HP Application Recovery Manager software Integration guide (March 2008)

2 Application Recovery
Manager Oracle integration
Introduction
You can employ a variety of backup strategies to best meet your system priorities. If
database availability is the highest priority, for instance, your backup strategy should
include online backups that are performed frequently to minimize recovery time. This
strategy limits downtime, but uses system resources more intensively. The Application
Recovery Manager zero downtime backup (ZDB) functionality offers online backup
capabilities with minimal degradation of the application system performance.
Supported disk arrays
The following disk arrays can be used for ZDB of Oracle:
• HP StorageWorks Disk Array XP (XP)
• HP StorageWorks Enterprise Virtual Array (EVA)
Advantages
The advantages of using Application Recovery Manager Oracle ZDB integration are:
• ZDB reduces the performance degradation of the application system.
• The tablespaces are in backup mode (online backup) or the database is shut
down (offline backup) only during the short period required to create a replica
(split the mirror disks or create snapshots).
• The load to the application system is significantly reduced. Following the replica
creation, tape backup using third–party backup software can be started on the
copied data, at leisure, using a separate backup system.
The Application Recovery Manager Oracle ZDB integration offers online and offline
backup of your Oracle Server System (application system).
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