I was under the impression that RMAN backups were supposed to have INFINITE 
retention and that RMAN took care of expiring the images, there by keeping the 
RMAN catalog in sync with the NetBackup catalog. Otherwise RMAN will think 
there is a good backup, but NetBackup has expired it, if the retention level is 
different than what RMAN expects.

Someone please correct me if I'm wrong.

Patrick Whelan
NetBackup Specialist
Architect & Engineering
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-----Original Message-----
From: veritas-bu-bounces at mailman.eng.auburn.edu [mailto:veritas-bu-bounces 
at mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf Of mkiles
Sent: 24 November 2006 16:11
To: veritas-bu at mailman.eng.auburn.edu
Subject: [Veritas-bu] Oracle RMAN backups

Hi All

I am going through the NetBackup for Oracle Admin
guide, it mentions that you can have multiple
schedules in the policy with different retention
periods. That is you can have a FULL backup schedule
with retention period of 1 year and an INCREMENTAL
backup schedule with retention of 1 month.

This may be new in NBU 6, but I remeber in NBU 5.x,
the retention period that was always used was that of
Default-Application-Backup schedule. 

So in my NBU 5.0 environment, I have ONE policy for
FULL Oracle backup with 1 year retention and ONE
Oracle policy for INCREMENTAL backups with 1 month
retention. Each policy has 2 schedules in it, one of
those is Default-Application-Backup schedule, both
schedule have same retntion period, i.e. for FULL
Backup policy retention period for both schedules is 1
year and for INCREMENTAL policy retention period for
both schedules is 1 month.

So my question is, is it the same behaviour in NBU 6.0
for Oracle and SQL backups, or it has changed.

THX


 
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