>> 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
I thought Oracle's hot_backup was specifically designed to work with snapshots.
I.e. freeze Oracle --> xfs_freeze --> create snapshot --> unfreeze xfs -->
unfreeze Oracle
If you are going to have it in that mode for the entire duration of your
backup, you may have problems. In particular, I don't think the write buffers
are all that huge.
Even worse, if you go into hot_backup for an hour or so, and you have a machine
crash during this time, your new data is lost!!!!
If you do want to try to go disk to disk extremely rapidly, you will need to
either not use xfs_freeze, on mount your drive with -noatime.
Greg Freemyer
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