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Thursday, May 14, 2009

The Future of Backups for DBAs

DBAs have used vendor solutions for backups for years.

In the Oracle world RMAN has been the primary tool used for Oracle backups.
In the MySQL world replication, InnoDB hot backup have been primary tools used for backups.

However as databases grow into the two terabyte range and larger, the old ways are just not efficient any longer. In the future you will see snapshots and split mirror backups become more prominent in large database enviroments.

Snapshots and split mirror backups offered by logical volume managers and some operating systems allow a backup to be taken in a few seconds. Higher availability requirements and time windows required to perform backups are becoming bigger issues as database servers continue to grow in size.

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