EMC Backup and Recovery for Oracle 11g OLTP Enabled by EMC ...

Chapter 6: Testing and Validation
Section A: Test results summary and resulting recommendations
Description of
the results
summary and
conclusions
Backups were run using a backup schedule consisting of level 0, or full backups
only. For the purposes of this solution, Friday COB was deemed to be the start of the
weekend.
Archived redo logs and the control file were also backed up as part of each backup
that occurred during this solution. Backing up the archived redo logs had a significant
impact on the overall change rate of the database. The change rate of the database
was 2 percent. However, because the archived log files were backed up on every
backup, the change rate observed during incremental backups was actually much
higher, closer to 10 percent.
For this use case, EMC carried out a number of tests on the Oracle 11g OLTP
backup and recovery infrastructure. At a high level:
• Orion validation
• Swingbench
• Validate Swingbench profile
• Backup from production
• SnapView clone copy from production
• Data Domain deduplication
• Restore
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