I'm not an RMAN / Oracle guru here and I work pretty closely with my DBAs to 
make our backups work but my testing with 5.1 MP4 shows that the schedule 
retention overrides the default-application-backup.  Further, how exactly do 
you run both a full and incremental in the same policy?  If your policy calls 
full_backup.cmd (.sh) and that calls RMAN - how does RMAN or the script know 
which schedule Netbackup is running?  Is this a scripting function you are 
using?  I use two policies to call full versus incremental backups because I 
run two backup scripts, full_backup and incr_backup .cmd/sh.  I guess you could 
customize your RMAN script to run a different command based on some sort of 
system input / variable?!  Anyhow, we're upgrading to 6.0 here in the next 
month or two and I'm going to have to tackle this problem then.
 
-Jonathan

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From: veritas-bu-bounces at mailman.eng.auburn.edu on behalf of mkiles
Sent: Fri 11/24/2006 11:10 AM
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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