Monday, April 23, 2012

DR Site Implementation

Oracle E-Business Suite Release 12 High Availability Documentation Roadmap [ID 1072636.1]

Business Continuity for Oracle E-Business Release 12 Using Oracle 11g Physical Standby Database [ID 1070033.1]

ORACLE RESTART - Physical Standby Database Is Started In Mode "Open, Readonly" After Server Reboot [ID 1436313.1]

Data Guard Real-Time Apply FAQ [ID 828274.1]

Creating a Physical Standby Database on Oracle 11.2.0.x [ID 1475344.1]

Redo Transport Compression in a Data Guard Environment [ID 729551.1]

How to Add Second Standby in Existing Dataguard Configuration With Broker Using DGMGRL (Doc ID 842822.1)

Wednesday, April 18, 2012

Tape Backup & Restore Commands

Display the content of the tape.
tar tvf /dev/st0

To backup data to tape with compression
tar cvzf /dev/st0 /u01/ebiz

To restore entire data from the tape
tar -xvf /dev/st0 -C /u01/amila

To restore specific file from the tape
tar -xvf /dev/st0 u01/ebiz/db/tech_st/11.1.0/VIS_oracle.env -C /u01/amila


More good references:

http://www.ravisaive.in/2011/09/linux-tape-backup-with-tar-mt.html
http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/linux-tape-backup-with-mt-and-tar-command-howto/