Introducing Dell™ NetVault™ Backup Plug‑in for Oracle®
Dell NetVault Backup Plug‑in for Oracle – At a Glance
Key benefits
Feature summary
Target Audience
Recommended additional reading
Defining a backup strategy
Defining a strategy – overview
Reviewing the available backup methods
Reviewing the supported Oracle file types
Defining an RMAN backup strategy
Installing and removing the plug-in
Reviewing the RMAN Tablespace/Datafile backup types
Reviewing the Control File backup types
Reviewing the other backup types
Developing a Recovery Catalog backup strategy
Examples of backup sequences
Defining a Backup Destination strategy
Oracle Flashback technology
Prerequisites
Prerequisites for RMAN backups
Configuring the plug-in
Creating the RMAN repository
Registering the target database
Enabling Control File Autobackups
Enabling Flashback Database
Enabling Block Change Tracking
Recommended configuration for a single-instance non-RAC environment
Installing the plug-in
Removing the plug-in
Configuring a default Target Set for RMAN backups
Configuring default settings
Adding a database
Backing up data
Using the Oracle Flashback Database
Editing database information
Setting the database password
Removing a saved password
Removing a database
Viewing database details
Using RMAN Post-Backup Scripts
Language support
Flashback Database – an overview
Viewing Flashback Database status
Flashback Database options
Flashback Database restrictions
Restoring data with the plug-in and Flashback Database
Restoring data
Restoring and recovering data – an overview
Performing User Managed restores
Using advanced User Managed restore procedures
Maintaining the Recovery Catalog
Using the RMAN CLI
Renaming or relocating Control File, Datafile, or individual Archived Log files
Renaming or relocating the Archive Log Directory
Performing RMAN restores
Setting restore options
Using RMAN types of recovery in a non-RAC environment
Setting the Pre-Restore and general Restore Options
Setting recovery options
Setting Block Media Recovery options
Setting Post Recovery options
Setting Destination Details
Setting the Recovery Catalog details
Setting the Clone Database options
Setting Generate RMAN Script options
Finalizing and submitting a job
Recovering individual datafiles/tablespaces to the same server
Recovering Whole Database to same server
Performing disaster recovery with RMAN
Using advanced procedures with RMAN restores
Duplicating a database in a non-RAC environment
Restoring a Duplicate Database to the same server
Restoring a Duplicate Database to an alternate server with the same directory structure
Restoring a Duplicate Database to an alternate server with an alternate directory structure
Performing table-level recovery
CLI-based RMAN backups and restores – an overview
Prerequisites for CLI-based backups and restores
Performing CLI-based backups
Using the Plug-in with Oracle RAC
Additional parameters: the "format" clause
Additional parameters: the "send" and "PARMS" clauses
Querying the NetVault Backup media name
Performing CLI-based restores
Oracle RACs – an overview
Recommended additional reading
Defining a deployment strategy
Licensing
Installing the plug-in in a RAC environment
Configuring the plug-in
Using the Plug-inin a failover cluster environment
Determining the local Oracle SID and Home directory in a RAC environment
Adding a database to the plug-in
Backing up data
Restoring data in a RAC environment
Oracle Server Fail Safe Failover Clustering – an overview
Installing the plug-in
Licensing the plug-in
Configuring the plug-in and adding a database
Backing up data
Restoring data
Using the plug-in with Oracle Data Guard
Oracle Data Guard – an overview
Defining a deployment strategy
Deployment
Troubleshooting
Single-instance to single-instance Data Guard deployment
Multi-instance RAC to single-instance Data Guard deployment
Multi-instance RAC to multi-instance RAC Data Guard deployment
Installing the plug-in in a Data Guard environment
Backing up data
Restoring data
NetVault Backup 10.x service (netvault-pgsql) will not start on Windows
Unable to add a database
Backup fails
Backup job hangs
Restore fails
Glossary
About Dell
Querying the NetVault Backup media name
For RMAN CLI backups performed via the plug-in, you can use SQL*Plus to determine the physical media on which the RMAN backup pieces are stored. The following example shows how to query the media information using Oracle SQL*Plus.
SQL*Plus uses the following format to display the media information:
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Performing CLI-based restores
This form of restore is performed using the RMAN CLI Utility. Through this utility, you can perform restores of backups, regardless of how they were created (that is, either through the plug-in or from the command line). For more information on the RMAN commands, refer to the Oracle Database Backup and Recovery Reference Guide.
 IMPORTANT: Even though this form of restore is initiated locally from a terminal session on the Oracle Database Server, you can monitor job progress from the Jobs Status page in the NetVault Backup WebUI. However, this applies only to data restores from the media contained in devices controlled by the NetVault Backup Server. |
Using the Plug-in with Oracle RAC
Oracle RACs – an overview
Oracle Corporation defines Oracle's Real Application Clusters (RAC) option as “support for the transparent deployment of a single database across a cluster of servers, providing fault tolerance from hardware failures or planned outages. Oracle RAC running on clusters provides Oracle’s highest level of capability in terms of availability, scalability, and low-cost computing. Oracle RAC supports mainstream business applications of all kinds. This includes OLTP, DSS, and Oracle’s unique ability to effectively support mixed OLTP/DSS environments. This also includes popular packaged products such as SAP, PeopleSoft, Siebel, and Oracle E*Business Suite, as well as custom applications.”
Plug‑in for Oracle provides support for a limited number of Oracle versions and platforms in a RAC environment. The installation, configuration, backup, and restore procedures differ in a multi-instance RAC environment. This section of the guide offers specifics on how the plug-in operates in an Oracle RAC environment. It only points out the differences between the setup and usage of the plug-in in a multi-instance RAC environment vs. a single-instance or traditional non-RAC environment.
For a list of supported Oracle versions and platforms in a RAC environment, refer to the Dell NetVault Backup Plug-in Compatibility Guide.