drizzle.com...
>>> It's a backup application. The vendor recently decided to drop support
>>> for their Oracle RMAN integration module on HP Itanium (lack of market
>>> penetration) and one of our clients has several of these running in
>>> production. Rather than force the client to go to another backup tool
>>> (lots of work with 150+ servers) I was looking for an alternative way to
>>> get to the Oracle data safely. Oracle RMAN on HP PA-Risc and Linux are
>>> still supported by the vendor.
>>>
>>> Rob
>> If I had a choice between anyone's tool and RMAN ... I would choose
>> RMAN every time. Dump the application.
>> --
>> Daniel A. Morgan
>> University of Washington
>
> Not really an option... The backup application takes care of 150+ other
> systems, so dumping it would mean adding management to the environment. They
> would then have to manage the backup application as well as RMAN.
>
> The other option is to replace the backup application site-wide with
> something that does still support RAC/RMAN on HP Itanium. That would be a
> costly and time consuming exersize as well.
>
> Rob
Let it back up the other 149 apps then. Using it for Oracle is not "best
practice."
--
Daniel A. Morgan
University of Washington
damorgan_at_x.washington.edu (replace x with u to respond)
Puget Sound Oracle Users Group
www.psoug.org
Received on Sat Aug 25 2007 - 12:32:54 CDT
