Re: PA-RISC system shelf life

2010-07-28 Thread Thomas Denier
-Wanda Prather wrote: - >The TDP for Oracle is just a connector/driver; it's actually Oracle >RMAN that is selecting the data out of the data base on a backup, and >writing it back to the DB on restore. So if you have issues >restoring from PA-RISC to Itanium, that is actually a question

Re: PA-RISC system shelf life

2010-07-28 Thread Thomas Denier
-Andy Huebner wrote: - >We make the DBA's dump the data to a format readable by other >versions and other software, then archive it to TSM. Up until now, requirements for archiving of Oracle database contents have been met by writing Oracle exports to disk and having the TSM backup/archiv

Re: PA-RISC system shelf life

2010-07-28 Thread Ochs, Duane
Huebner,Andy,FORT WORTH,IT Sent: Tuesday, July 27, 2010 3:59 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: PA-RISC system shelf life We make the DBA's dump the data to a format readable by other versions and other software, then archive it to TSM. Also read about Tin Whiskers. http://en.wikipedia.org

Re: PA-RISC system shelf life

2010-07-27 Thread Markus Engelhard
Hi Thomas, allmost been there (only have 10 years retention for this data). Initially, we retired an oracle database on NT4 (donĀ“t remenber the oracle version, current in 1999/2000) to our old TSM 3.7 on a mainframe. In the meantime we migrated TSM to AIX and the to Sun, with two changes in tape t

Re: PA-RISC system shelf life

2010-07-27 Thread Kelly Lipp
2010 7:21 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] PA-RISC system shelf life The TDP for Oracle is just a connector/driver; it's actually Oracle RMAN that is selecting the data out of the data base on a backup, and writing it back to the DB on restore. So if you have issues restori

Re: PA-RISC system shelf life

2010-07-27 Thread Prather, Wanda
uesday, July 27, 2010 4:41 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] PA-RISC system shelf life -Duane Ochs wrote: - >Thomas, >Did you perform a TDP backup of the Oracle database to TSM? >Or use a native oracle dump and backup the dump ? The backups were done with the software

Re: PA-RISC system shelf life

2010-07-27 Thread Steven Harris
Hi Thomas I have read somewhere about a US Air Force unit that has a stack of brand-new old machines, with brand new installation media and complete instructions on how to set them up all shrink wrapped and ready for the call to restore something old, which someone set up when they realized the

Re: PA-RISC system shelf life

2010-07-27 Thread Huebner,Andy,FORT WORTH,IT
cheap. The last one that failed took over a month to locate a replacement. Andy Huebner -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ads...@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf Of Thomas Denier Sent: Tuesday, July 27, 2010 2:41 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: [ADSM-L] PA-RISC s

Re: PA-RISC system shelf life

2010-07-27 Thread Thomas Denier
-Duane Ochs wrote: - >Thomas, >Did you perform a TDP backup of the Oracle database to TSM? >Or use a native oracle dump and backup the dump ? The backups were done with the software Tivoli used to market as TDP for Oracle, and now markets as part of TSM for Databases.

Re: PA-RISC system shelf life

2010-07-27 Thread Ochs, Duane
@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: PA-RISC system shelf life I have a strange data retention question somewhat related to TSM. We have an Oracle application running under HP-UX and using TSM for Databases (or whatever the API-based add on is called this week) to provide backup coverage. Over its history the

PA-RISC system shelf life

2010-07-27 Thread Thomas Denier
I have a strange data retention question somewhat related to TSM. We have an Oracle application running under HP-UX and using TSM for Databases (or whatever the API-based add on is called this week) to provide backup coverage. Over its history the application has migrated from PA-RISC systems to I