Re: Configuring Veritas Netbackup Oracle Application Backup with Different Levels of Retention Period

yam wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am trying to configure veritas netbackup oracle application backup to
> backup my oracle database running on my DB server.
> With the help of my DBA, i am able to successfully backup the datbase
> using RMAN script. My backup policy is based on daily incremental,
> weekly full, monthly full and yearly full.
>
> May i know how do create the above retention periods on my schedule
> with backup type "application-backup"?
>
> Thanks in advance for your time.
>
> regards,
> yam

I am not sure if I understand your question correctly, but here is what I think to be the case:

There are two possible places where you specify the retention:

1. RMAN catalog (assuming you are using one)
2. Netbackup CLASS/Policy

If you don't do anything about 1), chances are all your backup information will be stored in the catalog forever, therefore giving you infinite catalog retention. However, if your netbackup retention is only two weeks, then having infinite retention for catalog information is probably no good.

At the Veritas/Netbackup level, you can create one or multiple policies/classes with different retention specifications. Then in your RMAN script, you can specify which NB_ORA_CLASS to use for the backup.

JH Received on Mon Jul 17 2006 - 13:21:49 CDT