ACS incremental backup is OFF

Dear Team,
Incremental backup settings is changing to OFF state and getting below error message in the logs ACS . Please find the attachement.
""""" Aug 31 2014 04:01:21 com.cisco.nm.acs.view.common.incrbackup.IncrBackupJob.execute(IncrBackupJob.java:166) ERROR DefaultQuartzScheduler_Worker-5 Acs.MGMT.ACS
VIEW Incremental Backup: exception java.lang.NullPointerException
        at com.cisco.nm.acs.view.common.incrbackup.IncrBackupUtil.sendSystemAlert(IncrBackupUtil.java:1690)
        at com.cisco.nm.acs.view.common.incrbackup.IncrBackupImpl.executeBackup(IncrBackupImpl.java:457)
        at com.cisco.nm.acs.view.common.incrbackup.IncrBackupJob.execute(IncrBackupJob.java:125)
Sep 01 2014 22:08:21 com.cisco.nm.acs.view.common.incrbackup.XMLExceptionListener.exceptionThrown(XMLExceptionListener.java:44) FATAL DefaultQuartzScheduler_
Worker-9 Acs.MGMT.ACSVIEW Premature end of file.
        at com.cisco.nm.acs.view.common.incrbackup.IncrBackupUtil.getCatalogFromFile(IncrBackupUtil.java:1447)
        at com.cisco.nm.acs.view.common.incrbackup.IncrBackupImpl.executeBackup(IncrBackupImpl.java:286)
        at com.cisco.nm.acs.view.common.incrbackup.IncrBackupJob.execute(IncrBackupJob.java:125)
Sep 01 2014 22:08:21 com.cisco.nm.acs.view.common.incrbackup.IncrBackupImpl.executeBackup(IncrBackupImpl.java:446) ERROR DefaultQuartzScheduler_Worker-9 Acs.
MGMT.ACSVIEW Backup failed: null
Sep 01 2014 22:08:21 com.cisco.nm.acs.view.common.incrbackup.IncrBackupJob.execute(IncrBackupJob.java:166) ERROR DefaultQuartzScheduler_Worker-9 Acs.MGMT.ACS
VIEW Incremental Backup: exception java.lang.NullPointerException
        at com.cisco.nm.acs.view.common.incrbackup.IncrBackupUtil.sendSystemAlert(IncrBackupUtil.java:1690)
        at com.cisco.nm.acs.view.common.incrbackup.IncrBackupImpl.executeBackup(IncrBackupImpl.java:453)
        at com.cisco.nm.acs.view.common.incrbackup.IncrBackupJob.execute(IncrBackupJob.java:125)

