Monday, July 24, 2023

RMAN - Create weekly archival backup from weekly full backups

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 This blog post demonstrates a process to create KEEP archival backups dynamically by using backups pieces within a  weekly full/daily incre...
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Monday, June 5, 2023

Autotuned_reserved_space is a new feature on the ZDLRA that you should be using

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 Autotuned_reserved_space is a new policy setting that got released with 21.1 and you should be using it. When I talk to customers about how...
Thursday, May 11, 2023

ZDLRA Validation is your best protection against Ransomware

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 Validation of Oracle backups on ZDLRA is often one the most overlooked features of the product. With the rise of ransomware, the question ...
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Wednesday, May 10, 2023

ZDLRA real-time redo demonstrated

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 One of the key features of the ZDLRA is the ability to capture changes from the database "real-time" just like a standby database...
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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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