Automated Backup and Backup Jobs

While I install oracle 11g release 2 the installer asked me :-
if I want to enable or disable automated backups for my database. if enabled, then the backup jobs uses
the specified recovery area storage
Please help me to get knowledge about
1- the automated backups
2- the recovery area storage
Thanks a lot.

1)If you configure automated backups, oracle will run rman daily backup to backup all datafiles to flash recovery area
http://docs.oracle.com/html/B14399_01/install_overview.htm
2)configure flash recovery area using db_recovery_file_dest and db_recovery_file_dest_size.
Flash recovery area is the area where you can store permanent and transient files (like backups)
http://docs.oracle.com/cd/B19306_01/backup.102/b14192/setup005.htm

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Backup jobs and password changing problem

Hi
I have created few rman job in my db (11.2) to backup database.
I my company i have to change all system passwords (os - oracle, system, syman, etc...) every 90 days.
When i changing password for user who created backup jobs, this jobs stop working.
I,ve got "Invalid username and/or passworderror writing input to command" error.
Of course after changing passords i always setup "Preferred Credentials" but that dosn't help.
What am i doing wrog? What am i missing ?
Please advice.

If you use Preferred Credentials to authorize a Job, it will use the current credentials on the moment it is dispatched for execution.
This means that in case passwords changes, you just need to modify you preferred credentials
This is something you can do using EMCLI (command line interface) in a script for instance (or just use the GUI to modify)
checkout:
Oracle® Enterprise Manager Command Line Interface
11g Release 1 (11.1)
http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/E11857_01/em.111/e16185/toc.htm
regards
Rob
http://oemgc.wordpress.com

OFFLINE backup and DB13 jobs configuratins error in MSCS cluster with OFS

Hello,
We have recently installed SAP ERP 6.0 EhP4 SR1 in MSCS cluster using Oracle Fail Safe.
The installation is successful and all the failover scenarios work fine.
I need to schedule offline backups and DB13 jobs, which is not possible in current scenario as once the database shuts down it fails over to node2.
I am following sapnote 657999 to install standalone gateway on both the nodes of the cluster and assigned the service to ORACLE<SID> group. the gw<SID> is different from the ERP<SID>.
However, the service SAP<gwSID>_<gwSN> fail to come up with the following error.
The service SAPSGA_30 cannot be started on local computer
error 1067: the process terminated unexpectedly.
The ../SapCluster/sapgw and associated directories have full permission.
Following are the contents of the profiles in ../SapCluster/sapgw
default.pfl
SAPDBHOST = ORACLEPRD
gw30.pfl
SAPSYSTEMNAME = SGA
INSTANCE_NAME = GW30
SAPSYSTEM = 30
DIR_PROFILE=C:\WINDOWS\SapCluster\sapgw
DIR_EXECUTABLE=C:\WINDOWS\SapCluster\sapgw
DIR_INSTANCE=C:\WINDOWS\SapCluster\sapgw
SAPLOCALHOST = ORACLEPRD
SAPLOCALHOSTFULL = ORACLEPRD
startgw.pfl
SAPSYSTEMNAME = SGA
INSTANCE_NAME = GW30
SAPSYSTEM = 30
DIR_EXECUTABLE = C:\WINDOWS\SapCluster\sapgw
DIR_PROFILE = C:\WINDOWS\SapCluster\sapgw
DIR_INSTANCE = C:\WINDOWS\SapCluster\sapgw
_GW=gwrd.exe
Start_Program_00 = local $(DIR_EXECUTABLE)\$(_GW) pf=$(DIR_PROFILE)\gw30.pfl
Now as the service is a part of my ORACLE<ERP SID> group, everytime I try to bring the group online, it fails due to the gw service and toggles many times in the two nodes before coming to rest on one node withfailed gw service and database in the up condition.
Any insight in this regard will be really helpful.
Thanks
Nischal

Hello,
Yes we were able to configure offline backups.
We opted to install standalone gateway on both nodes and added it to the DB group. That provides the essential shell console.
You need to follow the SAP Note 657999 and then 378648 for setting the necessary environment variables.
One piece of advice, use the SID and system no. for the independent gateway, different from any of your SAP installations.
Thanks
Nischal

DPM 2012 R2 Backup job FAILED for some Hyper-v VMs and Some Hyper-v VMs are not appearing in the DPM

DPM 2012 R2 Backup job FAILED for some Hyper-v VMs
DPM encountered a retryable VSS error. (ID 30112 Details: VssError:The writer experienced a transient error. If the backup process is retried,
the error may not reoccur.
(0x800423F3))
All the vss Writers are in stable state
Also Some Hyper-v VMs are not appearing in the DPM 2012 R2 Console When I try to create the Protection Group please note that they are not part of cluster.
Host is 2012 R2 and The VM is also 2012 R2.

