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Background Historically most of the conversations I have regarding Oracle Recovery Manager (RMAN) have been around the use of NFS storage, and Oracle Direct NFS (dNFS). However, more recently with the explosion in the use of Amazon S3 object storage, the topic of RMAN and S3 gets frequently raised. In Part 1 of this series... Continue Reading →
As database professionals we are the custodians of our organisations data and in the event of any data related issue are usually one of the first on the scene. Over the last few years we have seen an increasing number of ransomware attacks, this has been headline news across the globe impacting all industries, with... Continue Reading →
Background This week I was asked an interesting question can Oracle dNFS and Oracle Recovery Manager (RMAN) use auto mounts, not knowing the answer I thought I better find out. What is Autofs ? Autofs, also known as automounter mounts filesystems on-demand when they are accessed rather than maintaining the mounts all the time. The... Continue Reading →
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 →
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 →
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 →