NetBackup™ for Oracle Administrator's Guide
- Introduction
- About NetBackup for Oracle
- NetBackup for Oracle features
- NetBackup for Oracle terminology
- NetBackup for Oracle operation using the Oracle Intelligent Policy
- Logging the RMAN input and output on a client
- NetBackup for Oracle operation using a script-based policy
- About Oracle RMAN
- About the Oracle recovery catalog
- NetBackup for Oracle QuickStart
- Installing NetBackup for Oracle
- Verifying the operating system and platform compatibility
- NetBackup server and client requirements
- Requirements for using NetBackup for Oracle in a NetBackup cluster
- License for NetBackup for Oracle
- About accurate licensing 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 (OIP)
- About the NetBackup Discovery Service
- Viewing the Oracle database instance repository
- Manually adding an Oracle database instance to the repository
- Registering an Oracle database instance
- About Oracle database instance groups
- Adding an instance to an instance group
- Automatic Registration of an instance group
- About instance actions
- About Oracle Intelligent Policies (OIP)
- Creating an Oracle Intelligent Policy (OIP)
- Oracle database upgrade effect on Oracle Intelligent Policies
- Configuring NetBackup for Oracle automatic backup schedules
- About NetBackup for Oracle schedule properties using Oracle Intelligent Policy
- Oracle Intelligent Policy - Storage and Retention
- About Oracle Intelligent Policy master server behavior
- Instances and Databases tab
- Backup Selections tab
- Oracle tab
- About using a NetBackup appliance share for Oracle backups (Oracle Copilot)
- Configuring an OIP using a share on the NetBackup appliance (Oracle Copilot)
- Configuring an OIP using universal shares (Oracle Copilot)
- About script-based Oracle policies
- Configuring the logon account for the NetBackup Client Service for NetBackup for Oracle
- Testing configuration settings for NetBackup for Oracle
- Performing backups and restores of Oracle
- Overview of using NetBackup for Oracle
- Maintaining the RMAN repository
- Querying the RMAN repository
- About NetBackup for Oracle backups
- Browsing backups using the bplist command
- Managing expired backup images
- About NetBackup for Oracle restores
- Using NetBackup for Oracle in a Microsoft Windows cluster environment
- Creating an instant recovery point from an Oracle Copilot image
- Deleting an instant recovery point for Oracle Copilot instant recovery
- Creating an instant access mount from an Oracle Copilot universal share image
- Cleaning up the Oracle Copilot share after point in time restore of database
- Single-step restore to ASM storage from an Oracle Copilot recovery point
- About restoring from a data file copy to ASM storage using RMAN
- NetBackup for Oracle with Snapshot Client
- About NetBackup for Oracle with Snapshot Client
- How NetBackup for Oracle with Snapshot Client works
- About the NetBackup for Oracle backup and restore operations
- Database objects supported by advanced backup methods
- About NetBackup multistreaming
- RMAN multiple channels
- Restoring data files to a new location
- Redirecting a restore to a different client
- Symbolic links and raw data files (UNIX)
- Quick I/O data files (UNIX)
- RMAN incremental backups
- Proxy backup examples
- 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
- NetBackup Dedupe Direct for Oracle
- About NetBackup Dedupe Direct for Oracle plug-in
- Verifying the operating system and platform compatibility
- Before you install NetBackup Dedupe Direct for Oracle plug-in
- Installing NetBackup Dedupe Direct for Oracle plug-in on the Oracle database server
- Using NetBackup Dedupe Direct for Oracle plug-in
- Configuring the NetBackup Dedupe Direct for Oracle plug-in
- NetBackup Dedupe Direct for Oracle rman.cfg file parameters
- Configuring External Certificate Authority (ECA)
- ECA msdp_app.cfg file parameters
- Configuring Oracle RAC
- Disabling Oracle stream handler
- Performing the RMAN backup directly to MSDP server
- Performing the RMAN restore directly from the MSDP storage server
- Replicating the images to the WORM storage server in Flex Appliance
- Uninstalling the NetBackup Dedupe Direct for Oracle plug-in
- Troubleshooting
- About troubleshooting NetBackup for Oracle
- About NetBackup for Oracle troubleshooting steps
- NetBackup debug logs and reports
- Enabling the debug logs manually (Windows)
- Enabling the debug logs manually (UNIX)
- About the NetBackup for Oracle log files
- Setting the debug level on a Windows client
- Setting the debug level on a UNIX client
- About RMAN utility logs
- Troubleshooting RMAN backup or restore errors
- Troubleshooting NetBackup for Oracle with Snapshot Client
- Minimizing timeout failures on large database restores
- Minimizing the loading and unloading of tapes for database backups
- Enabling the debug logs manually for NetBackup Dedupe Direct for Oracle plug-in
- Appendix A. Deduplication best practices
- Optimizing and deduplicating stream-based and proxy copy Oracle backups
- Oracle stream handler
- Configuring a stream-based Oracle backup
- Example RMAN script for a stream-based backup
- Editing the RMAN script and configuring NetBackup for Oracle for a proxy copy backup
- Example RMAN script for a proxy copy backup
- Appendix B. Snapshot Client support of SFRAC
- Appendix C. Script-based Block-Level Incremental (BLI) Backups without RMAN on UNIX and Linux systems
- About script-based Block-Level Incremental (BLI) Backups without RMAN
- About BLI backup and restore operations
- Verifying installation requirements for BLI backups without RMAN
- Creating NetBackup policies for script-based BLI backup
- Number of policies required for BLI backup
- About BLI policy attributes
- About the BLI client list
- Backup selections list for BLI backups
- About schedules for BLI backup policies
- Example Oracle BLI backup policy
- Setting the maximum jobs per client global attribute
- About BLI backup methods
- Creating notify scripts for BLI backups
- Performing backups and restores
- About troubleshooting backup or restore errors
- Appendix D. XML Archiver
- NetBackup for Oracle XML export and XML import
- About the environment variables set by a user in the XML export parameter file
- About XML export shell scripts
- Performing an XML export archive
- Browsing XML export archives using bporaimp parameters
- Browsing XML export archives using bplist
- Restoring an XML export archive
- Troubleshooting XML export or XML import errors
- Additional XML export and import logs
- Appendix E. Register authorized locations
Configuring an OIP using a share on the NetBackup appliance (Oracle Copilot)
Note:
This feature requires a NetBackup appliance running software version 2.7.1 or later.
The option protects the database backups that an Oracle DBA creates on a share on the NetBackup appliance.
The 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 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.
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
On the 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
On the Schedules tab, click New and select Full Backup.
For information on the Schedules tab, see the NetBackup Administrator's Guide, Volume I.
Instance tab
Select the Oracle database instance in the Instance tab.
Backup Selections tab
Select the Database Backup Shares option in the Backup Selections tab.
Oracle tab
Set up the deletion of backup sets and data file copies in the Oracle tab.
Note:
The option can only be configured when the media server is a NetBackup appliance. This option does not work with any other type of media server.
Note:
The NetBackup appliance media server can only be configured in a pure IPv4 or dual stack IPv4/IPv6 mode.