Oracle Servers, Storage, and Solaris Podcasts

Listen to a podcast on backup and storage optimization when backing up an Oracle Exadata Database Machine. Host Kelly Beckman, Storage Product Marketing Analyst for Backup and Recovery, is joined for the discussion by Todd Adler, Senior Manager for Software Development, and Jeff Wright, Principal Software Engineer. As Beckman explains, Oracle's Maximum Availability Architecture best practice and recommended approach for backing up an Exadata Database Machine is to back it up to Exadata storage, using an RMAN Fast Recovery Area on Exadata Storage Servers. She points out that many customers also choose to take their backups one step further by backing up to secondary disk, and oftentimes all the way to tape. The focus of this podcast is to discuss these 'Tier 2' type backup architectures: using Oracle StorageTek Tape, or Sun ZFS Storage Appliances for Exadata backups.