HP Data Protector and Oracle 10g RAC Configuration Best Practices

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Figure 13. Data Protector RMAN script edit window
• Connect with RMAN to the instance and recovery catalog and specify the channel parallelism we
want to use; in our case parallelism 2 (two tapes devices)
RMAN> CONFIGURE DEVICE TYPE 'SBT_TAPE' PARALLELISM 2 BACKUP TYPE TO BACKUPSET;
• In the recovery catalog, configure the channels with the connection string. We define two SBT
channels, 1 connecting to instance RAC1 and 2 connecting to RAC2. For the ENV parameters:
– OB2BARTYPE = refers to the Oracle integration: Oracle8
– OB2APPNAME = Database Name (not instance): in our case RAC
– OB2BARLIST = Name of the backup specification defined in the first step:
RAC_POOL_sbt_rcvcat
– CONNECT connection information for the instance
RMAN> CONFIGURE CHANNEL 1 DEVICE TYPE 'SBT_TAPE' PARMS
'ENV=(OB2BARTYPE=Oracle8,OB2APPNAME=RAC,OB2BARLIST=RAC_POOL_sbt_rcvcat)' CONNECT
'sys/xxx@RAC1';
RMAN> CONFIGURE CHANNEL 2 DEVICE TYPE 'SBT_TAPE' PARMS
'ENV=(OB2BARTYPE=Oracle8,OB2APPNAME=RAC,OB2BARLIST=RAC
_
POOL
_sbt_rcvcat)' CONNECT 'sys/xxx@RAC2';
Below, the summary of Recovery Catalog saved parameters for the database RAC:
RMAN> show all;
RMAN configuration parameters are:
CONFIGURE RETENTION POLICY TO REDUNDANCY 1; # default
CONFIGURE BACKUP OPTIMIZATION OFF; # default
CONFIGURE DEFAULT DEVICE TYPE TO 'SBT_TAPE';
CONFIGURE CONTROLFILE AUTOBACKUP ON;
CONFIGURE CONTROLFILE AUTOBACKUP FORMAT FOR DEVICE TYPE DISK TO '%F'; # default