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NetBackup™ for Oracle Administrator's Guide
Last Published:
2025-03-18
Product(s):
NetBackup & Alta Data Protection (11.0)
- Introduction
- Installing NetBackup for Oracle
- Planning the installation of NetBackup for Oracle
- Verifying the operating system and platform compatibility
- License for NetBackup for Oracle
- NetBackup server and client requirements for NetBackup for Oracle
- Requirements for using NetBackup for Oracle in a NetBackup cluster
- About linking Oracle RMAN with NetBackup for UNIX
- Configuring RBAC for the Oracle administrator
- Managing Oracle discovery and databases
- About Oracle discovery
- Managing Oracle databases
- View and edit Oracle database details
- Associate an RMAN catalog with a database
- Remove an RMAN catalog from a database
- Activate or deactivate a database
- Remove a database or pluggable database
- Manually add a database
- Manually add an Oracle instance
- Edit Oracle instance details
- Copy a RAC instance
- Remove an Oracle instance
- Load balance Oracle RAC instances
- Managing RMAN catalogs
- Manage a Data Guard
- Managing Oracle credentials
- About Oracle credentials
- Oracle credential types in the NetBackup Credential management
- Add a credential for an Oracle database or RMAN catalog
- View the credential name that is applied to an asset
- Edit or delete a named credential
- Register credentials for an Oracle database or RMAN catalog
- Manually validate database credentials
- Configure an Oracle Wallet with RAC within NetBackup
- Configuring Oracle policies
- Preparing for NetBackup for Oracle configuration
- About Oracle Intelligent Policies (OIP)
- Create an Oracle Intelligent Policy (OIP)
- Oracle database upgrade effect on Oracle Intelligent Policies
- Configuring NetBackup for Oracle automatic backup schedules
- About NetBackup for Oracle schedule properties using Oracle Intelligent Policy
- Oracle Intelligent Policy - Storage and Retention
- About Oracle Intelligent Policy primary server behavior
- Instances and databases tab
- Backup selections tab
- Oracle tab
- Create a Data Guard policy
- Create bpstart_notify and bpend_notify scripts for an Oracle Intelligent Policy (OIP)
- Logging the RMAN input and output on a client
- About script-based Oracle policies
- Adding a new script-based Oracle policy
- About policy attributes
- Schedule properties for Oracle script-based policies
- Script-based policy - Storage and Retention
- Add clients to a policy
- About adding backup selections to an Oracle policy
- About configuring the run-time environment
- About creating shell scripts
- Configuring the logon account for the NetBackup Client Service for NetBackup for Oracle
- Testing configuration settings for NetBackup for Oracle
- Performing backups and restores of Oracle
- Overview of using NetBackup for Oracle
- Maintaining the RMAN repository
- Querying the RMAN repository
- About NetBackup for Oracle backups
- Browsing backups using the bplist command
- 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
- About Oracle Copilot
- Configuring an OIP using a share on the NetBackup appliance (Oracle Copilot)
- Creating an instant recovery point from an Oracle Copilot image (NetBackup Appliance share)
- Deleting an instant recovery point for Oracle Copilot instant recovery
- Configuring an OIP using universal shares (Oracle Copilot)
- Managing an instant access mount from an Oracle Copilot universal share image
- Cleaning up the Oracle Copilot share after point in time restore of database
- Single-step restore to ASM storage from an Oracle Copilot recovery point or instant access mount
- About restoring from a data file copy to ASM storage using RMAN
- Oracle Copilot with instant access
- Prerequisites when you configure an instant access Oracle database
- Things to consider before you configure an instant access mount point
- Backing up an Oracle database using Oracle Copilot policy with a universal share
- Configure an instant access mount
- View the livemount details of an instant access mount
- Configuring Auto Image Replication for Oracle instant access backups
- Delete an instant access mount
- NetBackup for Oracle terms
- Frequently asked questions
- NetBackup for Oracle with Snapshot Client
- About NetBackup for Oracle with Snapshot Client
- How NetBackup for Oracle with Snapshot Client works
- About the NetBackup for Oracle backup and restore operations
- Database objects supported by advanced backup methods
- About NetBackup multistreaming
- RMAN multiple channels
- Restoring data files to a new location
- Redirecting a restore to a different client
- Symbolic links and raw data files (UNIX)
- Quick I/O data files (UNIX)
- RMAN incremental backups
- Proxy backup examples
- 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
- About NetBackup Dedupe Direct for Oracle plug-in
- Verifying the operating system and platform compatibility
- Before you install NetBackup Dedupe Direct for Oracle plug-in
- Installing NetBackup Dedupe Direct for Oracle plug-in on the Oracle database server
- Using the NetBackup Dedupe Direct for Oracle plug-in
- Configuring the NetBackup Dedupe Direct for Oracle plug-in
- NetBackup Dedupe Direct for Oracle rman.cfg file parameters
- Configuring External Certificate Authority (ECA)
- ECA msdp_app.cfg file parameters
- Configuring Oracle RAC
- Disabling Oracle stream handler
- Performing the RMAN backup directly to MSDP server
- Performing the RMAN restore directly from the MSDP storage server
- Creating an SLP to import the Oracle backups to NetBackup on Flex WORM
