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I recently had to replace Barman by pgBackRest as Backup & Recovery solution for one of my customer. The purpose of this blog is not to show how I made the setup (some dbi blogs already exists for that), but only to share a small issue I encountered during the creation of the Stanza : [email protected]:/ [cms2] pgbackrest –stanza=cms2_primary stanza-create ERROR: [058]: version ’11’ and path ‘(null)’ queried from cluster do not match version ’11’…
By one of our customer we use Avamar for the backup and restore solution. I was asked by this customer to find a solution to run Avamar backups for a group of databases on a specified instance. In fact, we currently try a database clone solution on some instances and clone’s databases must not be backed up, but the rest of the databases must be. After some discussions with my colleague I decided to use…
Introduction Sometimes you face interesting challenges with unusual environment. One of my customer needed a automated and flexible backup solution. Said like that nothing very complex you will say. But if I mention that some databases were 60TB big with more than 30 filegroups and around 600 database data files each and moreover synchronized in an AlwayOn availability group, it is not the same story and you can easily imagine that working with standard backup…
The Oracle Multitenant architecture came with Oracle 12c a few years ago. For people usually working with traditional Non-CDB database it might be confusing the first time to do Backup and Recovery with pluggable databases (PDBs) In this document we are trying to explain how to use RMAN backup and recovery in a multitenant environment for an oracle 19c database with 2 pluggable databases. Below the configuration we are using. SQL> show pdbs CON_ID CON_NAME…
Last month (April 24, 2018), the Service Pack 2 for SQL Server 2016 was released and distributed. This Service Pack has new DMVs, already available in SQL Server 2017 RTM. In this article, I will just write few words about 2 DMVs (sys.dm_db_log_stats & sys.dm_db_log_info) and a new column (modified_extent_page_count) in the DMV sys.dm_db_file_space_usage that I presented during our last event about SQL Server 2017. I think they are really helpful for DBA. It’s also…
In previous blogs (blog1 and blog2) we saw a configuration of PgBackRest where the tool is installed in the same server that also hosts the PostgreSQL cluster. This configuration is fine if we have a single database server. But in the case that we have many database servers, it is more suitable to have a dedicated server for backups. This will also separate the backups and WAL archive from databases server In this article we…
Many tools can be used to backup PostgreSQL databases. In this blog I will talk about PgBackRest which is a simple tool that can be used to backup and restore a PostgreSQL database. Full, differential, and incremental backups are supported. In this first blog I will present a basic configuration of pgbackprest. Our configuration is composed of only one cluster and pgbackrest is installed on the server hosting the database. The goal is to explain…
We already have some posts on how you can use EDB BART to backup and restore your PostgreSQL instances from one central server (EnterpriseDB Backup and Recovery Tool (BART), getting started with postgres plus advanced server (2) – setting up a backup and recovery server). The current version you can download from the EnterpriseDB website is 1.1 but version 2.0 is in beta and can be tested already. The main new feature is that BART…
When discussing with customers about PostgreSQL we often hear that they can do things in one database that they can not do in PostgreSQL. Most of the times this is not true and you actually can do it in PostgreSQL. Maybe not in exactly the same way but this is not surprising as PostgreSQL does implement features not in exactly the same way other vendors do. To start this series we’ll talk about restore points….
Dans ce blog, je vais vous expliquer comment exporter les backups RMAN sur un « share disk » appartenant à un Domaine. Assurer la sécurité des données est l’une des tâches principales de l’administrateur : La mise en œuvre d’une protection des fichiers sensibles de la base : Fichier de contrôle Fichiers de journalisation La mise en place d’une stratégie de sauvegarde/récupération : Adaptée aux contraintes de l’entreprise Testée et documentée. Afin de vous documenter sur les différentes techniques de sauvegarde…