Hi,
What update rollup are you running on the DPM 2012 R2 server ? DPM 2012 R2 UR5 introduced a new refresh feature that will re-enumerate data sources on an individual protected server.
Check for VSS errors inside the guests that are having problems being backed up.
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Automating RMAN backup jobs in Windows

First off: THANK YOU to Ahmer Mansoor, EdStevens, and jgarry for helping me get my RMAN backup jobs up and running in this thread: Oracle 10g on Windows Server off-line database backup - a few questions You were a big help and provided very valuable advice!
Now I'd like to automate it. My plan is below - please let me know what you think. The four files will be run in this order.
ShutdownDB1.bat
set oracle_sid = pldg
C:\oracle\product\10.2.0\bin\sqlplus.exe /nolog @c:\oraclebackup\shutdowndb2.sql
ShutdownDB2.sql (called by the previous batch file)
set echo on
spool C:\oraclebackup\ShutdownDB.log
connect /@pledgemaker as sysdba
shutdown immediate
spool off
exit<Here there will be a thirty minute window or so while I XCOPY the Oracle Inventory and Oracle Home directories. I'll only do this about once a week or so.>
RMANBackup1.bat
set oracle_sid=pldg
C:\oracle\product\10.2.0\BIN\rman.exe target / cmdfile = 'c:\oraclebackup\rmanbackup2.scr' log = 'c:\oraclebackup\RMANBackup.log'
RMANBackup2.scr (called by the previous batch file)
startup mount
backup database
alter database open
exit

Ahmer Mansoor wrote:
why shutting down from sqlplus ?
You can include shutdown immediate in the RMANBackup2.scr file and remove the ShutdownDB1.bat and ShutdownDB2.sql.Okay, so how about just this?
RMANBackup1.bat
set oracle_sid=pldg
set echo off
C:\oracle\product\10.2.0\BIN\rman.exe target / cmdfile = 'c:\oraclebackup\rmanbackup2.bat' log = 'c:\oraclebackup\RMANBackup.log'
RMANBackup2.bat
RUN {
     shutdown immediate;
     startup mount;
     backup database;
     alter database open;
     exit;> }
exit;

One full backup job to run full backup of all databases and it failed. I post error message.Any help?

Executed as user: abc\user1. ... 2004-2009, Quest Software Inc. Registered Name: abc INC
Processed 1152 pages for database 'abc123', file 'abc123' on file 1. Processed 4 pages for database 'abc123', file 'abc123_log' on file 1. BACKUP DATABASE successfully processed 1156 pages in 0.725 seconds (13.051 MB/sec).
Backup added as file number: 1 Native Size: 11.19 MB Backup Size: 1.87 MB CPU Seconds: 0.27 [SQ
The backup set on file 1 is valid. CPU Seconds: 0.25 [SQLSTATE 01000] (Message 1)
LiteSpeed(R) for SQL Server Version 5.1.0.1293 Copyright 2004-2009, Quest Software Inc. Registered Name: abc INC
Processed 456 pages for database 'WSS_Search_abc1', file 'WSS_Search_abc1' on file 1. Processed 24 pages for database 'WSS_Search_abc1', file 'WSS_Search_abc1_Data2' on file 1. Processed 1 pages for database 'WSS_Search_abc1', file 'WSS_Search_abc1_log'
... The step failed.

Hi bestrongself,
Before you use a SQL Server Agent job to back up all database, I recommend you run the backup statement in query windows directly, and check if it can run well. I do a test by using the following statement,
DECLARE @name VARCHAR(50) -- database name
DECLARE @path VARCHAR(256) -- path for backup files
DECLARE @fileName VARCHAR(256) -- filename for backup
DECLARE @fileDate VARCHAR(20) -- used for file name
-- specify database backup directory
SET @path = 'C:\Backup\'
-- specify filename format
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SELECT name
FROM master.dbo.sysdatabases
WHERE name NOT IN ('master','model','msdb','tempdb') -- exclude these databases
OPEN db_cursor
FETCH NEXT FROM db_cursor INTO @name
WHILE @@FETCH_STATUS = 0
BEGIN
SET @fileName = @path + @name + '_' + @fileDate + '.BAK'
BACKUP DATABASE @name TO DISK = @fileName
FETCH NEXT FROM db_cursor INTO @name
END
CLOSE db_cursor
DEALLOCATE db_cursor
the script allow you to backup each database within your instance of SQL Server.
Your account need to have read and right permission to the path file.
If the above script can run well directly, then you can create a job and put your backup statement inside of it. There is a similar detail about how to create a simple backup job in SQL Server. You can review it.
http://www.petri.co.il/create-backup-job-in-sql-server.htm
Regards,
Sofiya Li
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UC560 - Nightly automated backup - Possible?

