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NetBackup™ for Oracle Administrator's Guide

Last Published: 2023-10-23

Product(s): NetBackup (10.3.0.1, 10.3)

Introduction
1. About NetBackup for Oracle
2. NetBackup for Oracle features
NetBackup for Oracle QuickStart
1. Install NetBackup for Oracle
2. Register Oracle database instances
3. Add an Oracle database instance group
4. Create an Oracle policy
Installing NetBackup for Oracle
1. Verifying the operating system and platform compatibility
2. NetBackup server and client requirements for NetBackup for Oracle
3. Requirements for using NetBackup for Oracle in a NetBackup cluster
4. License for NetBackup for Oracle
5. About accurate licensing for Oracle
6. About linking Oracle RMAN with NetBackup for UNIX
  1. Verifying environment variables and shutting down Oracle
  2. Linking Oracle RMAN with NetBackup on UNIX platforms
Configuring RBAC for the Oracle administrator
1. RBAC roles for the Oracle administrator
Managing Oracle instances and databases
1. About Oracle discovery
  1. Configure discovery of Oracle clients
2. Managing Oracle instances
3. Manage Oracle databases and pluggable databases
  1. View Oracle database details
  2. View pluggable database details
4. About Oracle database instance groups
  1. Add an instance to an instance group
5. Clean up Oracle instance and databases
6. Authorizing a DBA to register instances or instance groups with the nboraadm command
Managing Oracle credentials
1. About Oracle credentials
2. Oracle credential types in the NetBackup Credential Management (CMS)
3. Add a credential to use for cloning an Oracle database
4. Edit or delete a named credential
5. Manage credentials for an instance or an Oracle RAC database
Configuring Oracle policies
1. Preparing for NetBackup for Oracle configuration
2. About Oracle Intelligent Policies (OIP)
3. About script-based Oracle policies
4. Configuring the logon account for the NetBackup Client Service for NetBackup for Oracle
5. Testing configuration settings for NetBackup for Oracle
Managing Oracle RAC
1. Oracle Real Application Clusters (RAC)
2. Add an Oracle Real Application Cluster (RAC)
3. Edit or delete an Oracle RAC database
Performing backups and restores of Oracle
1. Overview of using NetBackup for Oracle
2. Maintaining the RMAN repository
3. Querying the RMAN repository
4. About NetBackup for Oracle backups
  1. Running the NetBackup for Oracle shell script
  2. Running RMAN
5. Browsing backups using the bplist command
6. Managing expired backup images
  1. About preventing the direct expiration of backup images
7. About NetBackup for Oracle restores
8. Using NetBackup for Oracle in a Windows Server Failover Cluster (WSFC)
Oracle cloning
1. About cloning an Oracle database or a pluggable database
2. Create a custom RBAC role for Oracle cloning
3. Clone an Oracle database
4. Clone a pluggable database
5. Cloning a database from an Oracle Intelligent Policy (OIP) that is Data Guard aware
6. Additional functionality in NetBackup APIs
NetBackup Copilot for Oracle
1. About Oracle Copilot
2. Configuring an OIP using a share on the NetBackup appliance (Oracle Copilot)
3. Creating an instant recovery point from an Oracle Copilot image (NetBackup Appliance share)
4. Deleting an instant recovery point for Oracle Copilot instant recovery
5. Configuring an OIP using universal shares (Oracle Copilot)
  1. Recommendations when you configure an Oracle Copilot with universal shares
  2. Troubleshooting issues related to Oracle Copilot with universal shares
6. Managing an instant access mount from an Oracle Copilot universal share image
7. Cleaning up the Oracle Copilot share after point in time restore of database
8. Single-step restore to ASM storage from an Oracle Copilot recovery point or instant access mount
9. About restoring from a data file copy to ASM storage using RMAN
Oracle Copilot with instant access
1. Prerequisites when you configure an instant access Oracle database
  1. Hardware configuration requirement of instant access
2. Things to consider before you configure an instant access mount point
3. Backing up an Oracle database using Oracle Copilot policy with a universal share
4. Configure an instant access mount
5. View the livemount details of an instant access mount
6. Configuring Auto Image Replication for Oracle instant access backups
7. Delete an instant access mount
8. NetBackup for Oracle terms
9. Frequently asked questions
NetBackup for Oracle with Snapshot Client
1. About NetBackup for Oracle with Snapshot Client
