Protecting Oracle Databases with HCC Using Veritas NetBackup
As organizations continue to adopt Oracle Hybrid Columnar Compression (HCC) to achieve substantial data reduction and performance optimization for data warehousing workloads, it becomes increasingly critical to ensure robust protection strategies for these databases. Veritas NetBackup delivers comprehensive support for Oracle databases leveraging HCC, seamlessly integrating with Oracle Recovery Manager (RMAN) to enable high-performance, policy-driven backups that maintain data integrity across both HCC-enabled and non-HCC storage environments. NetBackup leverages RMAN’s block-level capabilities to perform efficient full and incremental backups of Oracle databases, including those utilizing HCC on Oracle-engineered systems like Exadata and ZFS Storage Appliances. Through tight RMAN integration, NetBackup preserves the compression format during backup, minimizing storage consumption and backup windows while supporting deduplication for further optimization. This allows database administrators to maintain their HCC benefits even in backup and recovery workflows, while centralizing control and reporting through NetBackup’s interface. In recovery scenarios, NetBackup supports full flexibility whether restoring to an HCC-capable system or to a non-HCC environment. When recovering to an HCC-compatible platform, the compressed data remains usable in its native format, preserving both performance and storage efficiency. If recovery is directed to a non-HCC destination—such as traditional file systems or third-party storage—the restore process completes successfully, but the data must be uncompressed before it can be accessed. Full guidance on these options is available in Oracle’s official documentation on restoring HCC tables. NetBackup ensures that backup and recovery operations remain consistent and reliable across both HCC and non-HCC environments.NetBackup 11 is Here
The latest release of Cohesity NetBackup 11.0 includes quantum-proof encryption, enhances industry-first user behavior monitoring and risk analysis, and adds protection for more PaaS workloads. Click here to learn more about the details of this release from Cohesity VP of Product Management, TimBurlowski. Click here to read the press release. See what's new in NetBackup 11. Have questions or thoughts? Drop them in the comments!
Oracle Backup - Database must not contain any data files that are in backup mode.
Dear online team, Since upgrading from NetBackup 9.1 to NetBackup 10.4 we I have errors with Oracle backups if two jobs are run simultaneously. Let's say large database that needs 10 hours for the FULL backup to complete. During the time this backup is running, another Archive Log backup starts. (we have archive log backups running every half hour) This Archive Log backup fails with following error that was not the case previously: (5457) Database must not contain any data files that are in backup mode. This was not the case before and you could run as many jobs as you want at the same time.. This only happens to container databases that has pluggable databases inside the container. CDBs Has anyone experienced anything similar? Any help would be really appreciated. I even updated to NetBackup 10.5 but issue still remains..
Error: Detected an attempt to install incorrect platform and/or operating system and version client binaries
Guys, How do I install Netbackup 7.6.1 on one of our RHEL servers? ##################################################### [root@ NetBackup_7.6.1_CLIENTS2]# ./install Symantec Installation Script Copyright 1993 - 2014 Symantec Corporation, All Rights Reserved. Installing NetBackup Client Software Please review the SYMANTEC SOFTWARE LICENSE AGREEMENT located on the installation media before proceeding. The agreement includes details on the NetBackup Product Improvement Program. For NetBackup installation and upgrade information specific to your platform and to find out if your installed EEBs or hot fixes are contained in this release, check out the Symantec Operations Readiness Tools (SORT) Installation and Upgrade Checklist and Hot fix and EEB Release Auditor, respectively, at https://sort.symantec.com/netbackup. Do you wish to continue? [y,n] (y) y ERROR: Detected an attempt to install incorrect platform and/or operating system and version client binaries on File /usr/openv/tmp/install_trace.27255 contains a trace of this install. That file can be deleted after you are sure the install was successful. ############################################################### uname -a Linux 2.6.32-573.3.1.el6.x86_64 #1 SMP Mon Aug 10 09:44:54 EDT 2015 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux This is done using the Netbackup_7.6.1_CLIENTS2 installer. If I use the CLIENTS1 installer, I receive this message: ERROR: NetBackup client software for the Linux platform is not on this media. I guess I am confused as to which installer will work with 64bit RHEL? Can you all please advise? Thanks in advance.PostgreSQL - backup of WAL files
Dear community, I need some help. I have setup one datastore backup policy that runs Application backup of PostgreSQL database. Now I am looking in how to manage WAL backups. I need the logs backed up at least once an hour so that I can restore any hour of the day. Meaning hour back if needed. (Oracle database backups have intelligent policies to manage backup of logs, but this is not the case for PostgreSQL) I have thought of creating another Standard policy that will run every hour to backup specific directory where all WAL files will be located. I could use crontab to schedule hourly job that runs bparchive command and set it to automatically delete files that have been backed up. However, this becomes very difficult to manage on NetBackup and client side, if you plan to have around 500 databases in the future. Protection plan is a no-go, as it is not very useful and does not allow for customization of SLPs. (meaning you will end up using a lot of disk backup storage) Has anyone found good solution for backing up PostgreSQL databases? Thank you for your assistance in this. Nerm
Netbackup self service compatiblity with Master server hosted over Flex appliance
Hello, I am trying to add NetBackup master server hosted over Flex appliance in Netbackup self service but after adding the Master server check connectivity option not working. As per Netbackup self service configuration guide prereqesties are : The user account that NetBackup Self Service uses to logon to SSH on the master server needs sudo configuration: ■ The user account should not use requiretty. ■ The user account should not require a sudo password. ■ With sudo, the user account should run all commands in /usr/openv/netbackup/bin and /usr/openv/netbackup/bin/admincmd. So i created new user on Netbackup master server and give superuser rights to user. so that user can execute all netbackup commands without sudo.But still check connectivity option not working. Is there any sperate procedure to add Netbackup master server (hosted on Flex appliance) in Netbackup self service ? In Netbackup self service documentation and Flex appliance documentation no procedure found.
Netbackup Installation failing Error - ERROR: NetBackup Database Creation Failed!
Netbackup Installation failing Error - ERROR: NetBackup Database Creation Failed! Version: NetBackup_10.3.0.1_Win 06:49:43.985 [4552.4492] <4> NBDBsystem: Command exited with status: 0 06:49:43.985 [4552.4492] <4> create_nbdb_tablespace_directory: The NetBackup database tablespace directory creation complete [C:\Program Files\Veritas\NetBackupDB\data\nbdb]. 06:49:43.985 [4552.4492] <16> DbConnection::Execute: (6848.3) Execute error: SQL - native=<1> sqlerror=<ERROR: directory "C:/Program Files/Veritas/NetBackupDB/data/nbdb/PG_14_202107181" already in use as a tablespace; Error while executing the query> sqlstate=<55006> retval=<2007143> nbdberror=<DB_ERROR_SQLUnknown(2007143)> 06:49:43.985 [4552.4492] <2> DbConnection::Execute: (6848.3) stmt=<CREATE TABLESPACE NBDB OWNER postgres LOCATION 'C:\Program Files\Veritas\NetBackupDB\data\nbdb'> 06:49:43.985 [4552.4492] <16> create_postgres_nbdb_tbspaces: Unable to execute sql statement "CREATE TABLESPACE NBDB OWNER postgres LOCATION 'C:\Program Files\Veritas\NetBackupDB\data\nbdb'", error 2007143 06:49:43.985 [4552.4492] <4> CreatePostgresDatabase: Exiting with rc = 29 06:49:43.985 [4552.4492] <16> create_pgnbdb: Failed to created PostgreSQL NBDB database.
