I'm not an RMAN / Oracle guru here and I work pretty closely with my DBAs to make our backups work but my testing with 5.1 MP4 shows that the schedule retention overrides the default-application-backup. Further, how exactly do you run both a full and incremental in the same policy? If your policy calls full_backup.cmd (.sh) and that calls RMAN - how does RMAN or the script know which schedule Netbackup is running? Is this a scripting function you are using? I use two policies to call full versus incremental backups because I run two backup scripts, full_backup and incr_backup .cmd/sh. I guess you could customize your RMAN script to run a different command based on some sort of system input / variable?! Anyhow, we're upgrading to 6.0 here in the next month or two and I'm going to have to tackle this problem then. -Jonathan
________________________________ From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of mkiles Sent: Fri 11/24/2006 11:10 AM To: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: [Veritas-bu] Oracle RMAN backups Hi All I am going through the NetBackup for Oracle Admin guide, it mentions that you can have multiple schedules in the policy with different retention periods. That is you can have a FULL backup schedule with retention period of 1 year and an INCREMENTAL backup schedule with retention of 1 month. This may be new in NBU 6, but I remeber in NBU 5.x, the retention period that was always used was that of Default-Application-Backup schedule. So in my NBU 5.0 environment, I have ONE policy for FULL Oracle backup with 1 year retention and ONE Oracle policy for INCREMENTAL backups with 1 month retention. Each policy has 2 schedules in it, one of those is Default-Application-Backup schedule, both schedule have same retntion period, i.e. for FULL Backup policy retention period for both schedules is 1 year and for INCREMENTAL policy retention period for both schedules is 1 month. So my question is, is it the same behaviour in NBU 6.0 for Oracle and SQL backups, or it has changed. THX ____________________________________________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Everyone is raving about the all-new Yahoo! Mail beta. http://new.mail.yahoo.com <http://new.mail.yahoo.com/> _______________________________________________ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu _______________________________________________ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu