[PLUG] Linux backup option

[David R. Meyer]

If you're looking for a great Linux-based backup that can do other OS's
as well as your databases in hot mode, check out CA's ARCserve for
Linux.  It rocks.

Dave

> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: Re: [PLUG] Linux backup option
> From: Dwight Hubbard <dwight.hubbard at gmail.com>
> Date: Mon, September 12, 2005 12:17 pm
> To: "General Linux/UNIX discussion and help, civil and on-topic"
> <plug at lists.pdxlinux.org>
> 
> What are you looking to back up?
> 
> Do you want to be able to backup the filesystem or the database or both?
> 
> If you want to back up the database, what methods would you consider 
> adequate:
> export and backup export files as part of a filesystem backup
> 
> put the database in archive log mode and do a backup and take it back out of 
> archive log mode when finished
> 
> have extra disk to mirror the database to which you put into archive log 
> mode and break the mirror and then backup the mirror
> 
> hotbackup using EBU or RMAN
> 
> If you want to backup the database and just backups of the exports aren't 
> adequate it will cost you some money either for extra disk to use for 
> mirroring/archive logs or the purchase of a commercial backup client like 
> Legato Networker, Symantec Netbackup or Arkeia with the oracle backup 
> modules. In some cases you might want to do both.
> 
> I personally have backed up oracle hot using RMAN or both Legato Networker 
> and Netbackup, they both work well, but neither is cheap.
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