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4 Setting Up the Dell™ DR Series System as an NFS or CIFS Backup Target on Oracle Recovery Manager® |
April 2015
Executive summary
This paper provides guideline about how to set up the Dell DR Series System as a backup to disk target for
RMAN® over CIFS/Rapid CIFS and NFS/Rapid NFS.
For additional information, see the DR Series system documentation and other data management
application best practices whitepapers for your specific DR Series system at:
http://www.dell.com/powervaultmanuals
Note: The DR Series System/RMAN build version and screenshots used for this paper may vary slightly, depending on
the version of the DR Series System/ RMAN software version used.
About RMAN
RMAN (Recovery Manager) is a backup and recovery manager supplied for Oracle databases by the Oracle
Corporation. Oracle Corporation recommends RMAN as its preferred method for backup and recovery
and has written command-line and graphical (via Oracle Enterprise Manager) interfaces for the product.
The following illustration shows a typical implementation of the backup infrastructure with the Dell DR
Series system. The DR Seriees system offers optimized replication of data from one system to another over
the WAN for disaster recovery.
Dell DR Series System: RMAN: Baseline Scenarios