I just got off the phone with my NetBackup support.

Excuse me for my lack of knowledge here.  Not an Oracle/Linux guy at
all.

That being said, here is scenario of what happened nearest I can tell.

Oracle backups have been failing.

What ever function tells Oracle that it is ok to clean up transaction
logs has not been saying it is ok.

Log disk filled up

Oracle/dba guy deleted files to make room

Job fails with new error stating the log file it is supposed to backup
does not exist.

My NBSupport says he deleted the logs from the file system and not from
Oracle so when agent queries Oracle,  it says backup this file but when
it goes to do it,  file does not exist.

Make any sense at all ?

Dave

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From: Peter DrakeUnderkoffler [mailto:pcd at xinupro.com] 
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The oracle client does nothing like that, all the management of archive
and redo logs
is always handled within Oracle.  The agent simply understands both RMAN
and Oracle API
and executes a RMAN script.  Keep in mind that at times some house
cleaning is needed
between the RMAN catalogs and the NetBackup catalogs in reference to
expired images
to RMAN backup id names.

Thanks
Peter

Peter DrakeUnderkoffler
Xinupro, LLC
617-834-2352



Dave Brown wrote:
> Ok,  need some help from Oracle/Linux people here.
> 
>  
> 
> I am running an oracle backup using NB client 5.1 and Oracle client. 
> Our dba has created RMAN scripts to do hot backups of the databases.
> 
>  
> 
> I am wondering if the oracle client works like other database clients
> (exchange, sql)  in such that it will clear transaction logs after a
> good backup.
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