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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I think it can do it now. Could not do it on the
older versions.</FONT></DIV>
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style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt arial; font-color: black"><B>From:</B>
<A title=lfreitas34@yahoo.com href="mailto:lfreitas34@yahoo.com">Luis
Freitas</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=ocfs2-users@oss.oracle.com
href="mailto:ocfs2-users@oss.oracle.com">ocfs2-users@oss.oracle.com</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Tuesday, October 09, 2007 6:25
AM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: [Ocfs2-users] OCF2 and
LVM</DIV>
<DIV><BR></DIV><BR> If I am not mistaken, Veritas Storage
Foundation can do. It can also do online resize. But I am not a Veritas
expert, feel free to correct me.<BR><BR>From a whitepaper:<BR><BR>FlashSnap™,
a feature of Veritas Storage<BR>Foundation Cluster File System, can create
point-in-time<BR>copies of production information (either at the volume
or<BR>file system level)<BR><BR> I dont know if LVM2 can do
a snapshot in a clustered environment, but since OCFS2 is journaled, you can
probably remount a snapshot without data loss. One could put the database in
backup mode and take a
snapshot.<BR><BR>Regards,<BR>Luis<BR><BR><B><I>Alexei_Roudnev
<Alexei_Roudnev@exigengroup.com></I></B> wrote:
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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 to <BR>> backup your
database.<BR>><BR>> To extend your fs, tune2fs.ocfs2 requires you to
umount it, according to <BR>> it's man page:<BR>><BR>> ==<BR>>
tunefs.ocfs2 is used to adjust OCFS2 file system parameters on disk. In
<BR>> order to prevent data loss, tunefs.ocfs2 will not perform any
action <BR>> on the specified device if it is mounted on any node in the
cluster. 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 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>>>
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