HP OpenView Storage B6960-96008 manual Oracle Backup, Manager User’s Guide

	Integrating Oracle and Data Protector
	Integration Concept
	The interface from the Oracle server processes to Data Protector is
	provided by the Data Protector Oracle integration Media Management
	Library (MML), which is a set of routines that allows the reading and
	writing of data to General Media Agents.
	Besides handling direct interaction with the media devices, Data
	Protector provides scheduling, media management, network backups,
	monitoring, and interactive backup.
Oracle Backup	Using this integration, you can perform the Oracle full and incremental
Types Handled by (up to incremental level 4) backup types.
the Integration	With Oracle full and incremental level 0 backups all data blocks per
	datafile are backed up. With Oracle incremental backup (level 1 or
	higher), only the data blocks that have changed since a previous backup
	are backed up.
	The difference between a full backup and an incremental level 0 backup
	is that the incremental 0 is a base for subsequent incremental backups.
	Therefore, Data Protector always performs Oracle incremental 0 when
	you select the full backup type in a backup specification.
	The full backup type is not related to the number of datafiles included in
	the backup, and can therefore be performed per single datafile. The data
	being backed up, regardless of the backup type (full or incremental), is
	selected and controlled by Oracle.
	Oracle incremental backups can be differential or cumulative. By
	default, Data Protector performs Oracle differential incremental
	backups. By changing the default RMAN script created by Data
	Protector, you can specify also a cumulative backup. For information on
	differential and cumulative Oracle backups, see the Oracle Recovery
	Manager User’s Guide.
NOTE	Regardless of the Oracle backup type specified, Data Protector always
	marks the Oracle backups as full in the Data Protector database, since
	the Data Protector incremental backup concept is different from the
	Oracle incremental backup concept.

A backup that includes all datafiles and current control file that belong to an Oracle Server instance is known as a whole database backup.

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