Hi,
I have an UC560 system. I would like to schedule a nightly backup job to backup all configuration and voice mails. Is it possible? Configuration doesn't change much on daily basis but the voicemails do and need a way to back them up unattended.
Please point me to right direction if you have figured out a good work around or solution.
Thanks,

Hello,
This is not possible through CCA, but you can use CLI and the CUE web gui to do this. There are also 3rd party tools you can use to do the automated backups.
See this post for the more info about backups: https://supportforums.cisco.com/thread/2155698
Here is an example how you would do this in CME:
kron occurrence monthly at 01:23 june 20 recurring
policy-list save-config
kron policy-list save-config
cli copy system:/running-config tftp://192.168.1.2/router-confg.txt
In the CUE web GUI under Administration you need to define the backup server. Then you can create a scheduled backup.
You will need FTP and TFTP servers running somewhere to backup the configurations and data to.
Hope this helps.
Thanks,
-john

Automated Backups using Intervals

Greetings!
I am seeking for an automated backup solution.
I want to schedule a backup task on the following pattern.
1.     On Every Monday:     Full (Level 0) bakup
2.     From Tuesday-Friday:     Incremental (Level 1 – Differential) Backup
3.     Saturday-Sunday:     No Backups
I want to make sure that all the above mentioned backup tasks must be taken automatically, through the scheduler.
I have tried to schedule it, but I don’t know how to use the rman script in the job-scheduler section in oracle.
Your advice and solution are solicited...
Best Regards
Zeeshan

You didn't mention your database version.
If your database is 10g you can use job scheduler.
Go to this link. It will be helpful.
http://www.oracle-base.com/articles/10g/Scheduler10g.php
http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/B19306_01/server.102/b14231/scheduse.htm
Regards
Asif Kabir

V12 (GA) switch issues. DB is stuck in creation state, automated backup issues, no monitoring data 1h

Hi,
On Friday we have switched databases to V12 version as it was announced that they are now generally available, but I have doubts that everything was tested by Microsoft, as immediately we have several issues:
1. We had automated backups scheduled on all DB. On Sunday everything started to not work properly. There were more than 10 backup databases created like AutomatedSqlExport_X_20150201T050000Z and emails send that backup cannot be created. We had to
remove them manually except one.
2. One of the backup database is still in creating state from yesterday so we cannot remove it.
3. We have turned off all automated backups in Azure Portal, but I'm not sure if they can be turned on again. I do not want to have 20 DB billed every week as autometed scripts are not working properly.
4. After switch in Management Portal only last hour metrics are available. Switching to 24h or more returns all zeroes. When do we count on the fix?
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Rafal

Hi Gluwer,
Thanks for posting here.
I suggest you to open a support case as this needs more back-end information which cannot be discussed over the forum.
Refer: http://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/support/options/
Girish Prajwal

Error: Sheduled Backup Job Problem

Dear all.
I've been getting a problem with a scheduled backup job through OEM since yesterday which I'm not able to find out why as it was working fine. When I access OEM I can see that I have a problem execution and when I investigate why it says "Unable to perform the backup because the database is closed". But my db is open for sure and I'm able to execute the backup from RMAN command line normally. I shut my db down and started it up again but didn't work. Does anybody know why this is happening?
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DB: Oracle Database 10g
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Status: Scheduled
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Type: Database Backup
Owner: SYS
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Blackout: NO
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$rman_script="backup incremental level 0 cumulative device type disk filesperset = 3 tag '%TAG' database;
backup device type disk filesperset = 3 tag '%TAG' archivelog all not backed up;
allocate channel for maintenance type disk;
delete noprompt obsolete device type disk;
release channel;
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Error in Backup job scheduling in DB13

