Number of files: 0 and Kilobytes: 0

Has the backup been executed by RMAN, what does the DBA say ?

By querying the recover catalog he/she should be able to tell if RMAN think the backup has been successful.

If you are on NBU 7.6 consider switching to Netbackup Oracle Intelligent Policies - it very easy to use. And no scripting or template are required anymore. Took me less than 10 minutes to configure it first time.

Best Regards

Nicolai

PS: Please also attach a screen shot of the activity monitor show the jobs associated with the RMAN backup.

Have you done all other steps? 

Like running oracle_link in the client?

Oracle type policy on the master?

Please create log folders on Oracle client: bpcd bphdb dbclient.

Where does Windows 8 fit in the picture? 
It is only supported as NBU Client for file-level backup.
Not NBU server or Oracle server.

Backup is executed by RMAN and even Netbackup is able to successfully run backups when the schedule name defined is the default "Default-Application-Backup". This runs the backup as full database backup while we wish to specify Incremental level 0 (for weekly full backup) then Inremental level 1 (for daily backups).

The problem is that schedules with definitions of Incremental 0 and Incremental 1 are "always" reported with Number of files backedup = 0 and 0 kilobytes on the master server.  The "Default-Application-Backup" schedule always returns none-zero values for both number of files and kilobytes but we wish to set up two schedules; one for daily incremental level 1, and one for weekly incremental level 0.

I am a dba and new to Netbackup. I tried "Netbackup Oracle Intelligent Policies" but hit a problem with connecting to the target database. I dropped it since my credidentials were fine but were creating errors with "Netbackup Oracle Intelligent Policies". I'm currently offsite and unable to provide any screen shots.

Kind regards,

Mark

Thanks Marianne. The Netbackup and configuration was done by a specialist from Netbackup so I think that the necessary steps were followed. It is Windows Server 8 and not Windows 8 (please see my text above).

I think it is NBU Server and it supports backups of Oracle. I am an Oracle DBA and very new to Netbackup. Assisting a client with Oracle RMAN backups on Netbackup. All backups are doing fine from the Oracle database side, and communication between the Oracle Recovery Manager catalog and Netbackup seems to be ok.

Thanks,

Mark

I find it very strange that Netbackup throws errors when user defined schedule names are used. Otherwise one would wonder why this posibility (of defining own schedule names) is provided for in the first place, if it cannot be explicitely used.Could it be a bug? (see below).

I also find strange, the nortion of "The 'parent' job with the automatic backup schedule will always show no data." It could be because I am new to Netbackup and things are not working the way Netbackup supposses they should. To satisfy this situation, I am compelled to define a 1:1:1 relationship between an template, a policy, and schedule, in other words, a policy containg only one schedule (including, of course, the "Default-Application-Backup") and one template. Quite labor intensive but I now understand this concept of 0 number of files and kilobytes 0. See image.

I don't see any errors in your screenshot.  That's the way it works in NetBackup - 0 bytes for the parent task and bytes shown for each UBackup subtask.

Try using the 'Create a Policy' Wizard to setup policy including the required schedules.  Takes just a few seconds; not labor-intensive at all.

Will, not an error post; that was just confirmation regarding the 0 number of files and 0 kilobyte. Being new to Netbackup, this puzzled us quite a bit. We thought that our templates and policies/schedules/scripts were not okay until Marianne pointed this to me yesterday, and I am incredibly grateful for that. Strange that this info is not readily available in the forums. 

The job with 0 KB is a control job. Many type of backups in Netbackup consist of a control job and then one or more worker jobs moving data

You may find this blog interesting as a new NBU/dba admin :

http://worldhistory.spaldam.com/index.php?title=How_Oracle_RMAN_interacts_with_NetBackup

Thanks a lot for the link to the blog, very useful information there. By the way, regarding policies and schedules, how efficient/effective is defining only one policy per schedule per client as opposed to a policy having multiple schedules and clients?