<br><br> In OCFSv1 this could only be done with the oracle patched binutils, but it should be safe to backup OCFSv2 files directly.<br><br> Any input from the developers?<br><br>Regards,<br>Luis<br><br><b><i>Shivaprasad Kambalimath <ShivaprK@herbalife.com></i></b> wrote:<blockquote class="replbq" style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"> <br><br>We use EMC's BCV for OCFS2 split mirror and it works just fine (10.2.0.3<br>and RH Linux 4). The only problem is we can't backup to tape directly<br>from ocfs2 (we are using legato and I haven't heard of any other third<br>party s/w doing this without rman). So, we copy files to ext3, zip them<br>and then take tape backup.<br><br>Thanks, <br>Shiva Kambalimath<br><br>-----Original Message-----<br>From: ocfs2-users-bounces@oss.oracle.com<br>[mailto:ocfs2-users-bounces@oss.oracle.com] On Behalf Of<br>ocfs2-users-request@oss.oracle.com<br>Sent: Monday, October
08, 2007 12:00 PM<br>To: ocfs2-users@oss.oracle.com<br>Subject: Ocfs2-users Digest, Vol 46, Issue 7<br><br>Send Ocfs2-users mailing list submissions to<br> ocfs2-users@oss.oracle.com<br><br>To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit<br> http://oss.oracle.com/mailman/listinfo/ocfs2-users<br>or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to<br> ocfs2-users-request@oss.oracle.com<br><br>You can reach the person managing the list at<br> ocfs2-users-owner@oss.oracle.com<br><br>When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific<br>than "Re: Contents of Ocfs2-users digest..."<br><br><br>Today's Topics:<br><br> 1. OCF2 and LVM (Riccardo Paganini)<br> 2. Re: OCF2 and LVM (Jordi Prats)<br> 3. Re: OCF2 and LVM (Alexei_Roudnev)<br><br><br>----------------------------------------------------------------------<br><br>Message: 1<br>Date: Mon, 08 Oct 2007 12:35:54 +0200<br>From: "Riccardo Paganini" <riccardo.paganini@solveit.it><br>Subject:
[Ocfs2-users] OCF2 and LVM<br>To: ocfs2-users@oss.oracle.com<br>Message-ID: <web-571788@solveit.it><br>Content-Type: text/plain;charset="iso-8859-1";format="flowed"<br><br>Does anybody knows if is there a certified procedure in to <br>backup a RAC DB 10.2.0.3 based on OCFS2 ,<br>via split mirror or snaphots technology ?<br><br><br>Using Linux LVM and OCFS2, does anybody knows if is <br>possible to dinamically extend an OCFS filesystem,<br>once the underlying LVM Volume has been extended ?<br><br>Thanks in advance<br>Riccardo Paganini<br><br><br><br>------------------------------<br><br>Message: 2<br>Date: Mon, 08 Oct 2007 20:20:08 +0200<br>From: Jordi Prats <jprats@cesca.es><br>Subject: Re: [Ocfs2-users] OCF2 and LVM<br>To: Riccardo Paganini <riccardo.paganini@solveit.it><br>Cc: ocfs2-users@oss.oracle.com<br>Message-ID: <470A74D8.9090702@cesca.es><br>Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed<br><br>Hi,<br>I'm not an expert on oracle, but I don't
think using a snapshot is a <br>recommended backup solution. You should use data pump or exp utilities <br>to backup your database.<br><br>To extend your fs, tune2fs.ocfs2 requires you to umount it, according to<br><br>it's man page:<br><br>==<br>tunefs.ocfs2 is used to adjust OCFS2 file system parameters on disk. <br>In order to prevent data loss, tunefs.ocfs2 will not perform any <br>action on the specified device if it is mounted on any node in the <br>cluster. This tool requires the O2CB cluster to be online.<br>==<br><br>The concrete command should be: tune2fs.ocfs2 -S /dev/LVM_volume<br><br>I don't know if there's any way to extend it without umounting it.<br><br>If you want to extend your fs without umounting it you should use ASM <br>instead of OCFS2.<br><br>regards,<br>Jordi<br><br>Riccardo Paganini wrote:<br>> Does anybody knows if is there a certified procedure in to backup a<br>RAC <br>> DB 10.2.0.3 based on OCFS2 ,<br>> via split mirror or
