Dbconsole: anyone using for backup?

Is anyone using dbconsole for backups? I'm used to creating rman scripts and running those scripts using a cronjob or legato/veritas software. When dbconsole is up and running, it is generating a lot of archivelogs, so theres a space issue.

What you asked is a little confusing.
Yes, use dbconsole to generate rman scripts is a good idea if you are not familiar with the syntax.
dbconsole is part of Oracle Enterprise Manager, it shouldn't generate a lot of archive logs. Maybe you can elaborate the problem you are facing so we can help you to troubleshoot.
What's your Oracle version, OS etc..

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I recently moved and had to disconnect my WD My Pro Edition II 2TB external drive I had been using for backup. Its been several months and now when i try to reconnect the external dire (Use a firewire cable) it does not recognize the drive is there. I a

I recently moved and had to disconnect my WD My Pro Edition II 2TB external drive I had been using for backup.
Its been several months (many upgrades to the iMac software during this time), and now when I try to reconnect the external dire (Use a firewire cable) it does not recognize the drive is there. I also tried "reloading" software from the Western Digital site, but after following all the instructions, it looks like my iMac doesn't support this software (I can't even locate it after I follow all the instructions.
Thnaks, for anyones ideas on how I can get this working again.....

First of all, you do not really want to use their software; if you want a bootable clone, use either Carbon Copy Cloner or SuperDuper. If you simply want to drag and drop some files, you don't need software to do that. The important thing on any external drive is that you format/partition it correctly (Mac OS Extended (Journaled) and using GUID partition scheme).
Unfortunately, I don't know anything about WD drives or their software, so I don't have any idea what kind of backup you did. Having said that, it should still recognize the external even if it's outdated. Have you tried mounting it manually in Disk Utility? If you can get it to mount, you could (worst case scenario) just drag your stuff off onto your internal and then reformat the external.

What can I do? I've forgotten my password and dont remember the answers to my sercurity questions, and no longer have access to the email account i used for backup. How do I get my icloud password reset?

What can I do? I've forgotten my password and dont remember the answers to my sercurity questions, and no longer have access to the email account i used for backup. How do I get my icloud password reset? Please help. Thanks in advance.

Please see Kappy's User Tip here:
https://discussions.apple.com/docs/DOC-4551

After install of Lion, secondary internal hard drive used for backup and time machine is not showing on the desktop.

After an install of Lion, my secondary internal hard drive used for backup and time machine is not showing on the desktop. Cannot be located with Disk Utility either. Contains vital files! please help...

I have a TB internal drive, but this is what it shows for memory slots:
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Serial Number:    0x00000000
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Speed:    Empty
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Manufacturer:    Empty
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HT3275 This file 'Volumes/Data/iMac van Bruno Heutz.sparsebundle' which is used for backup copie is already in use. What do I have to do?.

Every 30 min I get this message from Time Machine.
This file 'Volumes/Data/iMac van Bruno Heutz.sparsebundle' which is used for backup copie is already in use.
What do I have to do?.
Kind regards,
Bruno

Restart the TC..
But yours might be more serious than that.
Read C12 in pondini.
http://pondini.org/TM/Troubleshooting.html
I would suggest you change all names to match what Pondini writes here.
C9
And use ethernet not wireless.

What thrid party tools are you using for backup compression?

I have a few SQL Server 2008 standard edition instances and I'm curious to what third party tools people are using for backup compression. I know upgrading to enterprise edition or SQL Server 2008R2 or above will give me that compression but I do not
have that option right now. I'm familiar with Idera, Red gate and Litespeed and I just want to know what else is out there.
Thank you in Advance.

