Hi

Im a newbie to Netbackup and to oracle. We have oracle 9.2 running on a
solaris 8 box, we are using netbackup 4.5. The netbackup server is a
windows 2000 box - we only want to use netbackup to backup hot databases to
the windows box but we have managed to backup non database files without
problem.

Ive tried to run the jbpSA script but this bombs out with:
<jbpSA>
getAppletParameter - applet is null, returning default value.
com.sun.java.swing.plaf.motif.MotifLookAndFeel/icons/UpFolder.gif not
found.
com.sun.java.swing.plaf.motif.MotifLookAndFeel/icons/ListView.gif not
found.
com.sun.java.swing.plaf.motif.MotifLookAndFeel/icons/Computer.gif not
found.
com.sun.java.swing.plaf.motif.MotifLookAndFeel/icons/File.gif not found.
com.sun.java.swing.plaf.motif.MotifLookAndFeel/icons/Directory.gif not
found.
com.sun.java.swing.plaf.motif.MotifLookAndFeel/icons/FloppyDrive.gif not
found.
com.sun.java.swing.plaf.motif.MotifLookAndFeel/icons/NewFolder.gif not
found.
com.sun.java.swing.plaf.motif.MotifLookAndFeel/icons/DetailsView.gif not
found.
com.sun.java.swing.plaf.motif.MotifLookAndFeel/icons/HomeFolder.gif not
found.
com.sun.java.swing.plaf.motif.MotifLookAndFeel/icons/HardDrive.gif not
found.
com.sun.java.swing.plaf.motif.MotifLookAndFeel/icons/JavaCup.gif not found.
java.lang.NullPointerException: NullPointerException
</jbpSA>

So Ive tried copying the rman/samples/hot_database_backup.sh and editing.
At first we had an authentication error but we fixed that. Now we have:

<LOG>
Script /usr/local/sysadmin/backup/bin/psetest_hot_database_backup.sh
==== started on Wed Feb 12 15:27:10 EST 2003 ====


RMAN: /home/oracle/bin/rman
ORACLE_SID: PSETEST
ORACLE_USER: oracle
ORACLE_HOME: /home/oracle

NB_ORA_FULL: 1
NB_ORA_INCR: 0
NB_ORA_CINC: 0
NB_ORA_SERV: ctxmeta
NB_ORA_POLICY: Oracle_on_Oceanus

Full backup requested
RMAN> 2> 3> 4> 5> 6> 7> 8> 9> 10> 11> 12> 13> 14> 15> 16> 17> 18> 19> 20>
21> 22> 23> 24> 25> 26> 27> 28> 29> 30> 31> 32> 33> 34> 35> 36> 37> 38>
 RMAN> E_TEST (DBID=2453592760)
 using target database controlfile instead of recovery catalog

 RMAN> 2> 3> 4> 5> 6> 7> 8> 9> 10> 11> 12> 13> 14> 15> 16> 17> 18> 19> 20>
 21> 22> 23> 24> 25> 26> 27> 28> 29> 30> 31> 32> 33> 34> 35> 36> 37> 38>
  
  RMAN-00571: ===========================================================
  RMAN-00569: =============== ERROR MESSAGE STACK FOLLOWS ===============
  RMAN-00571: ===========================================================
  RMAN-03009: failure of allocate command on ch00 channel at 02/12/2003
  15:27:12
  ORA-19554: error allocating device, device type: SBT_TAPE, device name: 
  ORA-27211: Failed to load Media Management Library
  Additional information: 25

  RMAN> 

  Recovery Manager complete.

  Script /usr/local/sysadmin/backup/bin/psetest_hot_database_backup.sh
  ==== ended in error on Wed Feb 12 15:27:12 EST 2003 ====

</LOG>

The relevant bit of the script is:

<SCRIPT>
$RMAN target $TARGET_CONNECT_STR nocatalog msglog $RMAN_LOG_FILE append <<
EOF
RUN {
ALLOCATE CHANNEL ch00 TYPE 'SBT_TAPE';
ALLOCATE CHANNEL ch01 TYPE 'SBT_TAPE';
BACKUP
    $BACKUP_TYPE
    SKIP INACCESSIBLE
    TAG hot_db_bk_level0
    FILESPERSET 5
    # recommended format
    FORMAT 'bk_%s_%p_%t'
    DATABASE;
    sql 'alter system archive log current';
RELEASE CHANNEL ch00;
RELEASE CHANNEL ch01;
# backup all archive logs
</SCRIPT>

I get the feeling that SBT_TAPE is not correct but dont know what to set it
to.

HELP PLEASE

TIA

BB