Database backup on tape

Hi All,
I am trying to backup the database using tar command on tape storage.
server is sun solaris and tape storage is LTO4 (1.7TB)
I want to tar with zip directly to the tape but couldn't find any option in solaris to zip with tar like we are having ( tar -cvzf in linux).
could anyone please guide me how to achieve that?
if i have to use unix PIPE (|) with the tar command to take it directly to tape then what should be the command?
Thanks

First of all I didn't see you writing you did shutdown the database before backups are made.
Make sure the database is shutdown, or you backups are totally useless !!!
The default UNIX tar as installed on Sun and e.g. AIX doesn't support instant compressing by calling gzip with the -z option.
Take a look at http://www.gnu.org or even better at: http://www.sunfreeware.com and download the GNU tar
Install it on your server, usually it will be installed in /usr/local/bin. Use that tar command for your backup as it does support the -z option.
Make sure 'gzip' is in your search PATH
On the other hand I am wondering why you would gzip the database file before putting them on tape.
Is it to save tape storage ??
Nowadays tape devices have their own hardware compression, making to unnecessary to compress the files on forehand.

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Maybe you could read the manual?

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Hi,
<New questions Snip<
Q1) For file/volume protection, synchronization is not RP. We have to configure RP creation time manually.
A1) Correct, file synchronizations are not recoverable, only "recovery points" are recoverable.
Q2) For application's (SQL,EXCH,SHAREPOINT) recovery points each synchronization job will create a RP as per synchronization frequency.
A2) Yes, for applications like SQL and Exchange that support incremental backups, then incremental synchronizations are recoverable.
Q3) If a tape backup is getting failed due to invalid RP on disk, I am creating a manual RP with Express full backup(for databases) and a RP with Incremental(for file/volume share), then resuming tape backup. Is it correct way to do this?
A3) Yes, A manual Express full for application data or a manual recover point with synchronization for file / share data and that should allow you to manually create a new tape based backup from the alert.
Q4)How to enable the verify option to check the integrity of the tape backup?
A4) Simply modify the PG that has tape based protection and while on the "Select Library and tape Details" page, select the option "check backup for data integrity (time consuming operation)".
Q5) And what is Co-Location..!!
A5) Tape co-location allows data from different protection groups to be written to the same tape. You need to make a tape protection group set using the "Optimize usage" feature under the management - Libraries page of the DPM console.
See the following TechNet pages.
Tape Optimization Setup - Create-Modify Protection Group Set
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/jj628037.aspx
Tape Optimization Setup - Advanced Options
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/jj628016.aspx
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How to restore a Rman backup from Tape

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user11969666 wrote:
Hi,
We need to restore the database backup taken through RMAN on 24-JUNE-2013 from tape as this backup is not currently available on disk.
Can you please help me on the following,
1) how i can check if the same backup on 24-JUNE-2013 is available on Tape.
2) If yes how i can restore to Disk.
Because we need to create a new Clone instance from the backup taken on 24-JUNE-2013.
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Backup to Tape ; Some Design questions

Version : We have DBs on 10.2, 11.2 Enterprise Edition
Platform: Solaris 5.10 SPARC
Helloo..
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1. If you were to design a Backup strategy, would you backup to Disk first and then get the Sysadmin to
copy to Tape OR backup directly to Tape?
2. Do you guys backup Level_0 backup on TapeA , Level_1 backups on Tape B
and Archivelogs, Control file , Spfile on TapeC
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1. Best practice directly to tape
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b. Can compress
c. Inexpensive for VLDB.
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b. Storing tapes and tape maintenance.
c. Slow process
Writing directly to Disks
Adv:a. For smaller databases with less retention.
b. Faster backups locally
c. Faster restores.
DisAdv:a.Media failure
b.Does not work for VLDB
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3. Refer #1.
hth.
Edited by: user11155666 on Jun 2, 2011 5:52 PM

