NetBackup™ for Oracle Administrator's Guide
- Introduction
- NetBackup for Oracle QuickStart
- Installing NetBackup for Oracle
- About linking Oracle RMAN with NetBackup for UNIX
- Configuring RBAC for the Oracle administrator
- Managing Oracle instances and databases
- Managing Oracle credentials
- Configuring Oracle policies
- Preparing for NetBackup for Oracle configuration
- About Oracle Intelligent Policies (OIP)
- About script-based Oracle policies
- Managing Oracle RAC
- Performing backups and restores of Oracle
- About NetBackup for Oracle backups
- Managing expired backup images
- About NetBackup for Oracle restores
- Using NetBackup for Oracle in a Windows Server Failover Cluster (WSFC)
- Oracle cloning
- NetBackup Copilot for Oracle
- Configuring an OIP using universal shares (Oracle Copilot)
- Oracle Copilot with instant access
- Prerequisites when you configure an instant access Oracle database
- NetBackup for Oracle with Snapshot Client
- About NetBackup for Oracle with Snapshot Client
- How NetBackup for Oracle with Snapshot Client works
- About configuring Snapshot Client with NetBackup for Oracle
- Restoring NetBackup for Oracle from a snapshot backup
- About configuring NetBackup for Oracle block-level incremental backups on UNIX
- About Snapshot Client effects
- About Oracle support for Replication Director
- NetBackup Dedupe Direct for Oracle
- Using NetBackup Dedupe Direct for Oracle plug-in
- Other Oracle configuration
- Troubleshooting
- Troubleshooting RMAN backup or restore errors
- Appendix A. Deduplication best practices
- Appendix B. Snapshot Client support of SFRAC
- Appendix C. Script-based Block-Level Incremental (BLI) Backups without RMAN on UNIX and Linux systems
- Verifying installation requirements for BLI backups without RMAN
- Creating NetBackup policies for script-based BLI backup
- Creating notify scripts for BLI backups
- Performing backups and restores
- About troubleshooting backup or restore errors
- Appendix D. XML Archiver
- NetBackup for Oracle XML export and XML import
- About XML export shell scripts
- Performing an XML export archive
- Restoring an XML export archive
- Troubleshooting XML export or XML import errors
- Appendix E. Register authorized locations
About linking Oracle RMAN with NetBackup for UNIX
Before writing to a storage unit, link the Oracle database server software with the NetBackup API library installed by NetBackup for Oracle. Oracle uses this library when it needs to write to or read from the devices that NetBackup media manager supports.
To link your Oracle software with the NetBackup API library, use one of the following methods:
(Recommended) Use the SBT_LIBRARY parameter in the PARMS section of the allocate channel in the RMAN script. In the run block of the RMAN script, modify the ALLOCATE statement so that the SBT_LIBRARY parameter points to the NetBackup API library. For example:
ALLOCATE CHANNEL CH00 TYPE 'SBT_TAPE' PARMS 'SBT_LIBRARY= /usr/openv/netbackup/bin/libobk.so64.1';
Use the linking script that NetBackup provides.
Create the links manually.
The linking process differs depending on your hardware platform, your Oracle database server release level, and your OS level. This topic does not address all the supported combinations, but it specifies OS level differences.
The default location for the NetBackup API library is /usr/openv/netbackup/bin. The name of the NetBackup API library differs depending on your platform.
Table: NetBackup API libraries lists the library names for the supported platforms.
Table: NetBackup API libraries
Platform | Oracle | Library name |
---|---|---|
AIX | 64-bit | libobk.a64 |
HP Itanium | 64-bit | libobk.so |
Linux x86 | 64-bit | libobk.so64 |
IBM pSeries | 64-bit | libobk.so |
IBM zSeries | 64-bit | libobk.so |
Solaris (SPARC) | 64-bit | libobk.so.64.1 |
Solaris (x86) | 64-bit | libobk.so.1 |