[Ocfs2-users] RMAN backupset in OCFS2 and NetBackup

[Sunil Mushran]

Yes, unlike ocfs (rel 1), ocfs2 is a general purpose fs. The
website is incorrect. Ping your Veritas sales/support rep.

Wu, Hai wrote:
> 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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