Veritas Storage Foundation 5.1 SP1: Storage and Availability Management for Oracle (5900-1504, April 2011)

Using third party software

to back up files

This appendix includes the following topics:

■ About using third party software to back up files

■ Using third party software to back up files

About using third party software to back up files

Storage Foundation Enterprise products support the use of third party software

for backing up files. However, Quick I/O is not supported for Storage Foundation

Enterprise products.

Using third party software to back up files

If you are using third party backup software other than Veritas NetBackup, ensure

that it can back up and restore VxFS extent attributes. This is important because

restored Oracle Disk Manager (ODM) files rely on proper extent layouts for best

performance.

Backing up and restoring Oracle Disk Manager files using Oracle RMAN

Oracle allocates Oracle Disk Manager files with contiguous extent layouts for

good database performance. When you restore database files they are allocated

using these extent attributes. If you are using Oracle RMAN's conventional backup

method with any backup software, datafiles are also restored with the proper

extent layouts.

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