257 Posts

December 7th, 2007 00:00

Hi Rod
You are actually in the Replication Manager Forums where the majority of watchers/visitors to this forum would not have any exposure (yet!) to RecoverPoint.
You probably may not recieve an replies on your post.

While there is no forum yet for RecoverPoint as you well know (I have seen your post) :-) - we are striving to get this up and running.


There are many instances of RP with Oracle in the field.
What OS is Oracle running on and what version of RP are you using?

Thanks
James.

7 Posts

December 7th, 2007 08:00

Hello James,
Thanks for working to getting a Recover Point forum up. Today we have HP-UX hosts and will be building out Red Hat servers in 2008. We have some fairly large databases to replicate and Recover Point seems very fast and simple to operate. It would be great to correspond with other clients to see what experience with Oracle they encountered. We are concerned with the aspect of pushing the database and doing Oracle "crash recoveries". We think we have some ways to mitigate that with bookmarks?

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305 Posts

December 10th, 2007 17:00

Hi Rod, and James
I have moved this thread into the new RecoverPoint Forum! :)
Julie
Forums Admin

257 Posts

December 11th, 2007 01:00

Hi Rod

Well, where do we start...
I recommend firstly you acustomize yourself to the can and can-nots of RecoverPoint.
Have a detailed look over the RecoverPoint support matrix on eLab.
https://elabnavigator.emc.com/

The .pdf is here - should be the same link for both you and I
https://elabnavigator.emc.com/emcpubs/elab/esm/pdf/EMC_RecoverPoint.pdf

Currently, there are different scripting approaches to replicating Oracle, depending on the customer requirements. If you would like a crash-consistent copy, then a bookmarked copy of Oracle is good enough, as long as you have the other entities of Oracle replicated too (Control, arch redo, online redo, DBs)

some people peform scripting
sqlplus begin backup,
take abookmark
copy the online logs
mount the bookmark
copy over the redo logs
online the DB with redo.

Lets see if more people reply with their particular experiences.
James.



RP Info
http://software.emc.com/products/software_az/recoverpoint.htm
http://software.emc.com/collateral/storage_software/wp_recoverpoint_oracle_db_recov.pdf
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