RE: Compressing Rman Disk Backups

  • From: "Bobak, Mark" <Mark.Bobak@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Mon, 29 Mar 2004 11:07:51 -0500

Cool idea, Philip!

(Let us all know when you've got it wrapped up and debugged! ;-))

-----Original Message-----
From: Douglass, Philip 
Sent: Monday, March 29, 2004 11:05 AM
To: oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: Compressing Rman Disk Backups


I suppose you could manage it with named pipes, and a gzip process sucking
on them. Might be kind of tricky with how rman does multiple backupsets.

I've always thought it would be incredibly useful to have a perl module that
functioned as an MML for Rman. Just something that would open up the API so
we could write perl backends that could:
    compress backupsets
    push backups over a network
    save backupsets to the least full backup partition.
    interface with third-party backup software that doesn't support Oracle
    etc...

I don't know if that is feasible or not, but I'd love to see something like
this.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Mercadante, Thomas F" <thomas.mercadante@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, March 29, 2004 10:19 AM
Subject: Compressing Rman Disk Backups


All,

I am attempting to perform Rman disk backups on a data warehouse.  While the
disk backup runs fine, the size of the output files are, of course, huge.
What I would like to do is to pipe the output of the Rman backup while it is
running to something like Gzip so that the file gets created compressed.  My
other option is to break the backup into a tablespace by tablespace
multi-Rman run process and gzip or compress the files in between each step.

Anybody found a way to do this?

thanks

PS - Oracle 9.2.0.3 on Sun Unix.

Tom Mercadante
Oracle Certified Professional

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