Disaster Recovery & Backup

		BacPac
		Disk to Disk

If you are currently doing disk-to-disk backups, especially large databases, you could save many hours of down time and millions of blocks of disk space by using BacPac.

BacPac is from 3 to 7 times faster than VMS Backup when saving files disk-to-disk, and has the added benefit of producing much smaller savesets. Here are some typical examples

Comparison times on an AlphaServer 800 running OpenVMS 7.1

1. Three Oracle database files approximately 1.9 GB
2. A single large database file
3. Image save of a system disk

Data for chart

	Backup / minutes	BacPac / minutes
Oracle database approx. 1.9 GB	154	15
Single large database file	48	7
Image save of system disk	63	15