Re: OCR / VD external vs. normal redundancy using NFS.

  • From: Dan Norris <dannorris@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: David Robillard <david.robillard@xxxxxxxxx>

Hi David,

Sounds good *as long as* something/someone is monitoring the NFS filesystem
mount. If it somehow disappears or becomes unmounted, it is possible that
backups may fail silently which is worse than the default situation IMO.

Dan

On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 10:43 AM, David Robillard <david.robillard@xxxxxxxxx
> wrote:

> Hi Dan,
>
> On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 10:58 AM, Dan Norris <dannorris@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
> > Agreed, a manual backup is a solid practice after any config changes. To
> > take such a backup, see
> >
> http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/E11882_01/rac.112/e10717/ocrsyntax.htm
>
> I would you change the default OCR backup location to a shared file
> system like NFS or ACFS. It can be done with the "ocrconfig
> -backuploc" command.
>
> Anyone using ACFS for that?
>
> Thanks,
>
> David
>
> > That page also has information about using the -export which is
> enlightening
> > too if you want to see what's in there and the export can also be
> imported
> > with -import.
> >
> > Dan
>

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