Restore RMAN backup from tape

I have to restore the RMAN full backup from tape to new host to a previous date say March 1st. My target database RMAN retention period is 28 days, today is 11th May.
Is it possible to restore the obsolete database from tape backup to new host as of May 1st. If not possible, I would like to restore the available backup say as 15th April from tape to new host.
Can you please provide me the steps to restore the tape old backup to new host.
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Full Database Backup in DB13 for MS SQL Server databases

Hello,
We have some SAP systems using the MS SQL Server database. I want to know if it is possible to setup the Full Database Backup option in transaction DB13 to store the files in a hard disk space.
I already did this type of configuration in SAP systems in Oracle databases and for this I used the init<SID>.sap where we can put all the configuration, for instance the disk path where we want to save the backup files! But for MS SQL Server databases, in DB13, I don´t know how to do that, when I add the "Full Database Backup" option in DB13, this show me some options but only for tape, but I don´t want to store the backup files in tapes, I want to store/save the files on the server disk itself or else to an external disk but I don´t see where I can set this way of storage!
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Hello Raja
Sorry for the delay of my answer! Many thanks for that tip, it helps a lot and it solve the last error/problem that I reported here, in fact, the problem was we had named the device with two words containing a space. So we removed that space from the backup device (in SQL management studio) with one word only and the job runs successfully without any errors!
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***************************** SQL Job information ******************************
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Type: TSQL
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 <------------- End of Job Step History --------------->
**************************** Job history information *****************************
Can you help me please with this one!? Can you tell me why in verification it stops with that error?
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Thanks for your reply.
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I am using oracle 10gR2 on solaris 10. I configured Rman for my database. I ran the backup command on monday and again tuesday and again today also.
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Dear All,
I am facing the backup issue for long time. i have tried with different solution. But still i couldnot clear.
Please help me to clear the issue.
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DB : ORACLE 9.2.0.6.0
SAP : ECC6 , Kernel : 304 and DBTOOL : 52 (latest one).
I am taking the database and arch backup into tape.
Tape and init<SID>.sap details : tape_address = /dev/rmt/0mn, tape_address_rew = /dev/rmt/0m, tape_size = 400000M,
expir_period = 0, tape_use_count = 300
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BR0261E BRBACKUP cancelled by signal 15.
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BR0278E Command output of 'LANG=C cd /oracle/VRD/sapreorg && /usr/sap/VRD/SYS/exe/run/brtools -f detach LANG=C cpio -iuvB .tape.hdr0 < /dev/rmt/0mn':
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BR0279E Return code from 'LANG=C cd /oracle/VRD/sapreorg && /usr/sap/VRD/SYS/exe/run/brtools -f detach LANG=C cpio -iuvB .tape.hdr0 < /dev/rmt/0mn': 0
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BR0226I Rewinding tape volume in device /dev/rmt/0m ...
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BR0280I BRARCHIVE time stamp: 2010-05-12 10.16.35
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With Regards,
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Dear Joe,
Thanks for your reply.
can change the parameter tape_use_count = 300 to 100?. advise me whether some other parameter causing the error.
I am running the online backup with the option : Whole database online + redo log backup in same run.
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BR0016I 8 offline redo log files processed, total size 75.882 MB
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BR0203I to /dev/rmt/0mn ...
BR0202I Saving det_log
BR0203I to /dev/rmt/0mn ...
BR0202I Saving sum_log
BR0203I to /dev/rmt/0mn ...
BR0280I BRARCHIVE time stamp: 2010-05-12 16.27.48
BR0226I Rewinding tape volume in device /dev/rmt/0m ...
BR0351I Restoring /oracle/VRD/sapreorg/.tape.hdr0
BR0355I from /dev/rmt/0mn ...
BR0278E Command output of 'LANG=C cd /oracle/VRD/sapreorg && /usr/sap/VRD/SYS/exe/run/brtools -f detach LANG=C cpio -iuvB .tape.hdr0 < /dev/rm
650 blocks
BR0280I BRARCHIVE time stamp: 2010-05-12 16.27.48
BR0279E Return code from 'LANG=C cd /oracle/VRD/sapreorg && /usr/sap/VRD/SYS/exe/run/brtools -f detach LANG=C cpio -iuvB .tape.hdr0 < /dev/rmt
BR0359E Restore of /oracle/VRD/sapreorg/.tape.hdr0 from /dev/rmt/0mn failed due to previous errors
BR0218E Checking label on volume in device /dev/rmt/0mn failed
BR0280I BRARCHIVE time stamp: 2010-05-12 16.27.48
BR0226I Rewinding tape volume in device /dev/rmt/0m ...
BR0007I End of offline redo log processing: aedfduej.cds 2010-05-12 16.28.26
BR0280I BRARCHIVE time stamp: 2010-05-12 16.28.26
BR0005I BRARCHIVE terminated with errors

