Backup Tools in Oracle 8i

Are there other backup tools for Oracle 8i than Legato or RMAN?
And, are the backup tools of Oracle 8 available for Oracle 8i? Or are they usable with Oracle 8i?

Legato is not a great utility for backups...
And using RMAN without graphical environment is not really funny...
For Oracle 8 tools in Oracle 8i, I don't know...

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Oracle 8 backup tools in Oracle 8i?

I already posted a thread about that, but I still have no answer...
Is it possible to use the backup tools of Oracle 8 in Oracle 8i? instead of using RMAN (which is not very nice to use).
I'd like to write a backup script with a visual tool, and if i have to use rman to execute it after, i don't mind.
But are there any visual tools, or can i use those of Oracle 8?
Thx.
null

Hi,
I have not any experience in RMAN. I think, u can use oracle utilities export and imports. It helps u to take backup as well as restore.
If u want to use in any projects, U can customise it.
With regards,
Boby Jose Thekkanath
[email protected]
Dharma Computers(p) Ltd.
Bangalore.

Oracle Backup tools

Hi Experts,
Plz guide me which is the best third party tool for backup & recover of database in Oracle and where can i get the trail version of this tool.
Thanx in Advance
Mani

Most people use RMAN nowadays, I don't think you need any other third party tools to do Oracle backup. Most storage vendor will try to make their tools to be integrated with RMAN rather than come up a new tool.
When it comes to backup/recovery of Oracle database nobody can do a better job than Oracle itself.
http://download-west.oracle.com/docs/cd/B19306_01/backup.102/b14192/intro005.htm#sthref66

Oracle Third Party Backup tools

What are some third party backup programs that people are using with oracle these days? Also when using third party backup tools, do these tools shutdown the database while backing up? Does the Archive Log mode need to be enable as well? Not big on Oracle so simple answers would work.
thanks.

I wouls suggest to go with RMAN. it's best tool and free.....Best third party backup tool is BMC SQL Backtrack.

Is Oracle Secure Backup tool popularly used today?

Is Oracle Secure Backup tool popularly used today?
Which tap management tool is the most popularly used third-party software with Oracle database?

We use ARCServe for tape backups. Seems to function fine.

Backup tool (perl based)

Hi
I'm getting this database connection error only when trying to run cold backup on infrastructure. I have ORACLE_HOME, SID specified OK - I can tnsping the listener and I can sqlplus connect to the database.
It looks like RMAN is barfing on the first line of the script:-
shutdown immediate;
startup mount ;
configure controlfile autobackup on;
because it is quite happy executing other RMAN commads such as :-
configure controlfile autobackup on;
configure controlfile autobackup format for device type disk to
..when not doing cold backups..
The error is:-
Recovery Manager: Release 9.0.1.5.1 - Production
(c) Copyright 2001 Oracle Corporation. All rights reserved.
RMAN-00571: ===========================================================
RMAN-00569: =============== ERROR MESSAGE STACK FOLLOWS ===============
RMAN-00571: ===========================================================
RMAN-00579: the following error occurred at 05/27/2005 08:44:54
RMAN-00554: initialization of internal recovery manager package failed
RMAN-04005: error from target database: ORA-12560: TNS:protocol adapter error
Anything obvious I can check? I can't see where RMAN is doing the connect as sysdba to be able to shut down the db
Thanks in advance
Chris

Got the answer, thanks for the replies. The system manager had been told to shut down the DB prior to running the perl script! Hence, the error.
What's the feeling about shuttting down the listener prior to running the backup tool in cold backup mode? I can't see it mentioned in the 9.0.4 doc but I could be wrong. I would think the listener would reestablish connection to the db once RMAN brings it back up but it seems that if it is not using tnsnames to connect, we could bring down the listener prior to running the backup tool?
Chris

RMAN Backup error with Symantec Backup Tool

Hi
My Environment
OS Windows server 2003 R2
Oracle 10G R2 10.2.03 2 node RAC
When i am taking backup maually in the command prompt with RMAN, it is successful, but when we are trying from Symantec Backup tool we are getting errors like
RMAN 03002 failur of Backup lus archivelog is problem,
RMAN 10015 error compiling PL/SQL programme
RMAN 10033 error during compilation of job step2
Ora 00603 Oracle server session terminate by fatal error.
Ora 004030 out of process memory when trying to allocate 4120 bytes(pl/sql) MPCODE,BAMMA, BAM Buffer)
So please tell me why its giving the error with Symatntec and why when i am doing manually it is successfull.
What could be the solution, please we are taking daily and weekly backups with Symantec on HP tape library. Please suggest me to the needful.
Immediate reply highly apperciated
Thanks
Edited by: 873393 on Apr 17, 2012 10:09 AM

