Mike Have you seen the latest declaration from ORACLE. If not it is at least worth a look. You will have to look at the details and the commercials yourselves - but at a very high level functionally it looks very attractive http://www.oracle.com/us/corporate/press/2020722 Thanks and Regards - Raj Pande UBS AG Platform Services - Operations Global Service Delivery (GSDM) 480 Washington Blvd. Jersey City, NJ 07310 TEL# - External - +1 201 318 7597 Internal - 19 436 7597 -----Original Message----- From: oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of mike boligan Sent: Monday, October 28, 2013 2:16 PM To: oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: Exadata backups Syed, I have not seen this, it is informative. I see a mention of NDMP, is this what the ZFS appliance uses to backup directly from the cell server , and avoid the compute node? Thanks, Mike On Monday, October 28, 2013 1:43 PM, mike boligan <mboligan@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: We are implementing Exadata and are in the process of evaluating backup appliances. We are looking at the Oracle ZFS solution and the EMC Datadomain solution. Anyone go through a similar evaluation recently? Our storage folks seem to be leaning towards EMC because it has more administrative features (for things like replicating to a DR site). I remember hearing our ACS person mention that the ZFS appliance will backup Exadata databases going only through the storage cell and not the compute node. I tried to find something to verify this but am unable to. If true, this would make this decision pretty easy, if you can confirm or deny this as well I would appreciate that. TIA, Mike -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l Please visit our website at http://financialservicesinc.ubs.com/wealth/E-maildisclaimer.html for important disclosures and information about our e-mail policies. For your protection, please do not transmit orders or instructions by e-mail or include account numbers, Social Security numbers, credit card numbers, passwords, or other personal information. -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l