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I’m fairly new to Commvault, and I’m responsible for our SAP for Oracle backups.  I am going through our systems and I’m trying to determine what the benefits/tradeoffs of a “Selective Online” vs Full Online backups.  There isn’t much data about what is/isn’t backed-up between the two options, if any. We currently run one full backup per week and arclogs run every 15 min to 1 hour depending on the data/usage.  We backup to disk with a secondary offsite disk aux copy and Metallic aux copy.  No tapes.

Thanks!

Hi @Ike 

Selective copy is a self content backup used for longer retention. All the data and logs are retained together while using a selective copy with extended retention 

 

Additional information could be found @ https://intdocresource2.gp.cv.commvault.com/2022e/expert/11727_selective_online_full_backups.html

 

Let me know in case of any other questions.

 

Regards,

 

 

So are Selective Online and Online Full the same with the exception of what you say below?

i.e. Datafiles, Tablespaces, etc...

Hi @Ike 

Selective copy is a self content backup used for longer retention. All the data and logs are retained together while using a selective copy with extended retention 

 

Additional information could be found @ https://intdocresource2.gp.cv.commvault.com/2022e/expert/11727_selective_online_full_backups.html

 

Let me know in case of any other questions.

 

Regards,

 

 

 

Yes, SOF and regular full protects the entire database ctrl file + Datafiles (Tablespaces) and archive logs

Thanks!

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