Veritas introduces NetBackup Copilot for Oracle

  Veritas Technologies has introduced NetBackup Copilot for Oracle. Available with the latest release of Veritas NetBackup Appliance 2.7.1,  the Copilot for Oracle aims to improve the backup and recovery of Oracle databases. Oracle database administrators (DBAs) can maintain control over primary backup and recovery operations using native Oracle tools while secondary operations and policies are managed by NetBackup administrators. This allows Oracle DBAs to manage backup and recovery through tools like RMAN while NetBackup administrators oversee operations such as deduplication, replication and cataloging. In addition, the feature provides full visibility into and awareness of other administrator’s activities. [caption id=“attachment_2007695” align=“alignleft” width=“380”] Reuters[/caption] “As the size of databases continues to increase, IT organisations are challenged to keep up with the demands it places on staff, storage and network resources. NetBackup Copilot for Oracle offers a fresh, new approach to simplifying Oracle database backup and recovery,” said Scott Anderson, Senior Vice President, Appliance Solutions, for Veritas. NetBackup Copilot allows DBAs to independently manage backups on their own schedule, maintain visibility across all storage tiers, and recover from any available copy. Backup administrators can implement policies to manage the storage, retention and movement of database backup copies to disk, tape or cloud storage tiers. In addition, NetBackup Copilot reduces backup times with NetBackup Accelerator for Oracle, and increases database backup performance. In addition to the NetBackup Copilot feature, the new NetBackup Appliance 2.7.1 software doubles the storage capacity of the NetBackup 5330 Appliance series. This appliance series will support an additional storage expansion shelf along with higher capacity disk drives to increase usable capacity and the deduplication pool size to 458TB. The expanded capacity will enable customers to further reduce OpEx and CapEx.