[FEATURE REQUEST] - Solaris Backup/Recovery

[rwheeler]

Solaris server backups are very slow. We have very large Oracle databases on our Solaris servers around the world that require daily backups. Our manufacturing sites rely on these servers being available 24x7. Any outage needs to be resolved quickly, so production can resume. We use the Flash Recovery Area (FRA) for these backups. All that we want to do is backup the FRA very quickly to a repository. The Solaris agent only provides for network backup. What we need is either Fibre Channel (FC), or Synthetic Full Backup (SFB) to be able to back these up on a daily basis. Adding either, or preferably both, to the Solaris agent backup would resolve all of our issues. The SFB would be the preferred method since it eliminates full Solaris backups which kill our servers and networks. The SFB is one of the best innovations that Veeam has for Linux/Windows. If it could be extended to Solaris, it would resolve all of our backup/recovery issues.

All that we need is a simple filesystem backup of the FRA on these servers that is fast and reliable. The current network backup that requires frequent full backups and incrementals is inadequate.

Best regards,

Rick Wheeler
MEMC LLC
rwheeler@gw-semi.com