How to backup and clone peoplesoft database
We run PeopleSoft fscm/hcm databases on Oracle EE.
We have been using User Managed Cold Backup through TSM.
This allows us to satisfy Psoft database refresh (cloning) need: we restore the production backup to qa database server and recreate the control file to "rename" the cloned database to qa.
We have been looking at implementing RMAN (with catalog) as a backup solution for Psoft databases.
But the challenge is, every time you use RMAN to duplicate database from Target, the Auxiliary will receive a new dbid.
This on its own should not present a problem, until we get to the part -- the Auxiliary database later on is requested to be backed up by RMAN.