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Oracle Storage Snapshots with Azure Backup

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DBAKevlar
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Jan 20, 2021
One of the biggest challenges to IO demands on an Oracle on Azure VM is when customers continue to utilize streaming backup technology like RMAN or import/exports via DataPump in the cloud.  Although...
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Adama_Diabate
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Nov 27, 2023

Hi Kellyn

 

Thank you for sharing so much valuable information related to Oracle DB on Azure.

While designing a Disaster Recovery solution for an Oracle VM on Azure, it seems we have two proposals from Azure:

1/ One solution based upon "Azure Backup" snapshots in combination with archivelogs files hosted/pushed to a remote storage (Azure File Share, Blob Storage, etc...). Disk snapshot has daily or hourly frequency (each 1-hour, each 2-hours, etc...).

2/ Azure Site Recovery for replicating an Oracle VM on Azure as a whole entity (all disks belonging to the VM). Replication frequency is 5 minutes not changeable.

 

In my case I have an Oracle VM under Windows Server 2019, and Oracle DB is of Standard Edition. All the disks are managed disks.

Is this understanding correct ?

Can you, please, point me toward pre-script & post-script for Windows, to quiesce and unquiesce the database in 1st solution ? In 2nd solution, do I also need to push archivelogs files to a remote storage (Azure File, Blob, etc...) ?

 

Best regards,

Adama