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ZDLRA, Real-time redo compression
ZDLRA: Changes in the Protection Policy Compression Algorithms (Doc ID 2654539.1)First I wanted to go through a little background on how compression works for archive logs.As you probably know,...
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ZDLRA and using stored scripts
One new item I learned with RMAN is the ability to utilize shared scripts. Using shared scripts can be very useful as you standardize your environment.This is where it fits into the ZDLRA. The ZDLRA...
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Sharing an RMAN Catalog with multiple users on ZDLRA
One of the topics that comes when implementing ZDLRA is the new RMAN feature that allows multiple users to share an RMAN catalog, but still be isolated.This is NOT a ZDLRA specific feature, but I find...
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ZDLRA and TDE wallet location
TDE and SEPS securityI am seeing TDE used more and more at customers as security concerns increase.This blog post will go through configuring TDE and SEPS security (which ZDLRA uses) together.If OID is...
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ZDLRA and TDE wallet location - Part 2
TDE and SEPS security - how do I get there?If you read my last blog post on TDE and SEPS security you might be asking yourself, how do I get there ?Many customers use the default location for the TDE...
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ZDLRA, archivelog log backups and compression
In this post I will go through what happens with Archive log Backupsets sent to the ZDLRA through log sweeps.When you implement ZDLRA you have 2 choices in backing up archive logs.1) Use real-time...
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ZDLRA, Real-time redo and compression
In this post I will go through what happens to archive logs sent to the ZDLRA through real-time redo.The most common way to send archivelog backups to a ZDLRA is through real-time redo.In this method...
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ZDLRA - How to do a storage checkup
One of the items that comes up with the ZDLRA is a storage checkup. The DBAs want to know more detail about the storage utilization of each database.Once you understand the above concepts you realize...
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ZDLRA - DISK_RESERVED_SPACE checkup
I wanted to go through some very basic items to think about on disk reserved space for databases backed up to a ZDLRA.There are couple of posts that have been written on this by both myself and...
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ZFS Appliance - Your on-premise cloud store
This is the first in a series of posts about using ZFS as a cloud store for your S3 bucket, or your OCI (Oracle Cloud Infrastructure) bucket in your datacenter.I am going to walk through in the next...
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Cloud restores to a RAC cluster with RMAN.
This post is about an RMAN command you probably never thought much about,"Autolocate". I know I never did until I started testing restores from a cloud store.Now let's see what it is, what it...
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Advanced Compression and TDE
This blog post details what happens when you utilize ACO to mitigate the effects of TDE.I started researching this topic as I thought about what happens when ACO is implemented on a table.The first...
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Managing authentication for a ZFS Object Store
As promised, I am continuing my blog series on how to work with ZFS as a cloud store.My first blog post went through the steps of how to configure ZFS as an object store.This post will go through how...
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Managing an Object Store on ZFS
This blog post will cover how to access the object store on ZFS to create buckets and upload files. For S3, I am using Cloudberry, which I downloaded here. For OCI, I am using the OCI cli tool.S3...
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ZFS as a swift object store
This blog post goes through a feature of the ZFS Appliance that has been around for at least 3 years now. The Openstack Swift Object store.When looking at the S3 API, and the OCI API, I forgot all...
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ZDLRA - Using Protection Policies to manage databases that have migrated or...
One the questions that keeps coming up with ZDLRA is how to manage the backups for a database that has eitherBeen migrated to another ZDRABeen retired, but the backup needs to be kept for a period of...
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Oracle Cloud object Store access with rlone.
If you are using the Oracle Object Store as part of the Oracle Public Cloud, "rclone" is an open source tool you can use to make things easier.One of the things I really like about RCLONE is that it...
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Oracle Database 19c now supports DBMS_CLOUD.
If you have been wondering why I've spent so much time blogging about how to configure ZFS as an object store, today is the day you get the answer.Today MOS note 2748362.1 - How To Setup And Use...
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ZFS Object Store - Why are there 3 APIs?
In talking to others that are new to object stores, there is always a complicated conversation on why there are different API interfaces. I will try to go through the history of object stores and talk...
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ZDLRA leverages the ZFS object store in the newest release
Yes, Using ZFSSA as an on-prem object store with ZDLRA is here, and How to configure Zero Data Loss Recovery Appliance to use ZFS OCI Object Storage as a cloud repository (Doc ID 2761114.1) shows you...
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