> -----Original Message-----
> From: Sixbury, Dan [mailto:sixbury AT celeritas DOT com]
> Sent: Thursday, September 06, 2001 3:27 PM
> To: 'Ballowe, Charles'
> Cc: EBU (E-mail)
> Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] Oracle Backup question
> 
> 
> When you initiate the oracle backups, are they being scheduled from
> Netbackup, or are you using cron on the server to run the 
> local rman scripts
> which use the class and schedules that you mention?  

Netbackup is handling the schedules -- I'm kicking them off as manual
backups as I test things.

> So far as seeing default-policy running when you perform the 
> Oracle rman
> backups, you always see the default-policy as running when 
> you initiate a
> Netbackup for Oracle / RMAN backup.

Ok -- any reason this is the case, or is it one of those things that "just
is"?

> I wasn't sure about the retention periods, but if you are 
> needing different
> retention periods for your backups you may want to set up 3 
> classes assuming
> that you want different retention periods for all three schedules. 

Isn't that what the retention period in the schedule is supposed to
accomplish? It just seems cleanest to kick off the backups from one class
(per database instance). If a class for each retention period is what needs
to be done, then I can do that, but it just feels like a work-around.

-Charles Ballowe
 
> 
> Dan
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ballowe, Charles [mailto:CBallowe AT usg DOT com]
> Sent: Thursday, September 06, 2001 3:03 PM
> To: 'veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu'
> Subject: [Veritas-bu] Oracle Backup question
> 
> 
> I'd like to have a class for oracle backups with 3 schedules 
> in the class. A
> monthly 
> (every 4 weeks) cold full, a weekly hot full, and a nightly 
> hot cumulative
> incremental. I have a script that calls the appropriate rman 
> information
> based on the NB_ORA_PC_SCHED 
> variable in its environment when it's called. This works and 
> performs the
> appropriate type of backup, but the jobs that actually write 
> to tape show up
> as being in the default-policy. This, of course, doesn't work 
> out because
> the retention periods that go with the schedules aren't gonna take.
> 
> If I put the 'send' command into the rman script, I end up 
> with an error 240
> "No schedules of the correct type exist in this class".
> 
> Any ideas what I might be doing wrong?
> 
> -Charles Ballowe
> 
> Platform:
>       NBU 3.4 DataCenter
>       Tru64 5.1
>       SSO
>       Oracle 8.1.7
> _______________________________________________
> Veritas-bu maillist  -  Veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
> http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
>