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tarmizi's avatar
tarmizi
Level 5
7 years ago

Netbackup schedule not pointing to the right SLP

Hi all,

I got a question here regarding the backup schedule and SLP. There is a backup policy that we created long time ago with multiple schedules. The Oracle RMAN backup policy got daily, weekly, monthly and yearly schedule. Each of the schedule have their own storage location/SLP which daily SLP, weekly SLP, monthly SLP and yearly SLP respectively.

In the daily SLP having:

i) primary job: backup (to advance disk) Expire after copy

 ii)secondary job : deduplication (from advance disk to dedupe disk) 3 days

  iii)third job : deduplication (to tape) 2 weeks

In the weekly SLP having:

i) primary job: backup (to advance disk) Expire after copy

 ii)secondary job : deduplication (from advance disk to dedupe disk) 3 days

  iii)third job : deduplication (to tape) 1 month

In the monthly SLP having:

i) primary job: backup (to advance disk) Expire after copy

 ii)secondary job : deduplication (from advance disk to dedupe disk) 3 days

  iii)third job : deduplication (to tape) 7 years

In the yearly SLP having:

i) primary job: backup (to advance disk) Expire after copy

 ii)secondary job : deduplication (from advance disk to dedupe disk) 3 days

  iii)third job : deduplication (to tape) infinity

We have no issue with daily schedule but the other schedule did not point to their SLP. The result, weekly, monthly and yearly backup schedule only keep the retention of 3 days on MSDP disk and 2 weeks on tape.They point to the daily SLP which is not meet the weekly, monthy and yearly retention requirement. Please let me know any additional information needed if necessary.

Thank you

7.7
windows server 2012
  • Marianne's avatar
    Marianne
    Level 6
    7 years ago

    Are you using Oracle Intelligent Policies or legacy script-based policies?

    If legacy scripts, bear in mind that the job actually uses the Default-Application schedule. 
    The Automatic schedules is only used to start the backups. 
    Each Automatic schedule needs a different Default-Application schedule where the relevant SLP is selected.

    You need to modify scripts and add NB_ORA_POLICY and NB_ORA_SCHED variables. 

    This TN describes what you are experiencing: 
    https://www.veritas.com/support/en_US/article.000082227

    If you are using Intelligent Policies and the relevant SLP is selected in each schedule, this should not happen.

    • tarmizi's avatar
      tarmizi
      Level 5
      7 years ago

      Hi Marianne,

      We are using legacy script-based policies. We willl look on the link provided...Thanks