snaphots technology ?<br>> <br>> <br>> Using Linux LVM and OCFS2, does anybody knows if is possible to <br>> dinamically extend an OCFS filesystem,<br>> once the underlying LVM Volume has been extended ?<br>> <br>> Thanks in advance<br>> Riccardo Paganini<br>> <br>> _______________________________________________<br>> Ocfs2-users mailing list<br>> Ocfs2-users@oss.oracle.com<br>> http://oss.oracle.com/mailman/listinfo/ocfs2-users<br>> <br>> <br><br><br><br>------------------------------<br><br>Message: 3<br>Date: Mon, 8 Oct 2007 11:49:29 -0700<br>From: "Alexei_Roudnev" <Alexei_Roudnev@exigengroup.com><br>Subject: Re: [Ocfs2-users] OCF2 and LVM<br>To: "Jordi Prats" <jprats@cesca.es>, "Riccardo Paganini"<br> <riccardo.paganini@solveit.it><br>Cc: ocfs2-users@oss.oracle.com<br>Message-ID: <069101c809db$f5540070$7031a8c0@exigengroup.com><br>Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1";<br>
reply-type=response<br><br>I dont knoiw any lvm technology which can make a snapshort in clustered <br>environment, so better forget this idea.<br><br>Recommended method to do oracle backups is rman. Any violation of this <br>brings you into the swamp of possible oracle bugs.<br><br><br>----- Original Message ----- <br>From: "Jordi Prats" <jprats@cesca.es><br>To: "Riccardo Paganini" <riccardo.paganini@solveit.it><br>Cc: <ocfs2-users@oss.oracle.com><br>Sent: Monday, October 08, 2007 11:20 AM<br>Subject: Re: [Ocfs2-users] OCF2 and LVM<br><br><br>> Hi,<br>> I'm not an expert on oracle, but I don't think using a snapshot is a <br>> recommended backup solution. You should use data pump or exp utilities<br>to <br>> backup your database.<br>><br>> To extend your fs, tune2fs.ocfs2 requires you to umount it, according<br>to <br>> it's man page:<br>><br>> ==<br>> tunefs.ocfs2 is used to adjust OCFS2 file system parameters on disk.<br>In <br>> order
to prevent data loss, tunefs.ocfs2 will not perform any<br>action <br>> on the specified device if it is mounted on any node in the cluster.<br>This <br>> tool requires the O2CB cluster to be online.<br>> ==<br>><br>> The concrete command should be: tune2fs.ocfs2 -S /dev/LVM_volume<br>><br>> I don't know if there's any way to extend it without umounting it.<br>><br>> If you want to extend your fs without umounting it you should use ASM <br>> instead of OCFS2.<br>><br>> regards,<br>> Jordi<br>><br>> Riccardo Paganini wrote:<br>>> Does anybody knows if is there a certified procedure in to backup a<br>RAC <br>>> DB 10.2.0.3 based on OCFS2 ,<br>>> via split mirror or snaphots technology ?<br>>><br>>><br>>> Using Linux LVM and OCFS2, does anybody knows if is possible to <br>>> dinamically extend an OCFS filesystem,<br>>> once the underlying LVM Volume has been extended
?<br>>><br>>> Thanks in advance<br>>> Riccardo Paganini<br>>><br>>> _______________________________________________<br>>> Ocfs2-users mailing list<br>>> Ocfs2-users@oss.oracle.com<br>>> http://oss.oracle.com/mailman/listinfo/ocfs2-users<br>>><br>>><br>><br>> _______________________________________________<br>> Ocfs2-users mailing list<br>> Ocfs2-users@oss.oracle.com<br>> http://oss.oracle.com/mailman/listinfo/ocfs2-users<br>> <br><br><br><br><br>------------------------------<br><br>_______________________________________________<br>Ocfs2-users mailing list<br>Ocfs2-users@oss.oracle.com<br>http://oss.oracle.com/mailman/listinfo/ocfs2-users<br><br>End of Ocfs2-users Digest, Vol 46, Issue 7<br>******************************************<br><br>_______________________________________________<br>Ocfs2-users mailing
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