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[Veritas-bu] I need some additional help to backup oracle.

2006-11-27 11:30:52
Subject: [Veritas-bu] I need some additional help to backup oracle.
From: krzys at perfekt.net (Krzys)
Date: Mon, 27 Nov 2006 11:30:52 -0500 (EST)
When I look at the licenses that I have installed on my server I have this 
listed, is this the add-on license that you refering to or this is something 
else?

Thanks for help.


License Key:     xxxxxxxx
Date Added:      Mar 30, 2006 at 23:16:45
Host:            mybkhost
Product:         NetBackup
Client count:    0
Expires:         No Expiration Date
Feature:         Oracle extension

License Key:     xxxxxxxx
Date Added:      Mar 30, 2006 at 23:14:53
Host:            mybkhost
Product:         NetBackup
Client count:    0
Expires:         No Expiration Date
Feature:         Oracle extension


On Mon, 27 Nov 2006, ckstehman at pepco.com wrote:

> It is an add-on that you need to purchase from Symantec and install
> separately.  It interfaces RMAN to the tape backups managed by
> Netbackup
>
>
> =============================
> Carl Stehman
> IT Distributed Services Team
> Pepco Holdings, Inc.
> 202-331-6619
> Pager 301-765-2703
> ckstehman at pepco.com
>
>
>
> Krzys <krzys at perfekt.net>
> 11/27/2006 10:00 AM
>
> To
> ckstehman at pepco.com
> cc
> Dominik.J.Pietrzykowski at nab.com.au, veritas-bu at mailman.eng.auburn.edu,
> veritas-bu-bounces at mailman.eng.auburn.edu, Ed Wilts <ewilts at ewilts.org>
> Subject
> Re: [Veritas-bu] I need some additional help to backup oracle.
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> Oracle agent, is that some additional software I need to download and
> install?
> or is it already installed in my backup server/slient installation but I
> just
> need to enable it on a server with a license?
>
> Thanks.
>
> Chris
>
>
> On Sun, 26 Nov 2006, ckstehman at pepco.com wrote:
>
>> I also recommend that you use the oracle agent...  There is no need to
>> shut down the databases, and it is much faster.
>>
>>
>> =============================
>> Carl Stehman
>> IT Distributed Services Team
>> Pepco Holdings, Inc.
>> 202-331-6619
>> Pager 301-765-2703
>> ckstehman at pepco.com
>>
>>
>>
>> Dominik.J.Pietrzykowski at nab.com.au
>> Sent by: veritas-bu-bounces at mailman.eng.auburn.edu
>> 11/22/2006 11:39 PM
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>> To
>> Ed Wilts <ewilts at ewilts.org>
>> cc
>> veritas-bu at mailman.eng.auburn.edu,
>> veritas-bu-bounces at mailman.eng.auburn.edu
>> Subject
>> Re: [Veritas-bu] I need some additional help to backup oracle.
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>> I recommend you use the agents. They will do cold backups when the
>> database is free although they will fail
>> when the DB is busy. So you need to choose a time when the DB will be
>> quiet and can be quiesced.
>> Otherwise you need to do hot backups with logs etc. This is what i
>> recommend.
>>
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>> Ed Wilts <ewilts at ewilts.org>
>> Sent by: veritas-bu-bounces at mailman.eng.auburn.edu
>> 23/11/2006 01:14 PM
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>>
>> To
>> Krzys <krzys at perfekt.net>
>> cc
>> veritas-bu at mailman.eng.auburn.edu
>> Subject
>> Re: [Veritas-bu] I need some additional help to backup oracle.
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>> On 11/22/2006 1:25 PM, Krzys wrote:
>>> You guys are so much more helpfull than any other place... even with
>> symantec
>>> support I dont get that much support as from you guys, but anyway I
> have
>>
>>> netbackup and one of the backup clients is running oracle. In my
>> previous job
>>> DBA's were doing cold/hot backups and they just dumped files to
>> directories that
>>> I then backed up, in this job culture I guess is sligtly different so
>> DBA's told
>>> me that this is my job to do backups... So anyway for the cold backup
>> they
>>> provided me with stop script to stop oracle databases (I know its not
> to
>> good
>>> and it causes all sorts of problems if database would not came back
> etc)
>> But
>>> despite those aspects what would I need to do to acomplish this task of
>> backing
>>> up system with oracle down...
>>
>> Don't even go there.  Believe me, you *will* have issues.  You *will*
>> leave databases down when they're supposed to be up.  You *will* be
>> phoned and yelled at.  Your DBAs *will* be phoned and yelled at.
>>
>> Your previous job's approach is tolerable - it's what we do here today
>> (until we get the agents into production).  The approach they want in
>> your current job is NOT a good idea.  It sucks.  It breaks randomly.  It
>> leaves databases down.  Don't try it.  You'll be sorry.
>>
>>                .../Ed
>>
>>
>> --
>> Ed Wilts, Mounds View, MN, USA
>> mailto:ewilts at ewilts.org
>>
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