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Elasticsearch – Snapshot Lifecycle Management (SLM)

In a previous blog, I spoke about snapshot, restore, and briefly about Snapshot Lifecycle Management. In this blog, I will go more in deep in SLM.

Elasticsearch – Snapshot and Restore

No need to explain what is a snapshot and restore, how much they are important to any platform, software, database, aso. In this blog, I will show you how to take snapshots of your Elasticsearch cluster and how to restore.

ODA and Dbvisit : Create a SNAPSHOT database?

As you might know, Oracle doesn't offer any disaster recovery solution for their Oracle Standard Edition databases. Oracle Data Guard ensures high availability, data protection and disaster recovery for Oracle Enterprise Edition database only. Dbvisit is a great disaster recovery(…)

Snapshot solutions with Oracle Standard Edition SE2

Would you like to quickly provide your engineering team with a real production environment database with updated data to develop new features? Does your operational team need a copy of the production database to test a new release or a(…)

Nutanix Era with oracle databases : Part 4 – Taking a snapshot and running Log Catch Up

Now that we have our ORATEST database provisioned (see Nutanix Era blog part 3), we will be looking how to run snapshot and Log Catch Up and how will this take effects on our oracle database. For more information(…)

Oracle ACFS: “du” vs. “df” and “acfsutil info”

By Franck Pachot . This is a demo about Oracle ACFS snapshots, and how to understand the used and free space, as displayed by “df”, when there are modifications in the base parent or the snapshot children. The important(…)

PDB Snapshot Carousel Oracle 18.3

A new feature with Oracle 18c is the PDB snapshot carousel. As indicated by its name a PDB snapshot is a copy of a PDB at a specific point in time. You have the possibility to create up to eight(…)

Using VSS snapshots with SQL Server – part I

  This is probably a series of blog posts about some thoughts concerning VSS snapshots with database servers. Let’s begin with this first story: Some time ago, I implemented a backup strategy at one of my customers based on FULL(…)

Oracle Database 12c: ACFS – un système de fichier pour vos bases

La version 12c d’Oracle Grid Infrastructure introduit de nombreuses nouveautés dans le support d’ACFS, le système de fichiers clusterisés d’Oracle. Nous abordons dans ce posting la capacité d’ACFS d’être le système de fichier de votre base de données ainsi que sa(…)

A test database in one click – with Oracle Data Guard 11g

Are you confronted with  Developper or Application Owner wich want to have very soon a test database available,  to test the new developped code or to validate some code change before to  implement it ? With Data Guard 11g you(…)