Hi,
I'm no NetApp expert, but as far as I know they have their own piece of
software which integrates their snapshots with oracle.
Creating consistent backups of a database isn't a problem that a
filesystem should solve at all. A simple approach for your problem would
be "Put DB in hot backup mode and then create a snapshot". I'm not sure
if there is a way to integrate RMAN backups with btrfs snapshots. Maybe
an oracle expert could help out.
Kind regards,
Felix Blanke
On 2/20/12 4:29 PM, Shyam Prasad N wrote:
On 02/20/2012 07:49 PM, Andrew Henry wrote:
Will there be support for consistent backups á la NetApp when using
snapshots on btrfs filesystems that contain Oracle databases?
Im not that familiar with NetApp, and don't know whether there needs
to be "extra support" for the Oracle bits for their snapshoting to
work, so please forgive me if this is a silly question.
Andrew
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Hi Andrew,
I don't know how exactly oracle db implements consistent backups, but I
can imagine how.
Oracle db probably runs some sort of script after commit of a database
snapshot which commands NetApp filer to create a snapshot.
If that is so, I don't see the oracle/btrfs configuration to be much
different either. The oracle-side scripts can be made to run btrfs
snapshot creation commands in this case.
Hope that helps.
Thanks,
Shyam
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