Hi Muthuraj,
Can you please try reconfiguring incremental backup. I think as per the logic , the incremental backup is forced to OFF mode when an error is encountered during any of the previous incremental backups. If you are still seeing the same error after re-configuring , I would suggest you to check this issue with TAC , as it is something related to the data that is being backed up.
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Copyright (c) 1982, 2005, Oracle. All rights reserved.
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no parent backup or copy of datafile 4 found
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no parent backup or copy of datafile 6 found
no parent backup or copy of datafile 11 found
no parent backup or copy of datafile 7 found
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no parent backup or copy of datafile 13 found
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input datafile fno=00001 name=C:\ORACLE\ORADATA\FUJIVDB\SYSTEM01.DBF
input datafile fno=00006 name=C:\ORACLE\ORADATA\FUJIVDB\USER01.DBF
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input datafile fno=00009 name=C:\ORACLE\ORADATA\FUJIVDB\USER13.DBF
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input datafile fno=00012 name=C:\ORACLE\ORADATA\FUJIVDB\INDX11.DBF
input datafile fno=00013 name=C:\ORACLE\ORADATA\FUJIVDB\INDX12.DBF
input datafile fno=00014 name=C:\ORACLE\ORADATA\FUJIVDB\INDX13.DBF
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input datafile fno=00005 name=C:\ORACLE\ORADATA\FUJIVDB\TOOLS01.DBF
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channel ORA_DISK_1: specifying archive log(s) in backup set
input archive log thread=1 sequence=1 recid=9 stamp=729858731
input archive log thread=1 sequence=2 recid=10 stamp=729887062
input archive log thread=1 sequence=3 recid=11 stamp=729953114
input archive log thread=1 sequence=4 recid=12 stamp=729973634
input archive log thread=1 sequence=5 recid=13 stamp=729973634
input archive log thread=1 sequence=6 recid=14 stamp=730015209
input archive log thread=1 sequence=7 recid=15 stamp=730058416
input archive log thread=1 sequence=8 recid=16 stamp=730058416
input archive log thread=1 sequence=9 recid=17 stamp=730144816
input archive log thread=1 sequence=10 recid=18 stamp=730144816
input archive log thread=1 sequence=11 recid=19 stamp=730210042
input archive log thread=1 sequence=12 recid=20 stamp=730210200
input archive log thread=1 sequence=13 recid=21 stamp=730210201
input archive log thread=1 sequence=14 recid=22 stamp=730210443
input archive log thread=1 sequence=15 recid=23 stamp=730210444
input archive log thread=1 sequence=16 recid=24 stamp=730231219
input archive log thread=1 sequence=17 recid=25 stamp=730231220
input archive log thread=1 sequence=18 recid=26 stamp=730261837
input archive log thread=1 sequence=19 recid=27 stamp=730299124
input archive log thread=1 sequence=20 recid=28 stamp=730299125
input archive log thread=1 sequence=21 recid=29 stamp=730299448
input archive log thread=1 sequence=22 recid=30 stamp=730299459
input archive log thread=1 sequence=23 recid=31 stamp=730299531
input archive log thread=1 sequence=24 recid=32 stamp=730299531
input archive log thread=1 sequence=25 recid=33 stamp=730317616
input archive log thread=1 sequence=26 recid=34 stamp=730317616
channel ORA_DISK_1: starting piece 1 at 21-SEP-10
channel ORA_DISK_1: finished piece 1 at 21-SEP-10
piece handle=C:\BACKUPS\DATAFILE\ORA_DF730317617_S58_S1 tag=TAG20100921T180016 comment=NONE
channel ORA_DISK_1: backup set complete, elapsed time: 00:00:18
Finished backup at 21-SEP-10
Starting Control File and SPFILE Autobackup at 21-SEP-10
piece handle=C:\BACKUPS\CONTROLFILE\CF_C-639859515-20100921-07 comment=NONE
Finished Control File and SPFILE Autobackup at 21-SEP-10
RMAN retention policy will be applied to the command
RMAN retention policy is set to recovery window of 8 days
no obsolete backups found
RMAN retention policy will be applied to the command
RMAN retention policy is set to recovery window of 8 days
using channel ORA_DISK_1
no obsolete backups found
Starting restore at 21-SEP-10
using channel ORA_DISK_1
channel ORA_DISK_1: starting validation of datafile backupset
channel ORA_DISK_1: reading from backup piece C:\BACKUPS\DATAFILE\ORA_DF729786183_S13_S1
channel ORA_DISK_1: restored backup piece 1
piece handle=C:\BACKUPS\DATAFILE\ORA_DF729786183_S13_S1 tag=TAG20100915T142303
channel ORA_DISK_1: validation complete, elapsed time: 00:00:26
Finished restore at 21-SEP-10
Starting restore at 21-SEP-10
using channel ORA_DISK_1
channel ORA_DISK_1: starting validation of datafile backupset
channel ORA_DISK_1: reading from backup piece C:\BACKUPS\CONTROLFILE\CF_C-639859515-20100921-07
channel ORA_DISK_1: restored backup piece 1
piece handle=C:\BACKUPS\CONTROLFILE\CF_C-639859515-20100921-07 tag=TAG20100921T180035
channel ORA_DISK_1: validation complete, elapsed time: 00:00:02
Finished restore at 21-SEP-10
Recovery Manager complete.

