Hello All
Thanks for Jago and Scott's help and Comment.....
I will do some testing on my own to see how it behavior
Thanks for everyone's help
Mike
On Tue, 23 Apr 2002 scott.kendall AT abbott DOT com wrote:
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> This is the way I understand it...
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> You have to have a Backup Policy, whether it is the Default-Policy or one you
> have created yourself, with an open backup window for the RMAN backups to run.
> The schedule information is passed as variables to the RMAN script and you can
> do different types of backups based on the schedule you are running (by adding
> the logic to your RMAN script), but you still have to have a Backup Policy
> defined.
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> I wouldn't set the schedule retentions to infinite (different from the default
> policy retention). This value defines the length of time that NetBackup will
> remember a backup has been done. I don't see any gains from NetBackup knowing
> it ran a schedule 3 years ago (when the backup occurs every week)... this is
> different than keeping the image for 3 years in the image catalog... I'm
> talking about just knowing when the last backup using that schedule occured.
> The requirement is that the retention be at least as long as the frequency...
> if you're using NBU schedule windows as opposed to something like CRON to
> launch the RMAN script manually (otherwise, it "forgets" it did the backup and
> initiates one before it actually needs to).
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> As for comment... "3) Expiring images under NBU does NOT expire the reference
> under RMAN" It can if you want it to with an RMAN command telling it to
> "sync" to NBU... but it won't do this automatically.
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> When you expire in RMAN it does automatically expire in NBU. If you decide to
> do it this way, infinite on the Backup Policy would be fine.
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> - Scott
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> "Ballowe, Charles"
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> your backups aren't required to use the Default-Policy. You can add lines
> to your RMAN scripts that tell it which policy to use. This is discussed
> in a thread from last september:
> http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/pipermail/veritas-bu/2001-September/005607.htm
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> enjoy
> -charlie
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> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Michael Suen [mailto:suen AT cosmos.buffalo DOT edu]
> > Sent: Monday, April 22, 2002 8:47 PM
> > To: Veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
> > Subject: [Veritas-bu] NBU Oracle Agent / RMAN
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> > Hello EveryOne
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> > I have a Question about the Retention and stuff.. here is what I
> > understand (I think)
> >
> > 1) The Retention Setting in the "Default-Policy" is the
> > REAL/Actual retention of the NBU Images
> > 2) The Retention Setting in the Schedules (Automatic,
> > Differential, Cumulative) is just used to find
> > out "When" should the
> > backup being run.
> > 3) Expiring images under NBU does NOT expire the reference under
> > RMAN
> >
> > O.K.. with that...
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> > Since I have to use RMAN to do the expire, Can I set
> > the Retention
> > under "Default-Policy" to be INFINITY
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> > AND the Retention Setting under the Schedules
> > (Auto,Diff) ALSO to
> > be INFINITY ???
> >
> > Then I just use RMAN to do ALL of the expire??
> >
> > BTW, I have NBU 3.4.2 on Solaris
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> >
> > Is that make sense or I am missing somewhere along the line??
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> >
> > Thank you very much for your help...
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> > thanks
> >
> > Mike
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