HP StoreServ Application Suite for Oracle Media Recovery Manager and Third-Party Backup Tools

Recovery Manager for Oracle User’s Guide

■The database instance must be CLOSED for this operation. If the database is an RAC database, all RAC instances must be CLOSED.

■The base (datafile and/or archive log) virtual volumes must be temporarily removed from the primary (database) server.

■The specified virtual copy must have an Available status (not mounted).

Recovery Manager saves an ASCII control file and a binary control file for each created virtual copy in its repository. After a rollback, you may need to restore the control file in order to perform database recovery.

2.10 Recovery Manager and Third-Party Backup Tools

3PAR Recovery Manager integrates 3PAR Virtual Copy with Veritas NetBackup (NBU) and/or Oracle RMAN to perform off-host backup. Off-host backups can dramatically reduce performance impact on the primary host and minimize database down time or database in backup mode during backup.

Recovery Manager creates a virtual copy (snapshot) of the database, mounts it to the backup host, then performs backup of the virtual copy.

Recovery Manager supports online(hot), offline(cold), datafile, or archive log backups.

■Online backup - A database backup while it is OPEN.

■Offline backup - A database backup while it is CLOSED.

■Datafile backup - A backup of datafiles only.

■Archive log backup - A backup of archive logs only.

Recovery Manager can be configured to perform either NBU (user-managed) backup or Oracle RMAN backup (See 4.9 Recovery Manager Configuration Files on page 4.27 for details).

2.10.1 The Database Backup Utility

3PAR Recovery Manager’s database backup utility supports full and/or incremental backup of an Oracle database or archive log destination. Full backup of an Oracle database or archive log destination are always supported regardless of backup method (NBU backup or Oracle RMAN backup). However, incremental (differential or cumulative) backup of a whole Oracle database is only available using Oracle RMAN backup. Incremental (differential or cumulative) backup of archive log destination is only available for the NBU (user-managed) backup method.

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Recovery Manager and Third-Party Backup Tools