On Mon, Feb 20, 2006 at 11:28:56AM -0800, Mitchell Christensen wrote:
I was wondering about the feasibility of using the LVM snapshot facility
to backup/restore Oracle. Does this make sense?
Yes
A few issues that I am concerned about are,
* Would it be any better/faster/cheaper than RMAN (the standard
Oracle backup facility)?
it will work in a different manner,
rman is more complex to handle. but it will give you some more features,
like integrated archive log management and point in time restores.
* Would hot-backups be possible, or would the database need to be
in a quiescent state?
you can do hot backup, but you will need to tell oracle you are doing
so:
you will need to have oracle in archive log mode
you will need to manually set all tablespaces in backup mode:
alter tablespace XXX begin backup; (for all tablespaces)
alter system switch logfile;
do your backup including the archive logs
alter tablespace XXX end backup; (for all tablespaces)
it is a simple sql script to code
* Is anyone else out there doing this (or anything similar)?
sure
* Is it reasonable to expect that I could simply take a snapshot
of all Oracle related files and be able to restore a viable Oracle
instance from that snapshot?
after restore you will have to "recover database" to apply the archive
logs and make the database consistent.
L.
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