Thursday, March 23, 2023

Why DBCS (Oracle Base Database Service) in OCI can make a DBA's life much easier (even with BYOL)

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DBCS (now named Oracle Base Database service, but I will call it DBCS throughout this post) in OCI  can help make a DBA's life easier.  ...
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Wednesday, March 1, 2023

Oracle Database recovery using Incremental merge, snapshots, OMF and "switch to copy"

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I work with backup and recovery of the Oracle Database, and sometimes this means looking at the Incremental Merge backup strategy.  I know t...
Wednesday, November 16, 2022

ZDLRA - Quick Start Guide

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 This post is intended to be a Quick Start Guide for those who are new to ZDLRA (RA for short).  I spend part of time working with customers...
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Thursday, October 6, 2022

Estimated space for Compliance Window on RA

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 In this post  I will go through how to estimate how much space you need to store backups on the Recovery Appliance to meet your Compliance ...
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Thursday, September 29, 2022

ZFSSA File Retention and Snapshot Retention provide protection for RMAN incremental merge backups.

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File Retention Lock and Snapshot Retention Lock are great new features on ZFSSA that can help protect your backups from deletion and help yo...
Friday, July 29, 2022

OCI Database backups with retention lock

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 OCI Object Storage provides both lifecycle rules and retention lock.  How to take advantage of both these features isn't always as easy...
Thursday, July 28, 2022

ZFSSA replicating locked snaphots to OCI for offsite backup

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ZFSSA replication can be used to create locked offsite backups. In this post I will show you how to take advantage of the new "Locked S...