Hello Marianne

Would like to how it goes, we're looking at buying the enterprise
client for some of our oracle servers

Regards
Michael

2008/1/16, Marianne Van Den Berg <mvdberg AT stortech.co DOT za>:
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> A colleague pointed me in the right direction - it helps if one reads ALL
> the relevant manuals! (I was only reading Snapshot Client manual)
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> The answer was in the NBU for Oracle manual:
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> Traditional 'backup' statement in script gets replaced with 'backup proxy'.
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> Will test 1st thing tomorrow morning…
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> Marianne
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> From: veritas-bu-bounces AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
> [mailto:veritas-bu-bounces AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu] On
> Behalf Of Marianne Van Den Berg
> Sent: 16 January 2008 16:38
> To: VERITAS-BU AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
> Subject: [Veritas-bu] Snapshot Client problem on NBU 6.5.1
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> Hi
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> Anybody out there using new disk array snapshot method in 6.5?
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> We're using HP EVA snapshots with offhost backup (media server is Alt
> client).
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> Normal file system backups work fine - snapshot takes place, data is
> offloaded to media server.
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> Oracle rman policy runs successful, BUT the snapshot DOESN'T take place -
> data is backed up from the client across the network to the media server -
> NO ERRORS!
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> Any idea why snapshot doesn't take place and backup is done over the
> network?
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> Attributes of Oracle policy (file system policy is the same, only difference
> is Policy Type and Backup Selection):
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> Policy Name:       ora-snap
> Options:           0x0
> template:          FALSE
> c_unused1:         ?
> Names:             (none)
> Policy Type:       Oracle (4)
> Active:            yes
> Effective date:    01/14/2008 19:30:00
> Block Incremental: no
> Mult. Data Stream: no
> Perform Snapshot Backup:   yes
> Snapshot Method:           HP_EVA_Snapshot
> Snapshot Method Arguments: max_snapshots=1
> Perform Offhost Backup:    yes
> Backup Copy:               0
> Use Data Mover:            no
> Data Mover Type:           2
> Use Alternate Client:      yes
> Alternate Client Name:     dbs3
> Use Virtual Machine:      no
> Enable Instant Recovery:   no
> Policy Priority:   1
> Max Jobs/Policy:   4
> Disaster Recovery: 0
> Collect BMR Info:  no
> Keyword:           (none specified)
> Data Classification:       -
> Residence is Storage Lifecycle Policy:    no
> Client Encrypt:    no
> Checkpoint:        no
> Residence:         dbs3-hcart-robot-tld-0
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> Regards
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> Marianne
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