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LucSkywalker195
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11 years ago
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Backup best practice for an Oracle Exalogic

I'm running Netbackup 7.6.0.3 Enterprise on RHEL 6. My organization has an Oracle Exalogic with many virtual servers running on it. Does Symantec have a best practice for how to back these appliances up? Is it something that Netbackup can have credentials created on a compute node and back them up using the Exalogic's native snapshot and NDMP capabilities using a NDMP policy in Netbackup? If not, is my only option of backing up these VM's to do it from within the VM like a traditional physical server backup?

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  • LucSkywalker195's avatar
    LucSkywalker195
    11 years ago

    What we decided to do was to deploy a new VM template with an extra restore volume. We restored the contents of the last full backup to the restore volume and then brought the VM down to single user mode, manually mounted the volumes up and rsync'd the data over to the primary volumes.

  • Michael_G_Ander's avatar
    Michael_G_Ander
    Level 6
    11 years ago

    Don't know Oracle Exalogic, but have backed up VM snapshots with Netbackup NDMP before.

    By doing this you can restore either the volume the snapshot was taken of or maybe a full VM, but not single files. Check that Exalogic NDMP is supported by Netbackup

    If the Exalogic uses automatic migration like vmware it can be challenge to find the correct volume when restoring as the VM might have moved since the backup

  • LucSkywalker195's avatar
    LucSkywalker195
    Level 4
    11 years ago

    Their documentation indicates that they have their own native backup product and processes to use snapshots and NDMP to move backups to disk or tape directly from the appliance, but not the OS of the VM's it hosts. It reccomends backing up the hosted VM's via tar or dump. So far the best method I can find is it backup the OS's and data from within the VM's. I'm working on getting added to their support agreement with Oracle so I can open up a case with them and verify this. I'll let you know. Thanks!
     

  • LucSkywalker195's avatar
    LucSkywalker195
    Level 4
    11 years ago

    What we decided to do was to deploy a new VM template with an extra restore volume. We restored the contents of the last full backup to the restore volume and then brought the VM down to single user mode, manually mounted the volumes up and rsync'd the data over to the primary volumes.