There are many third party tools.
But Why third party tools?
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Can Time Capsule be used for Backup of Iphone

Can Airport Time Capsule be used for Backup of Iphone & ipad

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If you are using Time Machine to backup your Mac to the Time Capsule, then all of the backups of your iOS devices in iTunes will then be backed up to the Time Capsule.
See this Apple support document for more information on iOS backups.
http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1766

Application to use for backup

Hi,
I am using MBP with Snow Leopard, and I have this 500G external drive as my backup (Sometime use on windows to open backup files from mac).
My question is , is there a program / application to use for backup? I tried backing up, but the folder on my target drive (500gb ext), was replaced with the folder on my mbp.
Scenario:
on MBP - I have folder Documents
on 500ext drive - I have folder Documents
When I copy the entire Documents folder from MBP to 500G Ext Drive, the one in 500G was replaced with the one in MBP. I dont want that to happen because sometimes I have files on 500g documents that doesn't exists on MBP Docs. I just want to COPY folders on either way and will retain files even not exists. Which means, I need a file manager that copy files to files not folder to folder.
As much as possible, I want a free apps.
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Use the ditto command in the Terminal, which is in the /Applications/Utilities/ folder; for instructions on its use, enter 'man ditto' without the quote marks into the Terminal prompt.
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What to use for backup?

To back up my mac computer, do I need to purchase a product such as time capsule, or do i just use a blank CD, or what? I would like to back up my mac, but i don't know what to use.
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Basic Backup
Get an external Firewire drive at least equal in size to the internal hard drive and make (and maintain) a bootable clone/backup. You can make a bootable clone using the Restore option of Disk Utility. You can also make and maintain clones with good backup software. My personal recommendations are (order is not significant):
1. Retrospect Desktop (Commercial - not yet universal binary)
2. Synchronize! Pro X (Commercial)
3. Synk (Backup, Standard, or Pro)
4. Deja Vu (Shareware)
5. PsynchX 2.1.1 and RsyncX 2.1 (Freeware)
6. Carbon Copy Cloner (Freeware - 3.0 is a Universal Binary)
7. SuperDuper! (Commercial)
8. Intego Personal Backup (Commercial)
9. Data Backup (Commercial)
The following utilities can also be used for backup, but cannot create bootable clones:
1. Backup (requires a .Mac account with Apple both to get the software and to use it.)
2. Toast
3. Impression
4. arRSync
Apple's Backup is a full backup tool capable of also backing up across multiple media such as CD/DVD. However, it cannot create bootable backups. It is primarily an "archiving" utility as are the other two.
Impression and Toast are disk image based backups, only. Particularly useful if you need to backup to CD/DVD across multiple media.
Visit The XLab FAQs and read the FAQs on maintenance, optimization, virus protection, and backup and restore. Also read How to Back Up and Restore Your Files.
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Enclosures for FireWire and USB are readily available. You can find only FireWire enclosures, only USB enclosures, and enclosures that feature multiple ports. I would stress getting enclosures that use the Oxford chipsets (911, 921, 922, for example.) You can find enclosures at places such as;
Cool Drives
OWC
WiebeTech
Firewire Direct
California Drives
NewEgg
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Wireless 1TB Plus used for backup?

Could a Seagate Wireless Plus 1TB Storage/Buildin Wi-Fi Streaming unit be used for backup in Time Machine, or do I have to use a USB connection?

The first requirement would be that the drive is formatted in Mac OS Extended (Journaled). If not, the next question for Seagate support would be.....can it be formatted in Mac OS Extended (Journaled)?.
If yes.....in theory.....it would work, but backups will be mighty S L O W this way due to a "double hop" wireless situation.
In other words, your Mac would have to send the signal to the wireless router......hop one.....and then the wireless router would have to send the signal back out to the Seagate......hop two.
In addition to doubling the amount of time that it would take for backups to occur, the chances of an error are doubled as well.

90 GB of MacAir SSD used for "backups"

I just upgraded from Snow Leopard to Lion. I had a lot of iTunes videos that I just deleted but no space was freed up. Now my hard disk shows 90GB of space used by backups. I've deleted my iPhone/iPad backups, emptied recycle bin, rebooted. etc. I must be missing something.
Does anyone know what these backups are and how I get rid of them? Thanks.

Yup. The old forum had a box at the top of the page with User Contributed Tips, for just such stuff.
If you haven't found all the details about Local snapshots, see #30 in Time Machine - Frequently Asked Questions.

