Credential Validation Failed (Oracle RAC)
Hi everyone, My customer has 2 nodes Oracle Database (RAC) and I need to integrate that database with NetBackup 11 to backup the database. The connection between NetBackup and Oracle DB nodes is totally fine. I have already installed NetBackup Client on one node. My problem is that I discovered the database successfully, but when I added a credential for it (using Oracle credential), though the credential still works fine locally and has all the necessary privileges, the validation is still failed. Did I do something wrong or Did I miss any configuration steps ? What should I do next to fix this problem ?
Oracle RMAN backup fails
Hi everyone. I’m having a small issue with Oracle RMAN. When the archivelog backup runs (using the default application backup policy), RMAN throws an error at the end, but NetBackup reports the backup as successful. Has anyone run into this before? NetBackup 10.1 — RMAN log is attached. released channel: ch00 RMAN-00571: =========================================================== RMAN-00569: =============== ERROR MESSAGE STACK FOLLOWS =============== RMAN-00571: =========================================================== RMAN-03009: failure of backup command on ch00 channel at 12/08/2025 16:01:56 ORA-19509: failed to delete sequential file, handle="bk4ar48v_150900_1_1", parms="" ORA-19511: non RMAN, but media manager or vendor specific failure, error text: Failed to remove, bk4ar48v_150900_1_1, from image catalog. ORA-19513: failed to identify sequential file ORA-27206: requested file not found in media management catalog ORA-27027: sbtremove2 returned error
Dedupe direct for oracle not working
Hi everyone, I’m trying to back up an Oracle 19c database using the Deduplication Direct for Oracle plug-in, but I can’t get it to work. - I followed the documentation step by step and also did extensive troubleshooting with RMAN, but nothing has helped. - It looks like RMAN cannot load the Deduplication Direct library and fails to initialize the media manager library. - The error I get is: ORA-27211: unable to locate media manager library - I enabled logging in the plug-in configuration, but no logs are being generated. Environment details: - NetBackup 10.2.1 on rhel 9 - Oracle 19c (single node) on rhel 7.9 Has anyone run into this issue before, or can suggest what I might be missing?
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..
NetBackup Enhancements for Oracle VLDBs (Very Large Databases)
In this day and age, data tends to only increase in size. For our customers with ever-growing Oracle databases (DB), timely backups and restores are a challenge. We have many existing features within NetBackup to protect Oracle, and now we have added a solution for Oracle Very Large DBs (VLDB). Figure 1. Oracle policy option to select multiple MSDP storage units The designation of “Very Large” is arbitrary, but a widely accepted definition is a database that is too large for the data protection to succeed in the desired time window. Oracle DB protection struggles are focused on completing backups faster, but the ability to restore within the expected time frame is often ignored, resulting in missed Restore Time Objectives (RTOs). This new Oracle policy option allows segmenting the Oracle backup across multiple NetBackup MSDPs (Media Server Deduplication Pools) storage units with the ability to choose which storage units are used (see Figure 1). For a single stream, this results in a backup image that is in the catalog as a single image, with the image’s fragments tracked in the catalog on each storage unit selected. A single backupid makes tracking and reporting streamlined. You can also increase the number of parallel streams. Allowing simultaneous writes to multiple disk pools increases the efficiency of the streaming backup. The number of storage units to use for the best results will vary from one database to the next. Further, take advantage of multiple parallel streams to further tune your Oracle backup. Storage units are linked to disk pools, and the most effective use of this option will leverage multiple storage units that are linked to multiple unique disk pools hosted on different media servers. This solution also works with where the nodes of a single Flex Scale are managed independently and only one storage unit is presented to NetBackup. There will be affinity for the database backup to write the same file, or piece, of the database backup to the same MSDP storage unit, so do not change this configuration often. Some of the considerations will be: Number of nodes in a RAC (Real Application Cluster), Number of instances, Number of parallel streams As more parallel streams and storage units are configured for the policy, the gain in performance is geometric improvements in the backup times. This must be aligned to your backup and restore goals and your existing infrastructure to avoid creating bottlenecks in the performance. To meet the desired goals, there may be a need to add more MSDP pools rather than having a few large pools each with a single node. Additionally, consider more load balancing media servers to also share data movement responsibilities. This solution can also use Storage Lifecycle Policies (SLPs) as multiple storage targets, enabling you to maintain your current business continuity and DR (Disaster Recovery) plans for your Oracle data. When selecting multiple storage units, you would select a different SLP (Service Lifecycle Policy) for each destination. If the desired SLP is