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Using Oracle ZFS Storage Appliance as a Backup Target (Doc ID 2315703.1)

Last updated on JANUARY 03, 2024

Applies to:

Oracle ZFS Storage ZS5-2 - Version All Versions and later
Oracle ZFS Storage ZS5-4 - Version All Versions and later
Oracle ZFS Storage ZS7-2 High End TAA Compliant - Version All Versions and later
Oracle ZFS Storage ZS7-2 Mid-Range TAA Compliant - Version All Versions and later
Oracle ZFS Storage Appliance Racked System ZS7-2 High-End - Version All Versions and later
7000 Appliance OS (Fishworks)

Purpose

Oracle ZFS Storage Appliance is optimized to handle streaming workloads that are common with backup applications.

To achieve the best performance, Oracle ZFS Storage Appliance pool and share settings should follow some general guidelines when acting as a backup target.

This MOS Note captures the basic settings as well as specific settings for some known backup applications that can benefit additional features.

 

Scope

This document only discusses using Oracle ZFS Storage Appliance as target storage for a backup application running appliance software OS 8.7.0 or later.

It assumes that the reader is already familiar with Oracle ZFS Storage Appliance administration.

 

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In this Document
Purpose
Scope
Details
 General Filesystem Configuration Recomendations
 Backup Applications That Can Benefit From Oracle ZFS Storage Appliance Deduplication
 Microsoft SQL Server Backup
 Veeam Backup v9.5

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