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Best Practices for Oracle 11g Backup and Recovery using RMAN and Dell EqualLogic Snapshots
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Comparison of backup and recovery methods ................................................................................. 30
8 Best practices for backup and recovery ...................................................................................................... 32
8.1 Use a Virtualized Database Backup Server ......................................................................................... 32
8.2 RMAN backup .......................................................................................................................................... 32
8.3 Snapshot reserve space sizing .............................................................................................................. 32
8.4 Point-in-time recovery using Oracle FLASHBACK DATABASE ....................................................... 33
8.5 Discovering ORACLE ASM disks on the backup server .................................................................... 33
8.6 Persistent device mapping on the virtualized backup server .......................................................... 33
8.7 Upgrade Broadcom 57711 driver .......................................................................................................... 33
8.8 RMAN configuration parameters .......................................................................................................... 34
Appendix A Test system component details ................................................................................................ 35
Appendix B Automation of snapshot-based backup .................................................................................. 37
Related publications ............................................................................................................................................... 39