The only thing I've had trouble with in an NBU 3.1.1/3.2, Solaris 2.6,
and Oracle 8.x environment has been with multiple NICs on the database
and backup server. The solution was given on this list, and it was to
add the REQUIRED_INTERFACE in the bp.conf on the Oracle w/RMAN clients.
RMAN appears to sometimes be picky/confused by multiple interfaces.

Ryan


Michael Traves wrote:
> 
> I'm looking for some warm and fuzzies for an upgrade consisting of Oracle,
> HPUX, and NBU 3.2.  We've had issues in the past (much debugging by Veritas)
> which is making this upgrade rather tense.  Of particular note, multiple
> NIC's caused significant headaches during deployment previously (servers
> with more than two NIC's).
> 
> Current environment -- NBU Master 3.2P226, Solaris 2.6, NBU Client 3.2P226,
> HPUX 10.20 and 11.00, running Oracle EBU on 7.3.2, 7.3.3, 7.3.4 and Oracle
> RMAN on 8.0.4, 8.0.5 with NetBackup Oracle Extensions.
> 
> First Interim environment -- NBU Master 3.2P466, Solaris 2.6, NBU Client
> 3.2P466, HPUX 10.20 and 11.00, running Oracle versions as above.
> 
> Second Future environment -- NBU Master 3.4P482, Solaris 2.6, NBU Client
> 3.2P466, HPUX/Oracle as above
> 
> Final -- NBU Master 3.4P482, Solaris 2.6, NBU Client 3.4P482, HPUX/Oracle as
> above.
> 
> Is anyone running an environment similar to one of the steps above?  Anyone
> gone through the transition in a production environment and can offer any
> insight?  Any issues we need to be aware of?
> 

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