We had a problem a while back, and we never did figure out what was
causing it, but
our nightly incrementals on this Oracle database were always the same
size as the previous full.
There were some users on there testing things, but no indications from
them that
they were doing anything that would have caused this weirdness. The
Oracle database was about 80 GB, and
we were using NMO 4.2, Oracle release was 10g and NetWorker 7.2.2. The
first full we ran
was around 80 GB (8 save sets), but each incremental thereafter was also
80 GB (and 8 save sets)
with no reported errors or any messages about no save sets with that
name existing in the media
database, etc. Basically, nothing to indicate anything was amiss other
than the large sizes.
The NSR client resource specified the rman script as the saveset, and it
had the appropriate
nsrnmo script listed under the 'Backup command' field.
The full rman script used a backup command like this:
backup full filesperset 10 format 'FULL_%d_%U' database;
The incremental rman script used a backup command like this:
backup incremental level 1 cumulative filesperset 10 format
'INCR_CUM_%d_%U' database;
We finally took the database off line. Later when re-testing, we changed
the syntax of the
two rman scripts respectively to this:
backup as backupset incremental level 0 cumulative database;
and:
backup as backupset incremental level 1 cumulative database;
We've not seen this behavior again.
I realize it's impossible for anyone to really troubleshoot this, but
can anyone offer any plausible
explanations for this behavior, assuming, of course, that back when this
was happening, we
*really* were specifying the correct rman script and not the wrong one.
I'm wondering if maybe at some point we shut down the database,
recovered a copy and then
never ran another level full but kept running incrementals? Would that
cause this behavior, say,
if we'd somehow recovered maybe an older version? Maybe by not running
another full after
the recovery then every subsequent cumulative incremental thinks
everything has changed?
Not saying we did that, but could have.
Thanks.
George
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