Backup of physical Oracle RAC

[Tos]

Hi

Our customer want backup of Oracle Rac Linux physical by using Veeam.

Veeam Backup & Replication can run backup of Oracke Rac by using Veeam Plug-in for Oracle RMAN.
https://helpcenter.veeam.com/docs/backu ... l?ver=95u4

But we think Veeam Agent for Linux can't run backup of Oracle Rac Linux physical form the following document.
https://helpcenter.veeam.com/docs/agent ... tml?ver=30

So if Oracle Rac occur in trouble, I do not know how to restore it..
Please let me know the best practice of backup/restore of Oracle Rac Linux physical.

Regards
Toshi

[HannesK]

Hello,
with RMAN you can backup your Oracle data. So if you are in trouble, you have your database data.

If you don't wan to manually re-install a failed RAC cluster member (OS), then you could use Veeam Agent for Linux to backup only the OS.

So the combination of both technologies can do the job.

Best regards,
Hannes

[PTide]

If any config files are located on filesystems that are not supported by veeam snapshot you can leverage snapshot-less mode to back up those.

Thanks!

[biohazard156]

We run physical Oracle RAC servers and just like HannesK said the rman backup utility is backing up the database and offloading it to alternative storage while veeam is backing up the OS and multipath's for the system. If you are using ASM it would be not efficient to backup the ASM disks vs. utilizing the rman utility . With our Exagrid we are able to do full backups everyday 3TB in 55 mins with rman. you can also utilize incremental if that is your choice of backup.

From what i remember the shared disks are not supported for backup anyway

[HannesK]

From what i remember the shared disks are not supported for backup anyway

could you describe that more in detail? I'm not sure whether this is relevant for RMAN backups.

[rafaelcaldas]

@HannesK , could you help me?

I was reading the documentation and I noticed that VAL doesn't support ASM disks and RAC.

To be able to backup the physical Oracle RAC environment on Azure, and restore the entire environment when necessary on cloud, I thought of the procedure below, but using RMAN.



I'll use CloudMobility to migrate the physical machine to the cloud and I use RMAN to backup the local datebase to the cloud as well.

I'm in the right way? Could this work?

[HannesK]

Hello,
I'm not an Oracle expert. But I feel that it is not a good idea to do a conversion of a physical Oracle RAC cluster to Azure. You can try it out, but I don't believe that this somehow works.

I would setup Oracle in Azure and then restore the RMAN backup.

Best regards,
Hannes

[PTide]

Hello @rafaelcaldas

I'll use CloudMobility to migrate the physical machine to the cloud and I use RMAN to backup the local datebase to the cloud as well.

And how is that different from using VAL for physical machine backup and RMAN to back up the database? : )

Thanks!