Taking backup from ten nos. of Oracle Solaris10 servers

[mrinal_sarkar62]

Hi,

We have the following details:-

MAster /Media Server:-

OS Name : Microsoft=Windows 2008 Standard, Version 6.0.6002 Service Pack 2 Build 6002

NBU 7.5

SCSI tape library. HP Storage works MSL 6000 (LTO3)

Client System :-

OS - Oracle Solaris 10 8/11 [SPARC Ent M5000 server]

Database - Oracle 11g

Currently all the server ar erunning in NBU 7.0 , and we are willing to upgrade to NBU 7.5.

Please, help us for any caution or pre-requisists need to be follow.

Along we are planning for a BMR for the above mentioned servers (Solaris)

Does, we need to follow some best practrice for taking backup of Oracle database on Solaris Sparc from a windows NBU Master/Media server.

Any por adn cors of the above infra.

Thanks.

[SymTerry · Accepted solution]

No cautions off hand. For the upgrade process and requirements, refer to https://sort.symantec.com/netbackup

[Marianne]

I agree - no problem with this kind of setup.

The only requirement is port connectivity and forward and reverse hostname lookup in all directions.
(Add hosts entries if Solaris clients are not on DNS.)

One limitation though is that you cannot push client software from the Windows master/media server.
You will have to upgrade and patch each client individually.

[mrinal_sarkar62]

Hi,

Thanks for your suggestion - to you both

I was checking the compatability and found some notes as below:-

For Solaris.-

1. The qualification is done with VxVM 5.0 and VxVM 5.0 MP3.2. If a Veritas Volume Manager managed disk has the Cross Platform Data Sharing (CDS) enabled and you map that disk to an IDE disk the CDS capability will be lost.

2. The SVM database replicas, disk sets, and volumes are fully recreated and SVM remains active after a BMR restore.

3. The VxVM/VxFS cannot be patched in SRT.

4. The BMR is unable to create SRTs (network and media) using the Solaris 10- Update 8 media that Sun Microsystems recently released. In some cases, the SRT creation works. However, a BMR restore of the Solaris 10-Update 8 client might not complete successfully, and result in an unusable system.

For Linux:-

1. The Support for Linux multidevices is limited, and BMR may not restore some configurations exactly.

2. The root file system is created on a Linux multi-device, when performing a dissimilar disk restore you must map the root file system and retain the original level (for example, if the original level is RAID-1 the mapped file system must also be RAID-1).
If the level is changed, the kernel may panic and the system may not recover.

Please, help me to understand the above notes.

Thanks

[Marianne]

Please tell us more about volume management software used in your environment.

Solaris:
Just default Solaris disk partition/slices?
SVM (Solaris Volume Manager) ?
VxVM (Symantec/Veritas Storage Foundation) ?

Linux:
Do you have multidevices in your environment? 
If so, my understanding of the above note is  that the disk layout of the server used for BMR restore must match the original machine.