- Uninstalling the NetBackup Dedupe Direct for Oracle plug-in
- Troubleshooting
- About troubleshooting NetBackup for Oracle
- About NetBackup for Oracle troubleshooting steps
- NetBackup debug logs and reports
- Enabling the debug logs manually (Windows) (NetBackup for Oracle)
- Enabling the debug logs manually (UNIX) (NetBackup for Oracle)
- About the NetBackup for Oracle log files
- Setting the debug level on a Windows client
- Setting the debug level on a UNIX client
- About RMAN utility logs
- Troubleshooting RMAN backup or restore errors
- Troubleshooting NetBackup for Oracle with Snapshot Client
- Error: Unable to re-create online log
- Minimizing time-out failures on large database restores
- Minimizing the loading and unloading of tapes for database backups
- Enabling the debug logs manually for NetBackup Dedupe Direct for Oracle plug-in
- Appendix A. Deduplication best practices
- Optimizing and deduplicating stream-based and proxy copy Oracle backups
- Oracle stream handler
- Configuring a stream-based Oracle backup
- Example RMAN script for a stream-based backup
- Editing the RMAN script and configuring NetBackup for Oracle for a proxy copy backup
- Example RMAN script for a proxy copy backup
- Appendix B. Snapshot Client support of SFRAC
- Appendix C. Script-based Block-Level Incremental (BLI) Backups without RMAN on UNIX and Linux systems
- About script-based Block-Level Incremental (BLI) Backups without RMAN
- About BLI backup and restore operations
- Verifying installation requirements for BLI backups without RMAN
- Creating NetBackup policies for script-based BLI backup
- Number of policies required for BLI backup
- About BLI policy attributes
- About the BLI client list
- Backup selections list for BLI backups
- About schedules for BLI backup policies
- Example Oracle BLI backup policy
- Setting the Maximum jobs per client global attribute
- About BLI backup methods
- 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 the environment variables set by a user in the XML export parameter file
- About XML export shell scripts
- Performing an XML export archive
- Browsing XML export archives using bporaimp parameters
- Browsing XML export archives using bplist
- Restoring an XML export archive
- Troubleshooting XML export or XML import errors
- Additional XML export and import logs
- Appendix E. Register authorized locations
Configure an Oracle Wallet with RAC within NetBackup
The configuration and setup of the Oracle Wallet in NetBackup is a two-step process. You add descriptors first, then you register the wallet. In the cases of Oracle RAC, your descriptors must enumerate the list of RAC instances that comprise your RAC cluster.
NetBackup Oracle Wallet prerequisites:
The Oracle wallet location must be accessible from all nodes of the RAC cluster.
Using a shared location is encouraged for maintainability.
An example storage location can be: An Oracle ACFS file system that is mounted on each node or an NFS share accessible to each node. The mount point of the shared location must be the same on each node.
If the wallet is not in a shared location, it must be in an identically duplicate location on each node of the RAC cluster. The full contents of the wallet must also be duplicated on each node of the RAC cluster.
To configure Oracle Wallet with RAC in NetBackup
- Retrieve the RAC connect descriptors for all instances in the RAC database. Place the list of connect descriptors in a text file for easy access for step 2. Use one of the following methods:
Get RAC connect descriptors from the NetBackup web UI:
On the left, click Workloads > Oracle and then click Databases.
Click on the RAC database.
On the Instances tab, click Show Oracle Wallet connect descriptors.
Click Copy to copy a descriptor.
Manually create the RAC connect descriptors:
If you don't have this information, use the NetBackup web UI to retrieve it. You need to obtain the scan name, service name, and port number for the given RAC database. If the RAC instances for the RAC database are not known, collect the list of instance names.
For each instance of a RAC, you must insert this information to create a connect descriptor. Insert the scan name, service name, and port number (from RAC database), as well as the instance name (from RAC instance) into the following example:
(DESCRIPTION=(ADDRESS=(PROTOCOL=TCP) (HOST=<INSERT SCAN NAME>)(PORT=<INSERT PORT NUMBER>)) (CONNECT_DATA=(SERVER=DEDICATED)(SERVICE_NAME=<INSERT SERVICE NAME>) (INSTANCE_NAME=<INSERT INSTANCE NAME>)))
- Add the connect descriptors with the Oracle
MKSTOREutility. The descriptors are case-sensitive and must match exactly to what is in NetBackup.mkstore -wrl /db/orac183/wallet/ -CreateCredential '(DESCRIPTION=(ADDRESS=(PROTOCOL=TCP)(HOST=exampleScanName.domain.com) (PORT=1521))(CONNECT_DATA=(SERVER=DEDICATED) (SERVICE_NAME=orac183.domain.com)(INSTANCE_NAME=orac1831)))' testUser testPassword
mkstore -wrl /db/orac183/wallet/ -CreateCredential '(DESCRIPTION=(ADDRESS=(PROTOCOL=TCP)(HOST=exampleScanName.domain.com) (PORT=1521))(CONNECT_DATA=(SERVER=DEDICATED) (SERVICE_NAME=orac183.domain.com)(INSTANCE_NAME=orac1832)))' testUser testPassword
- In the NetBackup web UI, register the RAC with the credential that is configured for Oracle Wallet.
See Add a credential for an Oracle database or RMAN catalog.
- (Optional) If you get an error when you attempt to register the RAC, review the error message. Compare the descriptors in the error message with what you generated in step 1 and what you inserted into your Oracle Wallet.