Hi All
Backup job scheduled in DB13 kicks error ,I am using Oracle as database and ERP6.0
database and application are on diffrent servers.Before it was working fine,I didn't changed any password
I can run backupjob sucessfully directly from BRtools on database server.Please provide any hint
Job started
Step 001 started (program RSDBAJOB, variant &0000000000060, user )
No application server found on database host - rsh/gateway will be used
Execute logical command BRBACKUP On host DLcSapOraG08
Parameters:-u / -jid INLOG20090120204230 -c force -t online -m incr -p initerd.sap -w use_dbv -a -c force -p in
iterd.sap -cds -w use_rmv
BR0051I BRBACKUP 7.00 (31)
BR0128I Option 'use_dbv' ignored for 'incr'
BR0055I Start of database backup: bdztcorv.ind 2009-01-20 20.42.31
BR0484I BRBACKUP log file: D:\oracle\ERD\sapbackup\bdztcorv.ind
BR0280I BRBACKUP time stamp: 2009-01-20 20.42.32
BR0301E SQL error -1017 at location BrDbConnect-2, SQL statement:
'CONNECT /'
ORA-01017: invalid username/password; logon denied
BR0310E Connect to database instance ERD failed
BR0280I BRBACKUP time stamp: 2009-01-20 20.42.32
BR0301E SQL error -1017 at location BrDbConnect-2, SQL statement:
'CONNECT /'
ORA-01017: invalid username/password; logon denied
BR0310E Connect to database instance ERD failed
BR0056I End of database backup: bdztcorv.ind 2009-01-20 20.42.32
BR0280I BRBACKUP time stamp: 2009-01-20 20.42.32
BR0054I BRBACKUP terminated with errors
BR0280I BRBACKUP time stamp: 2009-01-20 20.42.32
BR0291I BRARCHIVE will be started with options '-U -jid INLOG20090120204230 -d disk -c force -p initerd.sap -cds -w use_rmv'
BR0002I BRARCHIVE 7.00 (31)
BR0181E Option '-cds' not supported for 'disk'
BR0280I BRARCHIVE time stamp: 2009-01-20 20.42.33
BR0301W SQL error -1017 at location BrDbConnect-2, SQL statement:
'CONNECT /'
ORA-01017: invalid username/password; logon denied
BR0310W Connect to database instance ERD failed
BR0007I End of offline redo log processing: adztcorw.log 2009-01-20 20.42.32
BR0280I BRARCHIVE time stamp: 2009-01-20 20.42.33
BR0005I BRARCHIVE terminated with errors
BR0280I BRBACKUP time stamp: 2009-01-20 20.42.33
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Job finished

Hi,
not sure if the recommendations given will address this issue.
You are getting this error:
BR0301E SQL error -1017 at location BrDbConnect-2, SQL statement:
'CONNECT /'
ORA-01017: invalid username/password; logon denied
the log file indicates:
> No application server found on database host - rsh/gateway will be used
This indicated that the user that is connecting from the AS to the DB server is not properly configured to perform the DB tasks on it.
So, first question would be to know if you have configured a gateway on the DB server and how, or if you are using remote shell.
Second question, you can do backups on the DB server.
> I can run backupjob sucessfully directly from BRtools on database server
How did you run exactly the backup job (what is the exact command line, what is the exact OS user that executed it)?
What is the OS of the DB server?
I have reread your post, your OS is windows therefore you fall in the "typical" error in Windows.
You have executed your backup as <sid>ADM and it works. Unfortunatelly, in windows, SAP is exectuted by SAPSERVICE<sid>, and this is the user who should be connecting to your DB server, and this is the user who cannot execute the backup.
The fact that you can run the backup with <sid>ADM in Windows does not means that you have SAPService<sid> properly configured.
For the error (see before) I think your ops$ user for this user is not properly configured in the DB server. take a look at the note mentioned by KT and pay attention to the SAPSERVICE<sid> configuration
Edited by: Fidel Vales on Jan 24, 2009 12:45 AM

Creating backup Job with DBMS_SCHEDULER

Hello,
Can someone please help me out here:
I'm using Oracle10g release 1 on windowsXP
I'm trying to create a backup job with dbms_scheduler and it's not working.
This is what I did:
I created a job as follows:
BEGIN
dbms_scheduler.create_job (
job_name => 'RMAN_FULL',
job_type => 'EXCUTABLE',
job_action => 'E:\wkdir\rman_bkp',
enabled => TRUE,
start_date => '24-NOV-2007 2:10:00 PM',
repeat_interval => 'FREQ=WEEKLY',
comments => 'Full Database Backup');
END;
While rman_bkp is an RMAN command but it wasn't working.
Please where do I get it wrong?
Kindly put me through the EXECUTABLE or should I use PL/SQL_BLOCK and how?
Thanks.
Regards,
Cherish

Hi,
There is a guide to running external jobs using the Scheduler here
Guide to External Jobs on 10g with dbms_scheduler e.g. scripts,batch files
You need to use the full path to a real Windows executable and the arguments to it e.g. for a batch script you would have to do something like
c:\windows\cmd.exe /q /c c:\myscript.bat
There is a forum dedicated to the Scheduler here
Scheduler
Hope this helps,
Ravi.

