Data Guard :: Configuring RMAN For Incremental Backups In Environment
Aug 24, 2012
Here we have a dataguard environment with db1 as primary and db2 as physical standby database. We configured dataguard in 10g environments and we are not using grid control. What are the steps for configuring rman for incremental backups in this environment?
We want to schedule the backups to be taken in standby db, (that is applicable in case of switchover too). In the case of switchover to db2 what all do we need to do in rman manually to resume backups in db1?
"If no level 0 backup is available, then the behavior depends upon the compatibility mode setting. If compatibility is >=10.0.0, RMAN copies all blocks changed since the file was created, and stores the results as a level 1 backup. In other words, the SCN at the time the incremental backup is taken is the file creation SCN. If compatibility <10.0.0, RMAN generates a level 0 backup of the file contents at the time of the backup, to be consistent with the behavior in previous releases."
So yes, that's it. Even in the Oracle 11g OCP course and exam, the information given is for Oracle 9 (pre 10g). Seems like a major functional regression. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Original problem.
Am I not understanding something about rman???? Using oracle 10g standard edition and rman.
No existing backups.
When I run repeated level 1 cumulative incrementals, the appear to back up everything (like a level 0 would). My understanding is that if a level 1 is run w/o an existing level 0 backup, it will generate a level 0 backup. All subsequent level 1 backups should be level 1's as expected.
If I explicitly generate an level 0, followed by level 1's it all works as expected.
I am determining what got backed up by the size of the resulting save sets.
Do I have to do an explicit level 0 and then explicit level 1's? I thought not.
We just purchased NAS (Raid5) unit to manage our data storage. I am planning to create a virtual partition on this nas device and use one partition for oracle data storage and another virtual partition will be used by other data (files and may be sqlserver data files....etc..)
We will have oracle installed on seperate oracle server. Can we use RMAN to manage incremental backups in this environment? May main worry point is that our data storage device will have many different type of datas and will we be able to tell RMAN to make backups only from certain virtual drives?
Got Active DataGuard on a primary database, quite nicely sending its archive logs to its secondary. I can quite happily use the Broker and switchover between them.
Now if I take RMAN backups of the primary database, if I have to failover to the secondary, I'm gonna loose all those backups.
Well, I can restore the whole database to the backup, cos I can restore the control file, from the backuip and therefore I can restore the whole db.
But if I want to restore to a tablespace, I wont be able to , cos the db_unique_names names are different, and the DB ID's will be different.
Same goes if I use a recovery catalog....
so how do I failover/switchover without loosing my previous rman backups ??
i have implemented dataguard successfully, but later on standby machine will change and i use another machine for standby and implement dataguard from beginning but it will generate the below mention error after executing duplicate target database for standby dorecover command.
contents of Memory Script: { switch clone datafile all; }
I have a situation where I want to configure primary database (11.2) with 2 remote destinations. dest_2 is the default and points to a standby on host_2. However, I also want the primary db to continue transporting redo to dest_3 on node_3 when node_2 is taken down (planned or unplanned).
1) Configure the ALTERNATE attribute of dest_2 to point to dest_3.
2) Configure tnsnames client-side failover on primary host to point to 2 nodes (node_2 and node_3).
I have set up a single instance standbys for rac databases. Now, I need to offload the backups from the primary on to the standbys.
1. cancel managed recovery
2. connect to target(standby) and catalog and backup the standby
3. put standby in managed recovery mode.
I think following these steps, I can restore primary(?). Now, My question is, how can I use these standby backups to clone/refresh databases? I tried it by connecting to target(primary), catalog and auxiliary but rman is using the primary backups instead of standby's to refresh the auxiliary database.
I have a Primary database and Standby database both in ASM. Recently my archive logs got deleted and i am trying to recover my standby database with an incremental backup based on scn from primary database. But i face the below error when i recover the standby database with the incremental backup taken in primary database.
