I do not know if that would be the answer. Can you dedup an Oracle hot backup 
using DD? Is anyone using DD for dedup of the DB running in local containers. 
Unfortunately someone made the decision to go down this road and I need a real 
world solution. I do not have time or the resources to eval and test different 
solutions.

Thanks for you input.



EDWARD COTY

LEAD STORAGE ENGINEER, LCNA, NACP

WORK - 973-533-2098

CELL - 973-296-0918

EDWARD.COTY AT AIG DOT COM


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Hello,
Would DataDomain VTL apply to your issue ? It can do dedupe and replication.
Thanks



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All,

We seem to be on the cutting edge and no vendor seems to have the right answer. 
I am wondering if anyone has been down this road and has anything that might be 
helpful.

Environment

Solaris 10 containers running Oracle, UDB, and SYBASE databases.

Our first option would be to use frame based replication. EMC replication 
manager is not supported in containers and HDS has no frame based replication 
tool.

We are now looking at using the modules to run hot backups to physical/virtual 
tape. We are working with the vendor to see if we can present FC tape devices 
to the local zones.

We could continue down the road of DB dumps but we are using up too much 
storage to accomplish this. We have thought about clustering the DB dump file 
systems to a dedicated storage node and having the DB dump file systems backed 
up that way but again we are trying to minimize our SAN consumption.

Has anyone in Happy Backup land been presented with these challenges and 
implemented anything that works remotely well.

We are talking about over 100 DB instances over 48 physical servers with I am 
sure 100 local containers.


EDWARD COTY

LEAD STORAGE ENGINEER, LCNA, NACP

WORK - 973-533-2098

CELL - 973-296-0918

EDWARD.COTY AT AIG DOT COM



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