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Oracle 11gR2 backups to tape with RMAN and Netbackup von Martin Wunderli

Short answer: Currently a no-go, e.g. on Linux. Symantec told my customer to expect a new version of their libobk in Q1/2010. Until then, backups have to be made to disk and then saved with bpbackup (the Symantec CLI util for netbackup) to tape. Luckily...
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Standardized operation across OSes and other borders von Martin Wunderli

Today I gave my talk on standardized operation (e.g. how to operate MySQL as we are used to with Oracle RDBMS) at the DOAG conference in Nuremberg, a talk largely based on the concepts of TVD-BasEnv .You can find it soon here . The talk was well received...
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Replace Firefox 3 by Firefox 2 in Ubuntu 8.04 Hardy Heron von Martin Wunderli

Hi, Firefox 3 in Ubuntu Heron gave me quite some trouble, especially with our SSL-VPN and Tab Mix Plus Add-On: Both do not work. So I decied to go back to Firefox 2. Here is how I did it: Completely remove Firefox sudo apt-get remove --purge firefox firefox...
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Oracle Critical Patch Update October 2007 on RAC von Martin Wunderli

Hi, Since all molecules of the CPU October 2007 are marked as 'online applicable' to RAC (nice wording, it means a rolling upgrade is possible, not that all instances stay online during the patch...), I decided to test it. Clusterware did not...
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Remote access with GUI von Martin Wunderli

For quite a while I have been an enthusiastic fan of VNC (better: tightvnc) when it comes to access a remote server including graphics. However, since the VNC variant used in my Laptop OS Ubuntu Dapper (and therefore the OS of the PCs of my wife, father...
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