ExaGrid Cuts Backup Window of Oracle Data in Half
Lusitania installed an ExaGrid system at its primary site and plans to install a second ExaGrid system for disaster recovery (DR). Rodelo backs up Lusitania’s critical data in daily incrementals as well as backing up all data on a weekly and monthly basis. In addition to backing up data to the ExaGrid system, Rodelo also stores copies of backups on cloud storage, using Amazon Web Services (AWS). ExaGrid supports data center replication to AWS. ExaGrid’s approach of using an ExaGrid VM in AWS to AWS storage preserves many ExaGrid features when replicating to AWS, such as a single user interface for the onsite ExaGrid and the data in AWS, replication encryption, and bandwidth set and throttle, as well as providing encryption of data at rest in AWS.
Since using ExaGrid, Rodelo has noticed a major reduction of the backup windows for data backed up using Oracle RMAN. “Before using ExaGrid, backing up our principal database took three to four days, and trying to restore a database took up to a week because some of the restores of the transaction logs became very problematic to implement. Now that we use ExaGrid, our backup window has been cut in half and we can restore our databases within one workday,” he said. “Our Veeam backups are also very fast. I am able to back up all of our VMs, over 200, in under two and half hours, and restoring data using ExaGrid and Veeam is also very quick.”
ExaGrid writes backups directly to a disk-cache Landing Zone, avoiding inline processing and ensuring the highest possible backup performance, which results in the shortest backup window. Adaptive Deduplication performs deduplication and replication in parallel with backups for a strong recovery point (RPO). As data is being deduplicated to the repository, it can also be replicated to a second ExaGrid site or the public cloud for disaster recovery (DR).