Re: Configuring Veritas Netbackup Question

2003-12-12 Thread Ron Rogers
Yechiel, Thanks for the clerification. I thought that Veritas purchased BackupExec and renamed it to NetBackup. When you say that Veritas provided an output option for RMAN are you referring to the storing of the RMAN output on disk or tape in a format that Veritas uses for it's tape drives?

Re: Configuring Veritas Netbackup Question

2003-12-11 Thread Yechiel Adar
He is talking about Veritas NetBackup which is different from BackupExec. Anyway, Veritas client just provide output option for RMAN. It is RMAN that perform the backup, so it can be hot or cold. It depends if you are serving coffee or mineral water. Yechiel Adar Mehish - Original Message

Configuring Veritas Netbackup Question

2003-12-10 Thread Dwayne Cox
I apologize for this *basic* question but I have searched the manuals, Robert Freeman's RMAN book and MetaLink as well as Googled and cannot find the answer. I know its something simple. We have Veritas Netbackup 4.5 running on Red Hat Linux 7.2. It has been backing up our netowrk for a

Re: Configuring Veritas Netbackup Question

2003-12-10 Thread Ron Rogers
Dwayne, Doesn't the Veritas backup exec Oracle client perform a HOT backup of the database? If that is the case then the RMAN backup is performed differently that the hot backup. Read the script that the Oracle client uses to see what is happening. I may be off base with this version of backup

Re: Configuring Veritas Netbackup Question

2003-12-10 Thread Jared . Still
To:Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: Subject:Configuring Veritas Netbackup Question I apologize for this *basic* question but I have searched the manuals, Robert Freeman's RMAN book and MetaLink as well as Googled and cannot find the answer. I

Re: Configuring Veritas Netbackup Question

2003-12-10 Thread Dwayne Cox
Brian, Netbackup does indeed have to be linked to Oracle. I performed this and it seemed to go well (no obvious error messages). -DC- Spears, Brian wrote: Dwayne Cox, Don't know if this is the same problem, but I did run into this and the there had to be a re-linking and a softlink set for

RE: Configuring Veritas Netbackup Question

2003-12-10 Thread Spears, Brian
Dwayne Cox, Don't know if this is the same problem, but I did run into this and the there had to be a re-linking and a softlink set for a library if I remember correctly. Just an idea to check. I know this stuff is a bugger till you get it working. Brian -Original Message- Dwayne Cox

Re: Configuring Veritas Netbackup Question

2003-12-10 Thread Andy Rivenes
I don't have any experience with Netbackup, just Legato, but there is a utility called sbttest that may help in troubleshooting the problem. Here's an example from something I wrote up a while back: /ora01/V901$ sbttest osmtab01.dbf -dbname V901 -trace /oracle/sbtio.log The sbt function pointers