Backup and Recovery
Datalock has great expertise with backup and restore methodologies. We specialise in implementing multi-redundant backup strategies.
Datalock is RMAN expert and advocates RMAN usage. Datalock has designed, deployed and tested complete RMAN solutions on all Oracle versions and platforms.
A recently deployed RMAN solution required the design, configuration and scripting for 35+ instances comprising both standard and enterprise 8i, 9i, 10g RDBMS versions on UNIX and Windows platforms. Documentation detailing 15 recovery scenarios passed rigorous GMP validation process.
Advantages of RMAN include:
- Faster Backups.
- Easier restore and recovery.
- Faster restore and recovery
- Additional restore and recovery options.
- Real time validation of backups.
- Smaller Backups.
- Database Duplication.
Datalock RMAN Solution offers:
- Standardised backup scripts for all RDBMS versions.
- Standardised restore and recovery scripts for all RDBMS versions.
- Standardised master and wrap around scripting for Windows and UNIX.
- Inclusion of all required and configuration files and structural information.
- Comprehensive Documentation.
- Comprehensive restore and recovery testing.
- Emailed output indicating success or failure for each backup.
- Cumulative incremental and cumulative differential backups.
Datalock provides additional backup and restore services:
- Hot OS backups
- Cold OS backups
- Recovery documentation for hot / cold OS backups
- ASCII Export scripting.
- ASCII Data Pump scripting.
- Import recovery documentation.
- 3rd party integration – tape management systems (TSM, Legato, ADSM)
- Standby Databases
- Data Guard