not shown, confirm that it is using supported MSDP storage units. It is key that the SLPs for this use-case all be designed and configured with the same goals, including retention levels, and different source and target storage units. For example, if splitting the Oracle backup across 2 SLPs, each SLP would use a different backup storage unit, and a different secondary operation storage unit. In the case of replications (AIR (Auto Image Replication)), the replication relationship between the on-prem MSDP and the target MSDP each needs to be under the same target primary server (see Figure 2). It is possible to replicate many-to-one, but this would remove the benefit of segmenting the image across multiple disk pools. If the replication targets of only a portion of the database went to a different NB domain or were not retained for the same period, the image would not be complete and a restore would not be possible. Figure 2. SLP configuration requirement for multiple MSDP storage units with replication When the need for a restore arises, NetBackup takes advantage of multiple sources to read and stream back to the destination, with each disk pool reading a piece of the database image simultaneously. This results in a faster restore time for a large amount of data. The Disk Pool’s Maximum I/O streams setting will need to be adjusted according to the peak performance of the disks and the potential number of restore and backup streams. This setting can be changed dynamically, without a restart of services, to meet changing needs. Consider, also, the impact of load balancing media servers in such a configuration. If all media servers have credentials to all storage servers, they can potentially perform the requested read action during a replication or restore operation. In circumstances where some media servers are already busy doing other jobs, such as backups, NetBackup will choose the next-least-busy media server to perform the requested action. For most situations, it will be best to configure only the media servers needed for these repetitive actions to have access to the disk pools in-use. Plan disk pool deployment to maximize the throughput from the Oracle clients to multiple media servers and their NetBackup deduplication volumes. Take advantage of this new parallelism to improve throughput performance for both your backup and recovery operations for your Very Large Oracle databases to meet your strict RTOs.Oracle RMAN backup status 13, timer expired
Hi all Sometimes, but not regularly, we experience one of our large Oracle backup ending with status 13. Archive logs is always successful, so is the FULLs. This applies to our diffs. We have a few thousand jobs that backup to a 5330HA cluster. Our Oracle backups runs NBU 8.1.2 on RHEL 7. Mediaserver is Appliance 3.1.2, with latest MSDP EEB bundle. Here is from Job Details of Parent job: 16.mar.2020 03:39:20 - Info bphdb (pid=120725) INF - input datafile file number=00029 name=+DATA1/PXCDBL_DBM/82CDF1F23C1993F2E053C443F80AE973/DATAFILE/datex_lob.2830.1001260637 16.mar.2020 03:39:20 - Info bphdb (pid=120725) INF - input datafile file number=00024 name=+DATA1/PXCDBL_DBM/82CDF1F23C1993F2E053C443F80AE973/DATAFILE/system.2824.1001259231 16.mar.2020 03:39:21 - Info bphdb (pid=120725) INF - input datafile file number=00027 name=+DATA1/PXCDBL_DBM/82CDF1F23C1993F2E053C443F80AE973/DATAFILE/users.2828.1001259241 16.mar.2020 07:25:50 - Info bphdb (pid=120725) INF - released channel: ch00 16.mar.2020 07:25:50 - Info bphdb (pid=120725) INF - released channel: ch01 16.mar.2020 07:25:50 - Info bphdb (pid=120725) INF - RMAN-00571: =========================================================== 16.mar.2020 07:25:50 - Info bphdb (pid=120725) INF - RMAN-00569: =============== ERROR MESSAGE STACK FOLLOWS =============== 16.mar.2020 07:25:50 - Info bphdb (pid=120725) INF - RMAN-00571: =========================================================== 16.mar.2020 07:25:50 - Info bphdb (pid=120725) INF - RMAN-03009: failure of backup command on ch00 channel at 03/16/2020 07:25:33 16.mar.2020 07:25:50 - Info bphdb (pid=120725) INF - ORA-27192: skgfcls: sbtclose2 returned error - failed to close file 16.mar.2020 07:25:50 - Info bphdb (pid=120725) INF - ORA-19511: non RMAN, but media manager or vendor specific failure, error text: 16.mar.2020 07:25:50 - Info bphdb (pid=120725) INF - Failed to process backup file <bk_dPXCDBL_un2ur6tn8_s29410_p1_t1035171560> 16.mar.2020 07:25:50 - Info bphdb (pid=120725) INF - ORA-19502: write error on file "bk_dPXCDBL_un2ur6tn8_s29410_p1_t1035171560", block number 1 (block size=8192) 16.mar.2020 07:25:50 - Info bphdb (pid=120725) INF - ORA-27030: skgfwrt: sbtwrite2 returned error 16.mar.2020 07:25:50 - Info bphdb (pid=120725) INF - ORA-19511: non RMAN, but media manage 16.mar.2020 07:25:50 - Info bphdb (pid=120725) INF - Recovery Manager complete. 16.mar.2020 07:25:55 - Info bphdb (pid=120725) INF - End of Recovery Manager output. 16.mar.2020 07:25:55 - Info bphdb (pid=120725) INF - End Oracle Recovery Manager. Here is from job details of the failing job: 16.mar.2020 03:39:35 - Info bptm (pid=233514) start backup 16.mar.2020 03:40:38 - Info bptm (pid=233514) backup child process is pid 235121 16.mar.2020 03:40:38 - begin writing 16.mar.2020 06:40:39 - Error bpbrm (pid=233505) socket read failed: errno = 62 - Timer expired 16.mar.2020 06:40:41 - Error bptm (pid=233514) media manager terminated by parent process Obviousley there is a timeout involved here, but where? The backup job shows always timeout after exactly 3 hrs.