Anyone Use Different Backup Software with Time Capsule

I love the concept of Time Machine + Time Capsule, but there are too many problems and I have wasted too many hours trying to get it to work properly. So...
Has anyone had success using different backup software (maybe Apple Backup) with Time Capsule?
I would love to go back in time and simply:
1-Plug my computer into the drive (wireless is fine too)
2-Launch my backup software
3-Backup

Really not sure. I've always just done bootable backups...
You CAN create a bootable backup onto a sparse disk image on an Airdisk, but of course it wouldn't really be bootable until the backup was cloned back directly to a drive. So I guess you could back up that way, and if you needed it you could restore back to your main HDD, from the sparse image, and the computer would be restored and bootable. I think.
My original goal was to have both Time Machine backups and SuperDuper clones ll being done over the Time capsule/Airdisks, but now (if I decide to get an AEBS or TC) I will likely only do the Time Machine backups over the wifi, and still have an occasional clone made to a drive plugged in via usb.
To your last comment though...if your only going to do the User folder, it may make as much sense to just use Time Machine, since you can restore/migrate from a TM backup. Although it may be smart to do a user folder backup using BOTH Time Machine and SuperDuper, for redundancy.
Sigh, always so many options, and usually doesn't work the way you want it to...

10g Physical Standby to be used for Backup through RMAN

Dear All,
I have 10g Database Primary and Standby Server which is operating in Maximum Performance Mode. I want to use Standby Database for performing Weekly Full and Daily Incremental Backups through RMAN. Kindly inform me is it possible, if yes how should I configure it. I will also be using Compression and Encryption while performing backups.
Best Regards,
Asif

Yes, that is possible.
Because the standby databases are in mount mode, they can be accessed through the SYS account .
I use the following RMAN script for the same purpose. Please note that we have configure the flashback area, so we are not letting RMAN delete the archive files:
run {
sql 'alter system archive log current';
sql 'alter system archive log current';
allocate channel ch1 type 'sbt_tape' parms 'ENV=(TDPO_OPTFILE=/usr/tivoli/tsm/client/oracle/bin64/tdpo.opt)';
backup
incremental level 0
tag full_bk_db_webshop
format 'df_%d_t%t_s%s_p%p'
(database include current controlfile);
backup archivelog all;
This script is for a FULL backup ( level 0 ). You could also use the "backup full" command
You can easily change the level of the Backup for incremental purposes.
Starting RMAN - if configured correctly - is the same as with an open database
export ORACLE_SID=<STDBYSID>
rman target / rcvcat <rman/rman>@<catalogsid>
the user for, and the catalogsid are merely examples
Edited by: fjfranken on Mar 24, 2009 4:07 AM

Unable to install Mountain Lion because HD is "being used for backups"?

I have been unable to install mountain lion because it is saying that my hard drive is being used for time machine backups. That makes no sense, because I use an external hard drive to backup my computer. I'm not sure why this is happening.

Do you, for some reason, have an item named "Backups.backupdb" on your hard drive? If so, you need to get rid of that in order to install.

What to use for backups? Should I clone the drive?

I have a 100Gb hard drive and would like to know what software i should use to backup/clone. I'm still relatively new to Macs and the idea of a cloned drive isn't as feasible in the PC world. I ordered an external drive (250Gb) and will use part of it for my Mac (Can I use half for my Powerbook and half for my PC laptop?). The external drive will have firewire.
My main concern is backups with the ability to boot as an added feature. What plan should I use? I have no problem cloning the whole drive once or twice a month. Should I buy Carbon Copy, Super Duper or Deja vu? Is there something better out there? HELP!

The main fear I was referring to about the drive partitioning was the possibility of drive failure, which might lose data on both partitions. Whilst loss is a relatively unlikely event, the whole idea of backing up is to give you the re-assurance that your data is safe when that 'unlikely' event happens (which it probably will when you least expect or want it to). Over the years I have learned the hard way that backups should be treated in the most safest and most conservative manner - no shortcuts. That said, the event you described is very unlikely.
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