http://www.geekydba.com Ribald tales of swashbuckling geeks! Fri, 11 May 2007 19:31:18 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en So I've been trying to clone our production database to this new NAS device. It's not as fast as a SAN of course but it's decent. My steps were to copy the last hot backup, recover to current, then open it up. I had two iterations of this and the ... http://www.geekydba.com/archives/9 Here's my set up. Per my last post, I've created a hot backup of my production database. After copying it to our newly acquired NAS device (which blew a drive already), I started the recovery process. This was started several days ago. The recovery puked about 20 times over the ... http://www.geekydba.com/archives/8 My latest project is to move our test instance off of our primary SAN and move it to a cheaper NAS device. This instance is used for testing and quality assurance. We purchased a RaidWeb NAS device last week. It has 2TB when formatted RAID5. I mounted it up in ... http://www.geekydba.com/archives/7 As part of our maintenance schedule, I perform a weekly hot backup of our site. This is also copied elsewhere for DR purposes. I also maintain a hot physical standby that is never more than 6 hours behind for quick recovery. I've found recently that our previous DBA's hot backup ... http://www.geekydba.com/archives/3 I was sitting around last night and decided that the web needed a good place for geeky DBAs to hang out and post their war stories. I've just finished up a neat little program to generate hot backup scripts for my Oracle system and wanted to share. That's going to ... http://www.geekydba.com/archives/1