Jeffery,
 
The DBE for Oracle is a product that has many more tools for Oracle
including Quick I/O and Cached Quick I/O.  It also has the pieces for
Storage Checkpoints, which is the ability to take snapshots of your database
or specific tablespaces in your database to do faster recoveries.  In
addition it has the bits for Block Level Incremental Backups (BLIB) which is
the ability to write those Storage Checkpoints to tape.  BLIB requires you
to have NetBackup installed as well.
 
Even if you use Storage Checkpoints, you should still be doing hot (or cold)
database backups.  So from my point of view the Database Edition for Oracle
is not a replacement for doing hot database backups with the Oracle
Extension for NBU, but rather an essential piece to the whole solution.  
 
 

Bill Wiessner 


 <http://www.veritas.com/> VERITAS Software 


Systems Engineer DoD/Intelligence 


Office:    410-877-7689 


Cell:       410-804-3321 

 

-----Original Message-----
From: Jeffrey Barber [mailto:jab AT swoop.2y DOT net]
Sent: Tuesday, May 29, 2001 11:37 PM
To: 'veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu'
Subject: [Veritas-bu] Whats the Difference?



Hey guys 
  
I have a copy of Netbackup 3.4 Database Agents (Oracle) and a copy of 
Database Edition 2.1.1 for Oracle. I am trying to figure out what the 
difference is between these two products. Both seem to be able to perform 
hot backups. 

Please share your thoughts on this. 

Thanks 
Jeffrey 'J' Barber 

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