Netbackup agent for Oracle Configuration

Pre-work:

Infrastructure Details:

Master Server: usg4.ptc.com, running 7.1.0.3

Client: moctestvm, running 7.1.0.3 (Oracle host)

Configuration to be done on Oracle host – moctestvm:

Create necessary groups and a user

groupadd oinstall groupadd dba useradd -g oinstall -G dba -d /export/home/oracle -s /usr/bin/bash oracle passwd oracle

Create necessary folder for the installation

mkdir -p /export/home/oracle/product/11.2.0/db_1 mkdir /export/home/oracle/tmp chown -R oracle:oinstall /export/home/oracle

Change kernel parameters

projadd -U oracle -K "project.max-shm-memory=(priv,4g,deny)" oracle projmod -sK "project.max-sem-nsems=(priv,256,deny)" oracle projmod -sK "project.max-sem-ids=(priv,100,deny)" oracle projmod -sK "project.max-shm-ids=(priv,100,deny)" oracle echo "set maxuprc=16384" >> /etc/system echo "set max_nprocs=30000" >> /etc/system echo "set shmsys:shminfo_shmmax=4294967295" >> /etc/system

Download and Install binaries:

Netbackup Client 7.1.0.3 – https://fileconnect.symantec.com/LangSelection.jsp

Download Oracle 11g R2 binaries using this link http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/database/enterprise-edition/downloads/index.html

Install Oracle 11g R2 on Oracle host – moctestvm.

Note important locations/variables of Oracle:

ORACLE_HOME=/d00/export/home/oracle/app/oracle/product/11.2.0/dbhome_3

ORACLE_DATA=/d00/export/home/oracle/app/oracle/oradata

ORACLE_SID=orcl

Oracle DB Name=orcl

Oracle DB Password=orcl

Oracle Access URL=https://moctestvm:1158/em

Configuration Starts:

1. Log on to moctestvm as “Oracle” user2. Set the environment variables and path for Oracle on moctestvm under env

export ORACLE_SID=orcl

export ORACLE_HOME=/d00/export/home/oracle/app/oracle/product/11.2.0/dbhome_3

ORACLE_HOME=/d00/export/home/oracle/app/oracle/product/11.2.0/dbhome_3

PATH=/d00/export/home/oracle/app/oracle/product/11.2.0/dbhome_3/bin

3. Log on to Oracle server and bring the database down4. After the database is down, link the RMAN with the netbackup binaries. Browse to

“/usr/openv/netbackup/bin/oracle_link”

Wed Mar 28 13:40:54 EDT 2012

All Oracle instances should be shutdown before running this script.

Please log into the Unix system as the Oracle owner for running this script

Do you want to continue? (y/n) [n] y

LIBOBK path: /usr/openv/netbackup/bin

ORACLE_HOME: /d00/export/home/oracle/app/oracle/product/11.2.0/dbhome_3

Oracle version: 11.2.0.1.0

Platform type: i386

Linking LIBOBK:

ln -s /usr/openv/netbackup/bin/libobk.so.1 /d00/export/home/oracle/app/oracle/product/11.2.0/dbhome_3/lib/libobk.so

Done

Please check the trace file located in /tmp/make_trace.15349

to make sure the linking process was successful.

5. After the linking is successful, create an “ORACLE” type policy at Netbackup console. 6. Create a script to trigger the RMAN backup to Netbackup. Sample script is like the one shown

below:

$ORACLE_HOME/bin/rman <<EOF > /d00/export/home/oracle/script/log.txt

connect target sys/orcl@orcl

RUN{

ALLOCATE CHANNEL ch00 TYPE 'SBT_TAPE';

SEND 'NB_ORA_CLIENT=moctestvm, NB_ORA_SERV=usg4.ptc.com, NB_ORA_POLICY=Test';

BACKUP DATABASE PLUS ARCHIVELOG;

RELEASE CHANNEL ch00;

}

EOF

Exit

7. Here, in the script above NB_ORA_POLICY parameter equals the Netbackup policy created at the NBU console.