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
How NetBackup for Oracle with Snapshot Client works
NetBackup users or schedules start database backups or restores. The Oracle Intelligent Policy automatically generates an RMAN script. The script-based policy uses a shell script in the backup selections list of the Oracle policy. The shell script specifies backup or restore commands for the Oracle Recovery Manager (RMAN) to use when you perform the backup or restore on the client.
The RMAN backup proxy command initiates a proxy copy backup of the specified objects. The objects that can be backed up using the proxy copy functionality depend on the Oracle version. RMAN translates the objects into the physical file names and provides a list of file names to NetBackup for Oracle.
The agent checks that the policy it uses for the backup is configured with the appropriate Snapshot Client attributes. The agent then initiates file-based backups of the Oracle files and uses the NetBackup Snapshot Client interface to perform the data movement.
When Oracle performs proxy copy backups, it puts the data files being backed up into backup mode. NetBackup then creates a snapshot of the files. After the snapshot has been created, the NetBackup for Oracle agent signals back to Oracle to take the data files out of backup mode. The data files being backed up are in backup mode only for the period of time necessary to capture a snapshot of the data.
More Information
Database objects supported by advanced backup methods
About the NetBackup for Oracle backup and restore operations
About configuring Snapshot Client with NetBackup for Oracle
Database objects supported by advanced backup methods
About NetBackup multistreaming
Restoring data files to a new location
Redirecting a restore to a different client