RMAN> recover database noredo;Starting recover at 06-NOV-13using target database control file instead of recovery catalogallocated channel: ORA_DISK_1channel ORA_DISK_1: SID=21 device type=DISKchannel ORA_DISK_1: starting incremental datafile backup set restorechannel ORA_DISK_1: specifying datafile(s) to restore from backup setdestination for restore of datafile 00001: +STDBY/11gdb/datafile/system.258.805921881destination for restore of datafile 00002: +STDBY/11gdb/datafile/sysaux.259.805921967destination for restore of datafile 00003: +STDBY/11gdb/datafile/undotbs1.260.805922023destination for restore of datafile 00004: +STDBY/11gdb/datafile
I have configured data Guard on oracle 11gR2. It is working fine. The only issue i am facing is that when i am stopping the database on the primary server, it is taking a long long time to down the database.
Is it normal?
Furthermore, regarding backup i used veritas Netbackup to perform hotbackup. Can i still used the same principle.
how to change non - SYS oracle users' password in data guard envirnment. We all know that for SYS password change in data guard. DBA has to change in primary database by either "alter user SYS identified by xxxx" or create password file with orapwd.
Then scp password file to standby database. However, if I want to change SYSTEM or DBSNMP passwords, I change on primary with " alter user ....." SQL, then new passwords will be login dictionary. But this new SYSTEM pqssword will be shipped with redo log to standby and SYSTEM password on standby will be updated? I need technical answer on this question
i have implemeted grid control for monitoring database. we have different database environment like PROD , STAGE, TEST, BETA.
Now my requirement is, i need to configure PROD & STAGE alert for one group (group1@oracle.com) means, what ever alerts generated by grid should sent notification to group1@oracle.com and TEST AND BETA database alerts should to group2@oracle.com.
Now i am following the oracle manual to configure notifications. unfortunately i could not find to complete my requirement.
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did any one implemented alerts to send different groups.
if I run below rman command lines in 10g and 11g RMAN, it works well, but NOT in RMAN (Release 8.1.7.4.0), so which commandlines I should use to get to the same pursposes in RMAN 8.1.7.4?
run { ALLOCATE CHANNEL c1 TYPE 'sbt_tape'; ALLOCATE CHANNEL c2 TYPE 'sbt_tape'; ALLOCATE CHANNEL c3 TYPE 'sbt_tape';
I am trying to create the Standby database using RMAN.
I have first created an auxiliary instance followed by the password file for the instance and the registering it it listener.
Below are the parameters of the pfile of the standby database and followed by the command issued at the RMAN prompt.
PFILE parameters [STANDBY] orcl.__db_cache_size=293601280 orcl.__java_pool_size=8388608 orcl.__large_pool_size=8388608 orcl.__oracle_base='F:appdsharma'#ORACLE_BASE set from environment
Can i setup physical standby without RMAN? I want to create a fresh single physical standby without RMAN .. If i copy all files in another system and take the controlfile from primary as alter database create controlfile for standby ... and fill all the gaps with archives.. Should it work ? i am on 10G Rhel 4 linux.. and both machines would have same config
We have two Windows 2008 VMs with Oracle 11G configured as primary and standby.This configuration has been defined by a partner who is no longer working for us.We have broken the correct application of the redo log on the standby when we have not correctly restored some snapshots on those two VMs.I would like to create a new Oracle server that will become the new standby. For that, I need too :
- Display the full dataguard configuration to reproduce it on the new server - Stop (delete ?) the configuration on the primary server.
We also have the current problem that RMAN refuses to delete old archivelog since they have not been applied to the standby.
We are going to implement oracle 11g. Now I wanna use rman to take the incremental backup in the follwing way:
Level-0 backup weekly, in the way:
run { allocate channel c1 type disk; allocate channel c2 type disk; BACKUP incremental level 0 DATABASE TAG 'Weekly_full' FORMAT 'E:RMAN_backupweekly_full_%d_%Y%M%D_s%s_p%p.bak'; backup archivelog all not backed up 1 times delete input TAG 'Weekly_full_arc' FORMAT 'E:RMAN_backupweekly_full_arc_%d_%Y%M%D_s%s_p%p.bak';
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and RETENTION POLICY TO RECOVERY WINDOW is set to 10 days, so that there is no chance that i will delete expired backup before taking backup.
