--- Jeff Lightner <jlightner AT water DOT com> wrote:

> We are new to RAC and are just setting up RMAN to do
> it.   Our DBA doing
> the RMAN side of things has done that but not RAC.
> 
>  
> 
> This is on RedHat EL AS 3 (kernel 2.4.2) using ocfs
> filesystems.
> 
>  
> 
> The sample scripts that come with Netbackup don't
> mention RAC.  
> 
>  
> 
> From the Netbackup for Oracle Guide I see we should
> use the virtual name
> to do the backup.   
> 
>  
> 
> 1)       When connecting to the database he is
> wondering how does he
> connect in the script?  
> 
> He is doing first instance then doing second
> instance for its archive
> logs (even though all are on shared OCFS
> filesystem).   That is if DB
> name is PROD he is connecting to instance PROD1 and
> instance PROD2.
> Based on the setup of the tnsnames I believe he
> should just be able to
> tell the script to connect to PROD as it has
> definitions for the virtual
> nodes for PROD1 and PROD2.
> 
>  
> 
> 2)       Does anyone have RMAN scripts for netbackup
> for RACK they'd be
> willing to share so we could model from them?
> 
>  
> 
> TIA

we have 9i rac and we changed very little from a
single instance rman script for 9i or 8i to use with
rac.  we connect to the dbname target instead of the
sid value.  outside of that nothing diff i can think
of for rac.

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