Veritas NetBackup™ for Oracle Administrator's Guide
- Introduction
- NetBackup for Oracle QuickStart
- Installing NetBackup for Oracle
- About linking Oracle RMAN with NetBackup for UNIX
- Oracle policy configuration
- Preparing for NetBackup for Oracle configuration
- Instance management for an Oracle Intelligent Policy
- About Oracle Intelligent Policies (OIP)
- About script- or template-based Oracle policies
- About adding backup selections to an Oracle policy
- About configuring the run-time environment
- About creating templates and shell scripts
- About creating RMAN scripts manually
- Performing backups and restores of Oracle
- About NetBackup for Oracle backups
- About NetBackup for Oracle restores
- Using NetBackup for Oracle in a Microsoft Windows cluster environment
- Guided Recovery
- Troubleshooting Guided Recovery
- NetBackup for Oracle with Snapshot Client
- About NetBackup for Oracle with Snapshot Client
- How NetBackup for Oracle with Snapshot Client works
- About configuring Snapshot Client with NetBackup for Oracle
- Restoring NetBackup for Oracle from a snapshot backup
- About configuring NetBackup for Oracle block-level incremental backups on UNIX
- About Snapshot Client effects
- About Oracle support for Replication Director
- Troubleshooting
- Troubleshooting RMAN backup or restore errors
- Appendix A. Real Application Clusters
- Appendix B. Best practices for protecting Oracle RAC with NetBackup
- Appendix C. Deduplication best practices
- Appendix D. Snapshot Client support of SFRAC
- Appendix E. Script-based block-level incremental (BLI) backups without RMAN on UNIX and Linux systems
- Verifying installation requirements for BLI backups without RMAN
- Creating NetBackup policies for script-based BLI backup
- Creating notify scripts for BLI backups
- Performing backups and restores
- About troubleshooting backup or restore errors
- Appendix F. XML Archiver
- NetBackup for Oracle XML export and XML import
- About XML export templates and shell scripts
- Performing an XML export archive
- Restoring an XML export archive
- Troubleshooting XML export or XML import errors
- Appendix G. Register authorized locations
Troubleshooting files for metadata collection operations at the time of the backup
The information in the following log files can be helpful when you troubleshoot metadata collection operations.
From the Oracle client host:
netbackup/logs/bphdb legacy logs
netbackup/logs/dbclient legacy logs (The directory must be writable by the Oracle users.)
ncf unified logs, OID 309, New Client Framework
ncforautil unified logs, OID 360, New Client Framework Oracle Utility
ncforaclepi, OID 348, New Client Framework Oracle Plugin
From the NetBackup media server: netbackup/logs/bpbrm legacy logs
From the NetBackup master server:
netbackup/logs/bprd legacy logs
nbars unified logs, OID 362, NetBackup Agent Request Service
dars unified logs, OID 363, Database Agent Request Service
For more information about NetBackup debug logs and reports, refer to the NetBackup Administrator's Guide, Volume I.