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[Veritas-bu] RMAN backups - incomplete streams

2006-12-01 23:14:30
Subject: [Veritas-bu] RMAN backups - incomplete streams
From: backupicici at gmail.com (Veritas Netbackup)
Date: Sat, 2 Dec 2006 09:44:30 +0530
Hi Steven,

This sounds good, if its fine can u please help me embed the same trick.

Is it in the "Selection" script {the RMAN script} or bpstart script, this
clue wd help.

Regards,
BIJU KRISHNAN

On 12/2/06, Steven L. Sesar <ssesar at mitre.org> wrote:
>
>  Unfortunately, this is a limitation of NBU's Oracle agent. The exit
> status that you see in the activity monitor is not necessarily the exit
> status of your backup. It is the exit status of the SCRIPT that NBU runs,
> which kicks off your RMAN backup.
>
> What we did to get around this, was to build one monolithic script, which
> parses input passed to it from NBU when any given Oracle policy runs. Based
> on that (and a few other proprietary things), the script shuts down the apps
> associated with the SID that is about to be backed up, shuts down the SID,
> brings it up in startup mount mode, then builds and executes the RMAN code.
>
> The "trick", that we coded in, was that if RMAN fails, the script will
> exit with an artificial exit code, which in turn, gets passed to the
> activity monitor.
>
> Now, anyone that looks at the activity monitor, can trust the exit status
> of any given Oracle backup.
>
> --Steve
>
>
>
> Veritas Netbackup wrote:
>
> Hi All,
>
> I find it strange, say a RMAN backup has 3 streams, 2 of them complete and
> one of them does not appear et all. The backup would still show up as
> complete. The reasons like commn failure e.t.c. are logged in the
> dbclient.
>
> The RMAN catalog displays backup error but the veritas catalog backup is
> success.
>
> I have logged a support request and we are working towards resolving such
> errors. Would be great if the list can help me.
>
> Regards
> BIJU KRISHNAN
>
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