I recently wrote a blog to show how to configure Veeam RMAN plug-in to take database backups. As all DBA knows, configuring a backup, will not go without testing a restore. In this blog I will show how I tested my previous Veeam configuration and backups performed with this Veeam RMAN plug-in on the same ODA. In order to test…
I recently had to install and configure the Veeam RMAN plug-in on an ODA, and would like to provide the steps in this article, as it might be helpful for many other people. Create Veeam linux OS user We will create an OS linux user on the ODA that will be used to authenticate on the Veeam Backup server. This…
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 / DIFF and log backups. No issues during a long time but one day a call of my customer who…
