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Recovery Continuity of your Oracle Database
"Recovery Continuity" should be a critical part of your Oracle Database support plan.As multitenant Oracle Databases becomes the standard for database implementations, you need to ensure that you...
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Recovery Continuity with Multitenant
Recovery Continuity with Multitenant is something you need to understand as you migrate databases from one CDB to anotherAbove is from a presentation that I recently gave to my internal Oracle Team....
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ZFS Object Store now offers detailed access control policies
Object Retention Rules is one of the new features that was released in ZFSSA version 8.8.36. Before I talk about Object Retention Rules on buckets on ZFSSA, I am going to go how to leverage the new...
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File Retention Lock now available in ZFSSA OS8.8.45
File Retention Lock is introduced today in the much-awaited release of ZFSSA AK Software OS8.8.45 (aka 2013.1 Update 8.45) OS8.8.45 introduces File Retention to ZFSSA. File retention is controlled by...
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ZFSSA offers versatile data protection
The latest release of ZFSSA Software OS8.8.45 includes file retention lock joining object retention lock and snapshot retention lock. 3 types of retention lockLegal HoldYou might need to preserve...
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Migrate a large oracle database to OCI from disk backup
Migrating an Oracle database from on-premise to OCI is especially challenging when the database is quite large. In this blog post I will walk through the steps to migrate to OCI leveraging an on-disk...
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ZFSSA File Retention Authorizations
ZFS File Retention authorizations is important to understand if you plan on implementing retention lock on ZFS. This feature was added in release OS8.8.46. and there is a MOS note explaining how it...
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File Retention Lock on ZFSSA
File Retention Lock was recently released on ZFSSA and I wanted to take the time to explain how to set the retention time and view the retention of locked files. Below is an example of what happens....
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ZFSSA replicating locked snaphots to OCI for offsite backup
ZFSSA replication can be used to create locked offsite backups. In this post I will show you how to take advantage of the new "Locked Snapshot" feature of ZFSSA and the ZFS Image in OCI to create an...
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OCI Database backups with retention lock
OCI Object Storage provides both lifecycle rules and retention lock. How to take advantage of both these features isn't always as easy as it looks. In this post I will go through an example customer...
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ZFSSA File Retention and Snapshot Retention provide protection for RMAN...
File Retention Lock and Snapshot Retention Lock are great new features on ZFSSA that can help protect your backups from deletion and help you meet regulatory requirements. Whether it be an accidental...
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Estimated space for Compliance Window on RA
In this post I will go through how to estimate how much space you need to store backups on the Recovery Appliance to meet your Compliance Window.This is critical to understand, since compliance...
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ZDLRA - Quick Start Guide
This post is intended to be a Quick Start Guide for those who are new to ZDLRA (RA for short). I spend part of time working with customers who are new the RA and often the same topics/questions come...
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Oracle Database recovery using Incremental merge, snapshots, OMF and "switch...
I work with backup and recovery of the Oracle Database, and sometimes this means looking at the Incremental Merge backup strategy. I know this isn't the best backup/recovery strategy, and below are...
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Why DBCS (Oracle Base Database Service) in OCI can make a DBA's life much...
DBCS (now named Oracle Base Database service, but I will call it DBCS throughout this post) in OCI can help make a DBA's life easier. When I was testing the new Autonomous Recovery Service for Oracle...
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ZDLRA real-time redo demonstrated
One of the key features of the ZDLRA is the ability to capture changes from the database "real-time" just like a standby database does. In this blog post I am going to demonstrate what is happening...
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ZDLRA Validation is your best protection against Ransomware
Validation of Oracle backups on ZDLRA is often one the most overlooked features of the product. With the rise of ransomware, the question "how to I ensure that I have validated Oracle backups" is...
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Autotuned_reserved_space is a new feature on the ZDLRA that you should be using
Autotuned_reserved_space is a new policy setting that got released with 21.1 and you should be using it. When I talk to customers about how to manage databases on a ZDLRA, the biggest confusion comes...
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