2. How NetBackup for Oracle with Snapshot Client works
3. About configuring Snapshot Client with NetBackup for Oracle
4. Restoring NetBackup for Oracle from a snapshot backup
  1. About restoring individual files from a NetBackup for Oracle snapshot backup
  2. About NetBackup for Oracle restores of volumes and file systems using snapshot rollback
    1. Performing a snapshot rollback restore using a script or RMAN command
    2. Performing a NetBackup for Oracle point-in-time rollback restore from a SnapVault backup (UNIX)
5. About configuring NetBackup for Oracle block-level incremental backups on UNIX
6. About Snapshot Client effects
7. About Oracle support for Replication Director
  1. Configuring an Oracle Intelligent Policy using Replication Director
  2. Configuring a script-based Oracle policy
NetBackup Dedupe Direct for Oracle
1. About NetBackup Dedupe Direct for Oracle plug-in
2. Verifying the operating system and platform compatibility
3. Before you install NetBackup Dedupe Direct for Oracle plug-in
4. Installing NetBackup Dedupe Direct for Oracle plug-in on the Oracle database server
5. Using NetBackup Dedupe Direct for Oracle plug-in
6. Uninstalling the NetBackup Dedupe Direct for Oracle plug-in
Other Oracle configuration
1. Load balance Oracle RAC instances
2. Configure an Oracle Wallet with RAC within NetBackup
Troubleshooting
1. About troubleshooting NetBackup for Oracle
2. About NetBackup for Oracle troubleshooting steps
3. NetBackup debug logs and reports
4. Enabling the debug logs manually (Windows)
5. Enabling the debug logs manually (UNIX)
6. About the NetBackup for Oracle log files
7. Setting the debug level on a Windows client
8. Setting the debug level on a UNIX client
9. About RMAN utility logs
10. Troubleshooting RMAN backup or restore errors
  1. Verifying the RMAN script on UNIX
  2. Troubleshooting each stage of the backup or restore
11. Troubleshooting NetBackup for Oracle with Snapshot Client
12. Error: Unable to re-create online log
13. Minimizing timeout failures on large database restores
14. Minimizing the loading and unloading of tapes for database backups
15. Enabling the debug logs manually for NetBackup Dedupe Direct for Oracle plug-in
Appendix A. Deduplication best practices
1. Optimizing and deduplicating stream-based and proxy copy Oracle backups
2. Oracle stream handler
3. Configuring a stream-based Oracle backup
4. Example RMAN script for a stream-based backup
5. Editing the RMAN script and configuring NetBackup for Oracle for a proxy copy backup
6. Example RMAN script for a proxy copy backup
Appendix B. Snapshot Client support of SFRAC
1. About Snapshot Client support of SFRAC
2. NetBackup configuration for an SFRAC environment
3. Configuring the SFRAC environment for a backup operation
4. Performing a rollback restore in an SFRAC environment
5. Troubleshooting NetBackup in an SFRAC environment
Appendix C. Script-based Block-Level Incremental (BLI) Backups without RMAN on UNIX and Linux systems
1. About script-based Block-Level Incremental (BLI) Backups without RMAN
2. About BLI backup and restore operations
3. Verifying installation requirements for BLI backups without RMAN
  1. File system and Storage Checkpoint space management
4. Creating NetBackup policies for script-based BLI backup
5. Performing backups and restores
6. About troubleshooting backup or restore errors
Appendix D. XML Archiver
1. NetBackup for Oracle XML export and XML import
2. About the environment variables set by a user in the XML export parameter file
3. About XML export shell scripts
  1. Creating XML export scripts manually
4. Performing an XML export archive
5. Browsing XML export archives using bporaimp parameters
6. Browsing XML export archives using bplist
7. Restoring an XML export archive
8. Troubleshooting XML export or XML import errors
  1. Checking the logs to determine the source of an error
  2. Troubleshooting each stage of the XML export or XML import
9. Additional XML export and import logs
Appendix E. Register authorized locations
1. Registering authorized locations used by a NetBackup database script-based policy

Configuring an OIP using a share on the NetBackup appliance (Oracle Copilot)

The following prerequisites exist for using a NetBackup appliance share:

You must provision a share on the appliance for these options using the NetBackup Appliance Shell Menu.
These options are available to you but only configurable when you have a NetBackup appliance configured as the media server.

