[PLUG] ZFS talk followup, Oracle backup

At last nights talk on ZFS / OpenStorage the question was raised about how to
backup Oracle databases ( or a database in general ) with ZFS.

With the NexentaStor implementation, there are plug-ins available for
assisting with Oracle. See [1]

- oracle backup: a plugin for nexenta allowing backup of remote oracle servers.
- remsnap: perl script calling Nexenta API, allowing remote devices to trigger
                   a ZFS snapshot. Useful for any remote client side to trigger a DB
                   checkpoint and then a ZFS snapshot.

Install oracle plugin:
nmc$ setup plugin install oracle-backup

Flush Oracle buffers and do backup
   setup db oracle begin-backup
   create snapshot
   setup db oracle end-backup

[1]
http://www.nexenta.com/corp/nexentastor-faq-table/331-how-to-make-consistent-snapshot-of-a-database

Lee

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