Hello,
Ora 00603 Oracle server session terminate by fatal error.
Ora 004030 out of process memory when trying to allocate 4120 bytes(pl/sql) MPCODE,BAMMA, BAM Buffer) The ORA-04030 error message is interesting. It means that the OS doesn't have enough memory for Oracle.
So you may monitore the Memory usage of the Server during the Symantec Backup, and check for any activity. May be the Symantec Backup runs when other Batch Jobs use already a lot of memory . You may also have to extend the RAM of the Server.
Also, check for the RMAN script used by Symantec and compare with the "manual" script. May be, some options are used with Symantec and consume more resources on the Server.
Hope this help.
Best regards,
Jean-Valentin

Never worked on Non-RMAN Backup tools

I have never worked on Non-RMAN backup tools. I have only worked on databases which are below 1 TB in size. If you have an Oracle 10GR2 Database which is 5 TB in size, would you still recommend RMAN for it?
Do third party tools use RMAN internally ie integrated to it?

My production DB is 800gb in size and it takes 3.5 hours to take a full backup in compressed mode. This means , it will take around 15 hours to backup a 5TB database !!
Hi Jack,
You are not obliged to do full backups with RMAN. You can use this strategy for example :
http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/B19306_01/backup.102/b14192/bkup004.htm#sthref412
You will have a fist full backup (image copy) to do but after that only incremental backups will be done. Much space is needed of course but it works well.
Best regards
Phil

RAC RMAN BACKUP Recovery FOR Oracle APPS Application

Hi,
We have an Application which is similar to Oracle APPs application and We have a RAC Database at Backend.
As I am a Oracle RAC DBA and never worked as an Oracle apps DBA.
Each Week or month We have to deploy a patch on Our Database which are kind of sql changes to Database and before we applying we need to backup our Database.
I am very comfortable while applying patches on Single instance Database:-
I Usually shutdown my database and backing up My Database(Conistent\cold Backup) before applying patch.
and I have a Flash back on both option I am having for my Database.
Problem:-
But in Production I have RAC Database, on which I already configured Hot Backup.
FlashBackup Feature is there with me, but Not reliable.
I want cold backup along with my existing hot backup, and want to restore same if something goes wrong.
Since ASM is configured so we have only option RMAN backup.
IF possible kindly Share your knowledge and Experience of your to handle Such Problem.

Sir,
RMAN is already configured for backing up database online.
My only intention is to have cold or consistent backup before applying application patch, So that at the time of crisis I will resotre my Cold/Conistent backup.
Because I am using 11gr2 RAC with ASM, so only option is there for me to use rman as backup tool.
But I never tried to Have Cold backup in RAC environment in my previous jobs, and I am new to this Oracle APPS DBA technology. So Here I am looking for a Strategy that Normally oracle apps dba use while applying patch to Oracle Database and kind of backup strategy they use.
Regards
Gaurav

Is the iCloud a backup tool for your computer? How do I get my data back -- off the iCloud?

Is the iCloud a backup tool for your computer? ---- Apple care suggested using iCloud for a backup to my documents. I do not have an iphone, ipad or laptop. Just an iMac. Nothing to share the data with.
Now I am unable to access some of my documents on my computer and saving documents is cumbersome because it always wants to save it in iCloud, not my computer. The documents I am unable to open are my old MS-Word. One is a macro enabled word doc. I am using os x mountain lion.
After over an hour chat with apple care, the issue is not resolved. I did not have more time to resolve the issue today and it will be continued next week. Per apple care, I do not have any documents in the iCloud however I am almost at the free capacity with contacts and documents.
My question is -- If I purchase backup from a clould provider - other than apple, back up my files in documents in their cloud (make sure I can open them) and then delete the link to iCloud. Would I preserve my data? Has anyone tried this? I am open to suggestions.
Thanks,
Phyllis

Is the iCloud a backup tool for your computer? ---- Apple care suggested using iCloud for a backup to my documents.
Not really. You can store "Documents in the Cloud" but this applies only to documents created by Pages, Numbers, Preview, Keynote, and Microsoft Office documents created on your computer stored in iCloud's "iWork". Within that limited purpose, iCloud works very well.
My question is -- If I purchase backup from a clould provider - other than apple, back up my files in documents in their cloud (make sure I can open them) and then delete the link to iCloud. Would I preserve my data?
I'm not quite sure I understand what you mean by "purchase backup from a cloud provider" but if you're considering a service such as Carbonite, I don't advocate any of them. To back up your Mac, use your own backup device - Time Capsule or an external hard disk. It's inexpensive and reliable: two elements essential for a backup strategy, that no subscription service can offer.