Incremental Backup question

Hi,
I have a hot backup taken every wednesday and archive log backups taken every day. (using RMAN and netbackup). Oracle is 10.2.0.3 and OS is RHEL4.
Do I still need or (will it be helpful to have ) incremental backups? What is its purpose? Will the recovery be faster if I have incremental backups? Please comment.
Thank you,

i guess this is a good best practice found in Expert Oracle Database by Sam Alapati
"If you expect few changes in data, you are better off using incremental backups, since they
won’t consume a lot of space. Incremental backups, as part of your backup strategy, will reduce the
time required to apply redo during recovery. However, if most of your database blocks change frequently,
your incremental backups will be quite large. In such a case, you are better off making a
complete image copy of the database at regular intervals."
Edited by: doro on Aug 19, 2011 1:57 PM

Why are the incremental backups so large??!! 16GB vs. 300MB

I have the Time Machine system preference turned to Off, as I do the backups Manually every couple of weeks (Back Up Now from the Menu Bar). Here is what puzzles me: I don't work with large files. My incremental increase in size in a couple of weeks might be 200-300 Megabytes. Yet, each incremental backup is 12- 16 GB, which of course takes forever. Can anyone shed any light into why the large size??

PrefabSprouter wrote:
I have the Time Machine system preference turned to Off, as I do the backups Manually every couple of weeks (Back Up Now from the Menu Bar). Here is what puzzles me: I don't work with large files. My incremental increase in size in a couple of weeks might be 200-300 Megabytes. Yet, each incremental backup is 12- 16 GB, which of course takes forever. Can anyone shed any light into why the large size??
what Tesserax said ! or, if you have +disk warrior+ installed, it could be its +trash protection+ folder.
install timetracker from here. it will let you look at any given backup and determine what has been backed up. that way, i discovered the DW folder as the culprit and excluded the sucker from being backed up. voila, backups came back to a regular size

ACS Scheduled Backups + Secondary backup

Hi,
I've got a pair of ACS 5.3's - primary and secondary and am trying to configure scheduled backups to an SFTP server.
I've configured scheduled backups to backup ACS every night at 00:00
System Administration > ... > Operations > Scheduled BackupsSystem Administration > ... > Operations > Scheduled Backups
System Administration > ... > Operations > Scheduled Backups
...which is working fine - although for some reason - the backup size was around 25MB when I was running 5.2 - but is now only 2.5MB since I upgraded to ACS 5.3...?
My question is:
- What does the scheduled backup include? Does it contain the ACS configuration (network device and user database, and policy etc) AND the ADE device config (the 'sh run' when you ssh to the ACS/ADE platform) - or is it just the ACS config? ie. is it the equivalent of the CLI command 'backup backupname repository myrepository' (ACS+ADE) or 'acs backup backupname repository myrepository' (just ACS)?
Also - with the scheduled backup - it only seems to create a backup from the primary ACS - but never creates a backup from the secondary ACS If the scheduled backup contains both the ACS databse and the ADE config - then that covers the whole primary ACS - but that means that the secondary's ADE config is never backed up? If you do a manual CLI backup from the secondary - you get a backup file created and transferred - although it's only small as it only contains the ADE config - but I'm confused why this isn't done as part of the scheduled backup?
Thanks,
Rob...

TAC have just answered this question for me:
The Scheduled Backups feature backs up ACS configuration data only (all the GUI config, NDs,policies, user credentials etc).
It’s NOT equivalent to the CLI command 'backup backupname repository ’
It’s actually equivalent to the CLI command “'acs backup backupname repository” (This is ACS config data only).
The scheduled backup on the Primary will create an ACS configuration backup only. And since the Primary ACS and Secondary ACS should be in sync and the Primary controls any change in the database that’s fine (because it’s only config, no logs and no ADE OS data)
So you need to backup your ADE config separately - either a one off manual backup from the GUI (System Administration > ... > Operations > Distributed System Management) - from the primary - and select 'ADE-OS and ACS Configuration Backup ' - AND then do the same for the secondary (still via the primary GUI). Or do a 'backup backupname repository ' from both primary and secondaries.
Or - backup the 'sh run' type config from both primary and secondary.
Hope that helps anyone else looking for the same answers. The documentation isn't that clear for this in ACS.
Rob...