Error when scheduling backup job in OEM

We have Oracle 11.2 RAC on Redhat Linux. I was creating an customized backup job and get the errorsORA-01476: divisor is equal to zero
ORA-06512: at "SYSMAN.MGMT_JOB_ENGINE", line 7544
ORA-06512: at "SYSMAN.MGMT_JOB_ENGINE", line 7699
ORA-06512: at "SYSMAN.MGMT_JOB_ENGINE", line 8211
ORA-06512: at "SYSMAN.MGMT_JOB_ENGINE", line 8342
ORA-06512: at "SYSMAN.MGMT_JOB_ENGINE", line 8503
ORA-06512: at "SYSMAN.MGMT_JOB_ENGINE", line 8570
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ORA-06512: at "SYSMAN.MGMT_JOBS", line 86
ORA-06512: at line 1 The backup command is created by OEM as backup incremental level 0 cumulative device type disk filesperset = 5 tag '%TAG' section size 500 M database;
backup device type disk filesperset = 500 tag '%TAG' section size 500 M archivelog all not backed up;
allocate channel for maintenance type disk;
delete noprompt obsolete device type disk;
release channel; Actually using other ommand also get the same error.
What is wrong? I scheduled backup job before on this server and it worked.

This may be due to that the schedule frequecy is not set. Make sure Frequency Type and Repeat Every boxes get filled properly.

Can Windows Server Backup spread a single backup job across multiple disks if they are not set up as a virtual disk?

This may be a dumb question, but I can't seem to find any definitive information after having done many, many searches. Short question is - can Windows Server Backup spread a single backup job across multiple disks if they are not in a storage
pool or some other RAID/JBOD structure?
Background:
I'm running Server 2012 Essentials with all Windows Updates installed. I have been backing up approx 2.8TB of data (Bare Metal Recovery, C:, S: (shared folders), and system reserved) for the past year+ onto a storage pool made up of two-2TB external
USB drives. Backup is slow (takes approx 1.5 days to complete), but generally works. Not surprisingly I was constantly getting capacity low messages so I decided to increase my backup storage pool by adding a 3TB drive and another spare 750GB drive
for a total of 7.75TB. Instead of having four separate external USB enclosures, I bot a 4-bay enclosure - Startech.com model #S3540BU33E to simplify this (or so I thought!).
The first problem I had was adding the two new drives to the existing storage pool. I think that is because the Startech uses a JMicron USB controller that reports identical uniqueid's for all drives so only one shows up in the GUI interface for creating storage
pools. After doing research on this, I set up a new storage pool and virtual disk using all four drives via Powershell and thought I was good. However, when the backup ran, it failed after filling the first drive, saying there was no remaining capacity. In
reality there were three remaining empty drives and there storage pool reported almost 5TB of avail capacity. I assumed this was due to the identical uniqueid issue so I decided to try a different tactic.
Instead of using a storage pool that combines all four disks into one virtual disk, I just added each of them to Windows Server Backup as individual drives thinking it would manage them collectively. I.e., when a drive filled up during a particular backup,
it would just start using the next drive and so on. Apparently this was a foolish assumption because the backup failed again as soon as the first disk filled up.
So now I don't know if this is still an issue with the identical uniqueid's or if Server Backup actually can't spread a single backup across multiple individual drives that aren't in a pool or other virtual disk implementation. Hence, my original question.
My guess is that it does *not* spread them across individual disks, but I just wanted to get confirmation.
Thanks

Mandy,
Thank you for following up on my question.
Unfortunately the article you referenced doesn't address what I am trying to accomplish.
The article focuses on saving the same backup job to multiple disks and rotating the disks between on and offsite for enhanced protection. However, it still requires that an individual backup job fits on a single disk.
What I am trying to determine is if a single backup job can span across more than one physical disk (during the backup process) without those physical disks being in some type of virtual disk implementation (e.g., storage pool, RAID, etc.).
Thanks,
Gerry

RMAN backup job status not showing in OEM

Hi, I have created an RMAN backup job and scheduled it through OEM to run daily. The first run of this backup job completed today - however I do not see any entry for the job in OEM through SERVER - ORACLE SCHEDULER - JOBS
A lot of scheduler jobs are listed but not my backup job.
Has anyone else experienced this ?

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