Note:

This feature requires a NetBackup appliance running software version 2.7.1 or later.

The Database backup shares option protects the database backups that an Oracle DBA creates on a share on the NetBackup appliance.

The Whole Database - Datafile Copy Share option enhances the OIP to allow the NetBackup Administrator to choose an appliance share as the destination for the first backup copy. The backup copy is a full set of data file copies that are maintained by updating only the changed blocks if Use Accelerator is selected.

If using Oracle Copilot with RAC then the following must be configured:

Each node of the RAC cluster must have access to the Oracle Copilot share.
The Oracle Copilot share has to be mounted on each node of the RAC cluster using the same mount point name on each node.

Oracle Copilot with NetBackup Appliance share workflow

Table: Appliance share workflow

Step	Description
Create Oracle Copilot Policy.	Create an Oracle Copilot policy. See Configuring an OIP using a share on the NetBackup appliance (Oracle Copilot).
Creating an instant recovery point.	Creating an instant recovery point. See Creating an instant recovery point from an Oracle Copilot image (NetBackup Appliance share).
Common tasks	See Cleaning up the Oracle Copilot share after point in time restore of database. See Single-step restore to ASM storage from an Oracle Copilot recovery point or instant access mount. See About restoring from a data file copy to ASM storage using RMAN.

Step

Description

Create Oracle Copilot Policy.

Create an Oracle Copilot policy.

See Configuring an OIP using a share on the NetBackup appliance (Oracle Copilot).

Creating an instant recovery point.

See Creating an instant recovery point from an Oracle Copilot image (NetBackup Appliance share).

Common tasks

See Cleaning up the Oracle Copilot share after point in time restore of database.

See Single-step restore to ASM storage from an Oracle Copilot recovery point or instant access mount.

See About restoring from a data file copy to ASM storage using RMAN.

Use the following procedure to set up a backup policy that protects shares on the NetBackup appliance.

To configure an OIP using the Database backup shares or Whole Database - Datafile Copy Share options

(Database Backup Shares option) The Oracle DBA asks NetBackup administrator for the appliance share information.
The NetBackup administrator uses the NetBackup Appliance Shell Menu to create a share on the appliance and then sets permissions for the share.
- For more information about how to set up the share, see Creating a share from the NetBackup Appliance Shell Menu in the Veritas NetBackup 52xx and 5330 Appliance Administrator's Guide
The NetBackup administrator sends information about the appliance share to system administrator.
The system administrator mounts an appliance share on the Oracle database server using the OS tools.
(Database backup shares option) The Oracle DBA uses RMAN to create a database backup on the appliance share.

Configure an OIP.

Attributes tab	Select Oracle as the Policy type. The Use Accelerator option is automatically selected when the Whole Database - Datafile Copy Share option is selected. If the Use Accelerator option is unchecked the full set of data files are copied again (including changed blocks). When the Use Accelerator option is used, the Oracle Change Block tracking should be enabled for better performance. For information on the Attributes tab, see the NetBackup Administrator's Guide, Volume I.
Schedules tab	Click Add and select Full backup. For information on the Schedules tab, see the NetBackup Administrator's Guide, Volume I.
Instance and databases tab	Select the Oracle database instance.
Backup selections tab	Select the Database backup shares option.
Oracle tab	Configure the Database backup share options to delete backup sets and backup copies.

Note:

The NetBackup appliance media server can only be configured in a pure IPv4 or dual stack IPv4/IPv6 mode.

More Information

Instances and databases tab

Backup Selections tab

Oracle tab