Background Historically most of the conversations I have regarding Oracle Recovery Manager (RMAN) are around the use of NFS storage such as a Pure Storage FlashBlade, and Oracle Direct NFS (dNFS). However, with more Oracle customers deploying databases in Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) and / or using Object Storage for backups I thought it was... Continue Reading →
Reducing Downtime with Switch Database to Copy
In this Blog I am going to show how the Oracle database 'switch database to copy' can be used to avoid lengthy restore times and therefore minimise downtime in the event of a database disaster. RMAN backup status $ rman target=/ Recovery Manager: Release 19.0.0.0.0 - Production on Wed Apr 8 10:27:26 2020 Version 19.3.0.0.0... Continue Reading →
Oracle database cloning magic with dNFS and CloneDB.
In this Blog Post I will show Oracle's CloneDB, dNFS and Pure Storage FlashBlade snapshots can be used to create space efficient Oracle database clone(s) on a sparse file system. Oracle RMAN backup Source database dNFS mount I will start be taking an RMAN image backup of my Oracle ASM 'labs' database to my dNFS... Continue Reading →