The TSM product Tivoli Data Protection for Oracle or the earlier ADSM
connect agent for Oracle work the same way. Both of them allow Oracle's
RMAN or EBU to use the TSM Server as the repository for the backups. In
affect, the TSM Server appears to Oracle as a storage/tape device. It
sends data to the device and recalls it from the device.
All the workings for how database tables are handled is done by Oracle. The
TSM product is just the interface between Oracle and the TSM server.
Answers to your questions.
1. YES, done through Oracles RMAN or EBU
2. The connect agent does not access the Oracle tables directly. RMAN or
EBU send the data to the TSM server using the connect agent.
3. Whatever amount RMAN or EBU decides to send.
4. The connect agent does not require that the ADSM client code is
installed. Just the API package is required. Oracle must be configured to
use the connect agent as a storage device. The connect agent must be
configured to talk to the ADSM Server. Then you have
the following.
Oracle <-> RMAN or EBU <-> Connect Agent <-> ADSM Server.
Regards,
James Thompson
>From: "Etherington, Keith (K.)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Reply-To: "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Subject: Oracle Agent
>Date: Wed, 16 Aug 2000 06:42:15 -0400
>
>We are currently running ADSM Sever Code 3.1.2.40 on AIX 4.3.2 using an
>IBM
>3466 NSM
>Some of our Oracle Databases have now grown to 100Gb. We shutdown the
>database in a pre script run the backup
>then restart the databases with the post script. However the backups take
>about 7 hrs backing up the 100 GB.
>My questions are using the Oracle Connect agent :-
>1) Can the backups run allowing hot backups (database kept up whilst
>backup running)
>2) How does the connect agent backup only updated parts of the Oracle
>database
>3) Approx how much data will be backed up from a 100Gb database using
>the connect agent
>4) Is the connect agent installed and configured on the client using
>Oracle or ADSM client code
>
>Regards,
>Keith Etherington,
>Snr Software Analyst,
>Global Technical Services,
>Room 1/148, Eagle Way,
>Warley, Brentwood,
>Essex, CM13 3BW
>
>E-Mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Telephone +44 (0)1277-253038
>Fax +44 (0)1277-253603
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