Incremental backup from time capsule (time machine backup) to external disk

I have two questions regarding backing up a time capsule backup.
I would like to backup the time machine backup of my Macs from a time capsule to an external hard disk. The time capsule is a first geneneration one with 500 GB. The external hard disk has 500 GB as well with USB and firewire ports..
First question: What is the best way to connect these two hard drives - I am using a MacBook Air with two USB ports ?
Second question: What backup software could I use to do incremental backups - I tried ChronoSync but it is not picking up the changes of the sparcebundles ?
Thank you for every valuable advice
Regards

CAAN wrote:
I have two questions regarding backing up a time capsule backup.
I would like to backup the time machine backup of my Macs from a time capsule to an external hard disk.
Backing-up your backups is generally not a good idea. If there's a problem with the original backup, it will be copied to, and perhaps magnified on, the copy.
You'd be much better off making "secondary" backups separately. See #27 in [Time Machine - Troubleshooting|http://web.me.com/pondini/Time_Machine/Troubleshooting.html] (or use the link in *User Tips* at the top of the +Time Machine+ forum), for some suggestions.
About the only alternative is to "archive" the TC's contents to a USB drive connected to it, but that's not incremental, and has other downsides as well. See #Q6 in [Using Time Machine with a Time Capsule|http://web.me.com/pondini/TimeMachine/TimeCapsule.html] (or use the link in *User Tips* at the top of this forum).

Rescue and Recovery 4.5 Incremental backup reverts to LOCAL when i have 2nd hard drive

I have 2 hard drives.
Installed R & R 4.50.
Set 2nd hard drive as Store Location.
Initial "scheduled" full back up goes to my D drive. (This does NOT use the windows task scheduler).
During next Incremental backup (set by the back up at this time setting), it reverts back to local drive,
and does another FULL backup to my C drive folder RRbackups.
Problem is windows Task Scheduler is NOT set, under TVT folder task, to backup up to 2nd hard drive.
I edited Task Scheduler to change folder TVT, task launchRnR, actions from:
start a program %R%/rrcmd.exe BACKUP location=L name=Scheduled   scheduled
to:
start a program %R%/rrcmd.exe BACKUP location=S name=Scheduled   scheduled
otherwise, all works fine. Such a Major bug. Anyone else having this problem?
Solved!
Go to Solution.

I recently Reinstalled R and R 4.50. Same bug as i noted. The entry in the windows task scheduler is INCORRECT.
For those backing up to a 2nd hard drive, use my Solution. The initial BASE backup will go to the correct
backup location. Subsequent Incrementals use the Task scheduler to kick off the backup .. I do not know what
the parmeter is to point to a USB drive. Location = S is the correct parmeter to back up to a 2nd hard drive.
Control Panel>Administrative tools>task scheduler>tvt folder
Entry "LaunchRnR" select this entry. Right click this entry. Properties. Choose the Actions tab. Then EDIT.
You will see ADD arguments(optional); entry block will contain
BACKUP location=L name=Scheduled scheduled
Change location=L to location=S. Click OK. Next run should go to 2nd hard drive. Major Flaw!
===
During Initial 1st time run of R&R, it will ask. you have NOT taken a backup, back up now? Reply NO.
If you reply YES, it will go to your C drive, since you have not changed your backup location.
If you replied YES, you have a base backup on your C drive. If this happens, Delete the base back up.
Go to set schedule parm, choose time and day, and location 2nd drive. It will then ask do you want to back up.
Reply YES, IT will go to the 2nd hard drive. THEN the bug shows up when incrementals start.
Change windows task scheduler as noted above.

ACS incremental backup is OFF

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