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Re: RMAN with Legato NetWorker

From: StefanKapitza <skapitza_at_volcanomail.com>
Date: 5 Jan 2006 01:23:32 -0800
Message-ID: <1136453012.923153.258900@z14g2000cwz.googlegroups.com>

Vsevolod Afanassiev wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have been using RMAN with Veritas NetBackup for a while, and now need
> to do the same with Legato. However, it appears that there are
> substantial differences:
> - Veritas NB agent allows to run any shell script, so from agent
> running as root I could do "su - oracle" and then do the rest as UNIX
> user "oracle"
> - Legato agent does not allow to execute shell script, it calls rman
> executable directly, and as it is running as "root" we are facing the
> problem of connecting to the target database AS SYSDBA as "root". This
> is not easy as:
> - Oracle does not allow "root" to connect as SYSDBA even if root is a
> member of group dba - unless dba is a primary group for root (Metalink
> Note 69642.1). But primary group for root is root, not dba.
> - We could create password-authenticated user and give it SYSDBA role,
> but this means hardcoding the password in the script.
> - We tried to create OPS$ROOT and give it SYSDBA, but Oracle wouldn't
> grant SYSDBA to OPS$ user
>
> Any thoughts?

if you need to run a customized Script, look up the savepnpc Backup Command
in the Admin Guide.

regards

stefan k. Received on Thu Jan 05 2006 - 03:23:32 CST

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