Backup Oracle 9i

Question

hi,
I am trying to use Oracle Secure Backup to backup my 9i server, but in the Admin documents, it seem that database backup can only be start in Oracle EM console. Is there any way to backup 9i server using OSB?
And what is the procedure to backup data which the Media server and DB server in separate host?
Thanks for any reply
Vincent

Answer 1

hi Vincent,
as far as I know, it is not possible to use OSB webconsole to start rman backup of a database. If you don't want to use Grid Control or OEM, you'll have to configure rman manually to use OSB. Something like
run {
allocate channel tape123 device type sbt parms='SBT_LIBRARY=/usr/local/oracle/backup/lib/libobk.so';
backup database;
release channel tape123;
will do. Of course you can write a script, which includes the rman commands and which you can schedule with any OS scheduler (cron f.i.).
The libobk.so should be copied during the installation of OSB client on the database server and after having configured this host as OSB client. If the libraries aren't installed, you'll have to copy them manually from the os spezific source files on the admin server.
Media server and database server can be different nodes.