[Ocfs2-users] RMAN backupset in OCFS2 and NetBackup

[Wu, Hai]

Thanks Sunil. Unfortunately Veritas said it is not supported.
http://seer.entsupport.symantec.com/docs/293087.htm. 

I thought OCFS2 is designed to be a general file system, different from
OCFS, which can only do direct_io. If so, I don't see any issue for
Netbackup to backup files from OCFS2 LUN, as long as it is not a
database file. Even ORACLE_HOME can be installed in OCFS2 LUN. If so,
and Netbackup does not support backing up from there, which would be bad
for Netbackup shops.

Thanks,
Hai

-----Original Message-----
From: Sunil Mushran [mailto:Sunil.Mushran at oracle.com] 
Sent: Monday, February 04, 2008 12:10 PM
To: Wu, Hai
Cc: ocfs2-users at oss.oracle.com
Subject: Re: [Ocfs2-users] RMAN backupset in OCFS2 and NetBackup

fyi... while the ocfs2 fs has reused ext3's directory handling code, and

uses
jbd for journalling, it has not, in any way, evolved from ext3. It will 
be better
if you ping the vendor (veritas for netbackup) to ensure that netbackup
is
configured correctly.

Wu, Hai wrote:
> Is there anyone who's putting RMAN backupset in OCFS2 LUN and then
using
> Netbackup client to backup RMAN backupset files from OCFS2 LUNs to
> Netbackup server? Is it Ok to do this? I am not sure if additional
> Netbackup configuration would be needed in this case. Since OCFS2 is
> evolved from EXT3, I assume there's no need to do additional Netbackup
> configuration for this disk to disk backup, but I am not sure.
>
> Please help,
> Thanks,
> Hai
>
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