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laughingman1's avatar
10 years ago

Oracle RAC backup

Hi,

I'm Oracle DBA which tries to prepare policies and scripts for NBU (7.6) to backup 2 node Oracle RAC databases. In documentation http://spaldam.com/NetBackup7xPDFs/NetBackup_AdminGuide_Oracle.pdf in Appendix B I find nice description for different scenarios in that matter. But unfortunatly I don't understand few things and I want to ask for some clarification for "The NetBackup master server configuration must allow the physical host names access to all of the backup images" (page 204)

My master server is on Windows and in "C:\Program Files\Veritas\NetBackup\db" there is no "altnames" folder. Should I create that folder and create inside file "hostname1" ... eg. "dbserver1"?

I know difference between hostname, and vipname in Oracle RAC, but I don't understand what Veritas has in mind by "failover_vipname". Can anyone clarify for me what is "failover_vipname" (Is this SCAN)? What address should I put in my dbserver1 file?

Which client (or clients) should I add in my policy definition?

Regards