Using DAOS in production?

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Subject: Using DAOS in production?

Feedback Type: Question

Product Area: DAOS

Technical Area: Functionality

Platform: Windows 2003 server

Release: 8.5.1

Reproducible: Not applicable

Are you using DAOS in production? At first I was excited at the possibility of implementing this new feature system-wide, however, now I am have reservations.

Specifically, the process needed to do point-in-time restores of DAOS-enabled databases. Say I pull an nsf from a 6 month old restore and the associated transaction logs. Then, I have to run a daos command to determine what NLO files are missing from the current activy NLO directory. At that point, if I had Tivoli storage manager, it would take a simple command to have Tivoli read the file of missing NLO's and restore them. However, since I do not have Tivoli, I would need to hunt and peck thru my backups and do individual restores of those NLO files. This is not spelled out in the Admin Guide and the documenation on doing backups for DAOS is overly simplified.

What I am thinking of doing is only implementing DAOS on nsf's that are not backed up.

I think the Admin Guide's lack of detail on the DAOS restore process guidelines, and its casual treatment of backup guidelines for DAOS should be reviewed.

Feedback number WEBB7XXJXS created by ~Bella Chuveluburjip on 11/19/2009

Status: Open
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