Re: [Veritas-bu] netbackup for Oracle configuration

I've only found this true on older versions of Oracle. In fact, I ran a 6.5 "oracle_link" for an 11.1 home just a week or so ago with a DB up and running and after trying a backup that went "clunk" because the link had not yet been made for this Oracle home. Backups ran fine immediately after running "oracle_link".

Note: NetBackup version 6.5 "oracle_link" needs to be taught that Oracle version 11g is just like 10g, for the purposes of linking libobk.

Cheers, Wayne

Tip: A NetBackup Server (Master and/or Media Server) schedules backups, contains the catalog of of backup objects, and accepts the backup data to store someplace. A NetBackup Client is your server that actually accomplishes work for your organization. Your database server is a NetBackup Client. If you are a "small" shop, you'll have one or two NetBackup servers, and many NetBackup Clients feeding backup data to the NetBackup server. A NetBackup Agent, such as the agent for Oracle Database, is an add-on or part of the NetBackup Client (depending on NetBackup version) software. Back on the NetBackup Master Server, you'll have a NetBackup "policy" for the file system backups and another for agent backups. I recommend a separate policy for each database.

On Fri, Dec 17, 2010 at 9:46 AM, Mark Glazerman <Mark.Glazerman AT spartech DOT com> wrote, in part:

... One word of warning though, running the oracle link (on unix located in /usr/openv/netbackup/bin) requires any databases to be down or the link won’t work.

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