Now my question is,
1) Is the way is correct that there is no wrong configuration. My main concern is about archive log, is it correct?
2) As i am deleting archive log files with the backup and after that the expired archive log backup is also deleted, so is there any chance of failure in recovery.
3) here how archive log backup will work with 10 days retention policy.
I have some client RMAN backups from an AIX machine, a set of .bkp files including the control file, that I have been asked to restore on a Windows 2003 server. My first question is if such a restore is possible?Also, the backups are from Oracle 10.2.0.3, and I need to restore them to 11g, will this cause any complications?
how to carry out such a restore procedure from scratch.
We have EM (Cloud 12c) initiated scheduled backup jobs that perform (all below are online backups, obviously archivelog mode)
- level 0 Incremental 3AM on Sunday - with options backup all archive logs, delete input, delete obsolete
- level 1 Incremental (non cumulative) 3AM every other day - same options
Recovery window is set to 3 days, other options below:
CONFIGURE RETENTION POLICY TO RECOVERY WINDOW OF 3 DAYS; CONFIGURE BACKUP OPTIMIZATION OFF; # default CONFIGURE DEFAULT DEVICE TYPE TO DISK; # default CONFIGURE CONTROLFILE AUTOBACKUP ON; CONFIGURE CONTROLFILE AUTOBACKUP FORMAT FOR DEVICE TYPE DISK TO '%F'; # default CONFIGURE DEVICE TYPE DISK BACKUP TYPE TO COMPRESSED BACKUPSET PARALLELISM 2;
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Everything appears to be working normally (archive logs are being backed up and once they are the archive logs themselves are being deleted from the FRA), but I'm having some trouble understanding the behavior of the delete obsolete.
With a recovery window of 3 days, on Monday at 11AM my expectation would be that I would find in backups the following:
- level 0s from day before (Sunday) and the previous Sunday (8 days prior)
- all level 1s from previous Sunday on (so Mon-Sat and this morning)
- archivelog backups from Friday until this morning
What I'm not understanding is that I'm seeing archivelog backups from last Monday, Tuesday, etc. - i would have thought these would have gone obsolete based on my recovery window, yet when I run report obsolete in RMAN nothing is showing up.
I have an environment in which backup is performed of Oracle 10/11 databases with the use of RMAN and Tivoli Storage Manager (Data Protection for Oracle).There are several databases and for every one there is a daily full backup and hourly archive logs backup.
Sometimes when full db backup takes longer (up to 4 hours) archive logs backups are missed - as TSM node cannot perform two backups at a time. I would like not to have those missed backups.
Option A was to delete association of the arch log scheduler during full backup. But when removing association we lose historical data about backup. And we need historical data to be able to create weekly / monthly / quarterly statistics of completed backups. We need to have 99% completed.
Option B was to create two nodes in TSM (TDPO) and one will do full backup only and another one only arch logs backup. So the problem is moved to RMAN. But from RMAN specialist I heard that this may cause problems with full backup. During full backup also archive logs are backed up (at the start and end) so there might be a problem with accessing the file that is used by another process. And this may cause problem with full backup - which we want to avoid especially.
RMAN is not removing obsolete backups and now the backup directory is nearly full.Retention policy is 1, however, there are backups more than 6 weeks old still in the backup directory.crosscheck and delete obsolete commands run every night, and I have also run these manually, yet the backup files still remain.It is like RMAN is not aware of their existance.How can I confirm that RMAN does not need them and therefore delete them manually using OS commands.
If I want to take Rman archive log backup with delete input command , how the archive logs will be copied to standby database
For eg
I am taking archive backup as
RMAN>backup archivelog all delete input;
here consider few archives are not copied to standby database (due to nw issue) then how standby will receives these missing archives as those are deleted by rman backup at primary side.
I am not getting any document related to above query.
