‘Incredible’ Deduplication with Oracle RMAN and ‘Instantaneous’ Restores with Veeam
Sproule backs up SAIF’s data in daily incrementals and weekly fulls. SAIF’s data consists of 550 VMs as well as SQL and Oracle databases. “We back up our Oracle databases directly to ExaGrid. The deduplication we’re getting on the Oracle RMAN backups is incredible!” said Sproule. ExaGrid enables the fastest Oracle RMAN Backups with performance load balancing utilizing Oracle RMAN Channels. ExaGrid delivers a 10 to 50:1 deduplication ratio for long-term retention and stores the most recent backup in an RMAN native format for the fastest restores. Whether backing up VMs or databases, Sproule has been impressed with the reliable backups and quick restores from the ExaGrid system. “Our data has exploded since we first installed our ExaGrid systems a few years ago, but thanks to ExaGrid our backup window has been able to stay the same. Plus, using Veeam to restore data from ExaGrid’s
landing zone is instantaneous and very simple,” he said.
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).