Backing up an Oracle Data Guard environment

Configure Oracle Data Guard under Data Protector

Before it is possible to run an Oracle backup with Data Protector, the Oracle instance needs to be

configured for Data Protector. Within a Data Guard environment two instances exist - Primary and

Standby – and need to be configured for Data Protector.

While the configuration of the Primary instance is like the configuration of a normal Oracle instance

the Standby instance requires a manual configuration.

On both systems follow the steps below:

• Install the Data Protector Oracle Integration agent on the system

• Link Data Protector’s Oracle Integration library to Oracle’s Media Management API library

• Add the Oracle user as member of Data Protectors Admin group

For detailed information about these steps please refer to the Data Protector Integration Guide for

Oracle (Web download under

http://ovweb.external.hp.com/lpe/doc_serv).

Now start Data Protector GUI and configure the Primary instance (orcale2) for Data Protector in the

same way like a normal Oracle integration (see Figure 3).

Figure 3 Primary database configuration

After successful completion of this step, two configuration files are created on the Data Protector Cell

Manager under:

<DP_HOME>\config\server\integ\config\Oracle8 (Windows)

/etc/opt/omni/server/integ/config/Oracle8 (HPUX/Sun Solaris)

The created files are:

<Full qualified hostname>%_OB2_GLOBAL Lists all configured Instances

< Full qualified hostname>%<SID> Configuration details of <SID>