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process to achieve “zero” downtime for backups on the primary production
server. This is the best available solution to backup: quickly copy/duplicate
your database to another environment/machine.
If the backend for your storage is an enterprise storage server, separating the
areas where the database and the backup volumes are (isolating them by
adapters) decreases the I/O contention during a database backup.
System architecture:
Adding more I/O paths between the database server and storage will increase
the throughput of data. If your database is on Enterprise storage, then
increasing the number of Fibre Channel cards that are connected to a high
speed storage switch can decrease the time tak