Configuring Oracle RMAN backups with HP Data Protector to use deduplication on the VLS

Figure 16:

When you use this template during Oracle backup specification, you only need to adjust the

controlfile backup in the RMAN script.

Oracle 9i configuration without a recovery catalog

If no recovery catalog is available for the target database, it is not possible to store the script in the

database. The only possibility is to use an external script file and execute this external script file by rman.

The following configuration assumes that all configuration steps for Oracle 9i, until the

Replace the database backup statement sub-section have already been performed.

As %f parameter is not available in Oracle 9i, the distribution of the data files to the allocated

channels needs to be done manually. To do this, it is necessary to store the backup statement for the

data files in an external script because the Data Protector parser is not able to parse the required

changes. Extract the database backup statement marked in red and save it to a temporary location

like a text file.

…

backup incremental level <incr_level>

format 'oracle backup specification<ORACL_%s:%t:%p>.dbf'

database;

...

Replace this backup statement by a call to an external script file which will be created later. The script

file needs to be located on the target database server and the absolute path to the file needs to be

specified after a heading @ character:

…

@/home/oracle/rman_script;

...