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
About the NetBackup Discovery Service
The NetBackup Discovery Service (nbdisco) discovers Oracle database instances throughout the NetBackup environment. The discovery service reports to the master server when it finds instances of applications to help you build an Oracle Intelligent Policy. The service polls the clients upon NetBackup installation and periodically after installation (every 5 minutes). Instance management collects the discovered instances in an instance repository. The user can access this repository on the NetBackup Administration Console or by using the nboraadm command.
By default, this service is enabled to report instances. However, you can use the REPORT_CLIENT_DISCOVERIES client configuration entry to shut down or restart the service on a particular client. By default, REPORT_CLIENT_DISCOVERIES is not present in the Windows registry or the UNIX bp.conf
file.
To change the default setting, use bpsetconfig to add or change the entry:
In the Windows registry.
In the
/usr/openv/netbackup/bp.conf
file on UNIX.
Use the following format:REPORT_CLIENT_DISCOVERIES = TRUE | FALSE
Set REPORT_CLIENT_DISCOVERIES to FALSE to shut down the discovery service. The service shuts down within 10 minutes and remains down on the client. To turn on the discovery service on that client, set REPORT_CLIENT_DISCOVERIES to TRUE or remove the entire entry. Then run bp.start_all
on the client to restart the service.
To set this value on a client remotely, run the following command from the master server:
echo REPORT_CLIENT_DISCOVERIES=FALSE | bpsetconfig -h clientname