I am talking about NetBackup expiration only, RMAN
catalog should be cross checked with NBU catalog,
periodically to keep both in sync.

In my case I dont use RMAN catalog, I use control
file.

Thx
--- "Whelan, Patrick" <Patrick.Whelan at colt.net> wrote:

> I was under the impression that RMAN backups were
> supposed to have INFINITE retention and that RMAN
> took care of expiring the images, there by keeping
> the RMAN catalog in sync with the NetBackup catalog.
> Otherwise RMAN will think there is a good backup,
> but NetBackup has expired it, if the retention level
> is different than what RMAN expects.
> 
> Someone please correct me if I'm wrong.
> 
> Patrick Whelan
> NetBackup Specialist
> Architect & Engineering
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> -----Original Message-----
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> On Behalf Of mkiles
> Sent: 24 November 2006 16:11
> To: veritas-bu at mailman.eng.auburn.edu
> Subject: [Veritas-bu] Oracle RMAN backups
> 
> Hi All
> 
> I am going through the NetBackup for Oracle Admin
> guide, it mentions that you can have multiple
> schedules in the policy with different retention
> periods. That is you can have a FULL backup schedule
> with retention period of 1 year and an INCREMENTAL
> backup schedule with retention of 1 month.
> 
> This may be new in NBU 6, but I remeber in NBU 5.x,
> the retention period that was always used was that
> of
> Default-Application-Backup schedule. 
> 
> So in my NBU 5.0 environment, I have ONE policy for
> FULL Oracle backup with 1 year retention and ONE
> Oracle policy for INCREMENTAL backups with 1 month
> retention. Each policy has 2 schedules in it, one of
> those is Default-Application-Backup schedule, both
> schedule have same retntion period, i.e. for FULL
> Backup policy retention period for both schedules is
> 1
> year and for INCREMENTAL policy retention period for
> both schedules is 1 month.
> 
> So my question is, is it the same behaviour in NBU
> 6.0
> for Oracle and SQL backups, or it has changed.
> 
> THX
> 
> 
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