12-18-2009 12:32 PM
We are running NetBackup 6.5.3 on RHEL4.7.
For a variety of reasons, we need to run our RMAN backups as user-directed - basically due to the number of databases we run and the desire to use a common backup script.
First question - Am I correct that the schedule referenced by the RMAN script must be an application type schedule? I tried referencing an automatic schedule, but NetBackup reports an invalid schedule type (error #241).
Second question - The RMAN scripts generate multiple streams from multiple hosts, each of which shows up in NetBackup as its own job - each has its own jobid, etc. Is there any way to tie these together from NetBackup's perspective? I know that for automatic schedules, each stream shows up as a child job, and they can be tied together by the parent job (which is why I was trying to run the auto schedule). Is there any easy way to do this for? I can get it done by working with the DBAs to make sure the filelist for each set of jobs is unique in some way, script the bpflist, and get the jobs grouped that way, but I was wondering (hoping) that NetBackup would help me out with this...
I need to be able to group the jobs together so I can manage duplication and expiration - we have some requirements that require some manual intervention.
Any help is appreciated.
Bill
12-20-2009 10:12 AM
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