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Sql 2012 maintainence plan has an option to backup to tape. Does this work even if Windows 2012 does not support backup to tape. Can we use this method to bcakup SQL database directly to tape, what are the advantages or drawback of these ?

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http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms179313.aspx
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2. As to the question about drawbacks and advantages,
I recommend to use Google. This look like a nice start point:
http://www.ultrabac.com/subcontent.aspx?SecID=781
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BR0280I BRRESTORE time stamp: 2011-01-07 16.13.44
BR0229I Calling backup utility with function 'restore'...
BR0278I Command output of '/usr/sap/QC4/SYS/exe/run/backint -u PC4 -f restore -i /oracle/QC4/sapbackup/.reeypwkq.lst -t file -p /oracle/QC4/102_64/dbs/initQC
4.utl':
Program:                /usr/sap/QC4/SYS/exe/run/backint 5.0GA
Input File:             /oracle/QC4/sapbackup/.reeypwkq.lst
Profile:                /oracle/QC4/102_64/dbs/initQC4.utl
Function:               RESTORE
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BR0386E File '/oracle/PC4/sapdata2/pc4_103/pc4.data103' reported as not found by backup utility
BR0386E File '/oracle/PC4/sapdata1/pc4_64/pc4.data64' reported as not found by backup utility
BR0386E File '/oracle/PC4/sapdata2/pc4_116/pc4.data116' reported as not found by backup utility
BR0386E File '/oracle/PC4/sapbackup/cntrlPC4.dbf' reported as not found by backup utility
BR0280I BRRESTORE time stamp: 2011-01-07 16.13.47
BR0279E Return code from '/usr/sap/QC4/SYS/exe/run/backint -u PC4 -f restore -i /oracle/QC4/sapbackup/.reeypwkq.lst -t file -p /oracle/QC4/102_64/dbs/initQC4
.utl': 2
BR0374E 0 of 161 files restored by backup utility
BR0280I BRRESTORE time stamp: 2011-01-07 16.13.47
BR0231E Backup utility call failed
BR0406I End of file restore: reeypwkq.rsb 2011-01-07 16.13.47
BR0280I BRRESTORE time stamp: 2011-01-07 16.13.47
BR0404I BRRESTORE terminated with errors
Please help us out in rsloving this error
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John N

>
John Namala wrote:
> BR0278I Command output of '/usr/sap/QC4/SYS/exe/run/backint -u PC4 -f restore -i /oracle/QC4/sapbackup/.reeypwkq.lst -t file -p /oracle/QC4/102_64/dbs/initQC
Hi,
you are restoreing PC4 database on system QC4.
This requires a netbackup permission configuration to allow client QC4 to access the backup from system PC4.
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A indication of the size of each database would be helpful.
However, its NOT a good idea to take only one on line backup a week. What if you have a tape error and cant recover a TL? You have no chance for recovery. This is not best practice. Can the business except a 4,5 or even 6 days loss of data - id guess not.
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