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FrancescoRusso's avatar
9 years ago

RMAN crosscheck marks destaged backups as expired

Hi Team,

I'd like to know how best configure NBU and RMAN with destaging STU.

Basically the first backup is done to basic disk and the RMAN retention matches NBU retention (we have daily, weekly, monthy scripts)

To free disk space, this disk STU is configured for destaging, so NBU copies the backup to tapes, but it looks like RMAN is un-aware of this.

In fact, when I run a RMAN crosscheck, RMAN marks as expired the copeis that were on wisk and that now are on tape.

A possible but not viable workaroud could be to duplicate back the backup from tape to disk and rerun a crosscheck.

Are you aware of any other solutons ?

Is there a way to tell RMAN to restore from the copy to tape (after obviously making that a primary copy with NBU)

Thanks.

Francesco.

  • Diging deeper we found out that crosscheck was marking EXPIRED also the backups still on disk and not de-staged to tape.

    I come across this 3d https://www-secure.symantec.com/connect/forums/rman-crosscheck-expired-existing-backuppiece and changed the allocation adding the SEND parameters, this resolved the issue since crosscheck was now corretly talking to NBU and updating RMAN catalog accordingly.

    Shame this tn link is not working

    https://support.symantec.com/en_US/article.HOWTO69221.html

    Thanks all for your imput.

    Francesco

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  • Diging deeper we found out that crosscheck was marking EXPIRED also the backups still on disk and not de-staged to tape.

    I come across this 3d https://www-secure.symantec.com/connect/forums/rman-crosscheck-expired-existing-backuppiece and changed the allocation adding the SEND parameters, this resolved the issue since crosscheck was now corretly talking to NBU and updating RMAN catalog accordingly.

    Shame this tn link is not working

    https://support.symantec.com/en_US/article.HOWTO69221.html

    Thanks all for your imput.

    Francesco

  • Hi Francesco,

    That was an excerpt from the 7.5 Oracle manual.

    I think this is the (updated) one you want:

    Example RAC configuration: Failover name is not available and backup is load balanced, simple script with manual policy failover
     http://www.veritas.com/docs/000079285

    ...and here's the entire guide:

    NetBackup 7.7.1 for Oracle Administrator's Guide
     http://www.veritas.com/docs/000076661

    All of the "Example RAC configurations" can be found starting from page 228.