On Wed, 2002-09-25 at 16:27, Austin Gonyou wrote:
> Anyone have an order of operation for something like this?
>
> I was thinking, that while oracle is in hot_backup mode, I would just be
> able to do xfs_dump /dev/sdb /dev/sdaa or some such thing, until all
> volumes are done.
>
> If I don't use xfs_freeze though, is that a good copy?
>
> I'm a bit confused at this point, and wanted to ask the community. TIA
>
freeze and xfsdump are totally different beasts. freeze gives you
a stable image on disk, including all data and metadata from the
buffer cache at the time. Once frozen you need some other mechanism
to take a copy of the disk image.
xfsdump is going to do a file based backup. I cannot speak for
the best point in time to do this to an oracle setup.
Steve
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