Ocfs users - May 2006 - OCFS and backups to tape

Hi,

we have installed ocfs2 on Rhat 4.  It is being used as a general 
clustered file system. There are no oracle binaries or datafiles on the 
ocfs volume. So no need for RMAN or oarcle agents etc etc.

The customer would like to backup the volume using arcserve. However CA 
are saying that they cannot backup from an ocfs volume. 

Has anyone out there got any words of wisdom about backing  up ocfs2 to 
tape. particulary anyone dealing with arcserv.

cheers
Steve

-- 
Stephen Donn
Principal System Engineer
Oracle New Zealand
+64 9 977 2126

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Well, is this OCFS or OCFS2? The two products are slightly different.
While OCFS does not allow files to be opened concurrently in buffered
and o_direct modes, OCFS2 does.

However, as ARCSERVE is CA's product, they get to decide what
their product supports.

Stephen Donn wrote:
> Hi,
>
> we have installed ocfs2 on Rhat 4.  It is being used as a general 
> clustered file system. There are no oracle binaries or datafiles on 
> the ocfs volume. So no need for RMAN or oarcle agents etc etc.
>
> The customer would like to backup the volume using arcserve. However 
> CA are saying that they cannot backup from an ocfs volume. 
>
> Has anyone out there got any words of wisdom about backing  up ocfs2 
> to tape. particulary anyone dealing with arcserv.
>
> cheers
> Steve
> -- 
> Stephen Donn
> Principal System Engineer
> Oracle New Zealand
> +64 9 977 2126
>   
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