Time Capsule and Windows 7 backup tool

So I own a TC that works excellent with my Mac Books. Now that I have my Mac's all backed up with TC I want to cover myself on my W7 machine. After doing some reading I found that W7 has a backup tool thank can backup to an external drive or network drive. I attached a drive to my TC and want to backup my W7 system to that. There seems to be some setting involved so before I start messing around has anyone done this yet and can confirm it works well? The last thing I want to do is mess with backups.

doesnt work for me, its a real dealbreaker.
I've tried manually adding and editing the lmcompatability registry key, mapping via explorer, mapping via net use, browsing via unc, tried with airport config software and without, mapped via IP and mapped via hostname.
The thing is just flakey and doesnt work.
I've tried firmware 7.4, 7.41 and 7.42. As you say, 7.3 is no-go with a dualband.
The problem for me isn't mapping the drive, but using it once it's mapped. files and folders fail to copy, stuff doesn't always delete, drive sometimes becomes unavailable. The TC is solid otherwise.
There has to be another registry setting to change somewhere though hopefully. Either that or they've tightened the security within win7 to the point of no return for some legacy stuff.

Long-term retention backup strategy for Oracle 10g

Hello,
I need design a Archivelog, Level 0 and Level 1 long-term retention backup strategy for Oracle 10g, It must be based in Rman with tapes.
¿Somebody could tell me what it's the best option to configure long-term retention backups in Oracle?, "CONFIGURE RETENTION POLICY TO RECOVERY WINDOW OF 1825 DAYS;" It's posibble ?
Regards and thanks in advance

Hello;
RECOVERY WINDOW is an integer so yes its possible. Does it make sense?
Later My bad, this is Oracle 11 only ( the gavinsoorma link ) . Getting harder and harder to think about 10. Don't think I would use RECOVERY WINDOW.
I would let the tape backup system handle the retention of your rman backups.
Using crosscheck and delete expired commands you can keep the catalog current with the available backups on tape.
Oracle 10
Keeping a Long-Term Backup: Example
http://docs.oracle.com/cd/B19306_01/backup.102/b14191/rcmbackp.htm#i1006840
http://web.njit.edu/info/oracle/DOC/backup.102/b14191/advmaint005.htm
Oracle 11
If you want to keep 5 years worth of backups I might just use KEEP specific date using the UNTIL TIME clause :
keep until time 'sysdate+1825'More info :
RMAN KEEP FOREVER, KEEP UNTIL TIME and FORCE commands
http://gavinsoorma.com/2010/04/rman-keep-forever-keep-until-time-and-force-commands/
Best Regards
mseberg
Edited by: mseberg on Dec 4, 2012 7:20 AM

Backup problem of Oracle XE

Hi,
Greetings.
OS: windows XP
DB: Oracle 10g xe
I wanted to backup the xe database.
Firstly, I chose the simplest way according to the 2day DBA, clicking the "*backup database*" menu item.
But I only got a popup dialog, showing messages like "*The NTVDM CPU has encountered an illegal instruction.*"
I failed to solve this problem and the program terminated always.
So, if someone has any idea about this, please help me. I really want to use this simplest way.
Then, I had to use the backup.bat script in D:\oraclexe\app\oracle\product\10.2.0\server\BIN from a cmd.exe window.
This time, I got error message below.
As I am a newbie of Oracle Db, I am really confused by the errors.
Could someone help me solve this?
++sql statement: create pfile=''D:\ORACLEXE\APP\ORACLE\PRODUCT\10.2.0\SERVER\DATABASE\SPFILE2INIT.ORA'' from spfile++
++RMAN-00571: ===========================================================++
++RMAN-00569: =============== ERROR MESSAGE STACK FOLLOWS ===============++
++RMAN-00571: ===========================================================++
++RMAN-03009: failure of sql command on default channel at 11/24/2010 16:36:12++
++RMAN-11003: failure during parse/execution of SQL statement: create pfile='D:\ORACLEXE\APP\ORACLE\PRODUCT\10.2.0\SERVER\'++
++DATABASE\SPFILE2INIT.ORA' from spfile++
++ORA-27041: unable to open file++
++OSD-04002: unable to open file++
++O/S-Error: (OS 2) The system cannot find the file specified.++
FYI, the whole output of running the backup.bat script is below,
D:\oraclexe\app\oracle\product\10.2.0\server\BIN>Backup.bat
Warning: Log archiving (ARCHIVELOG mode) is currently disabled. If
you restore the database from this backup, any transactions that take
place between this backup and the next backup will be lost. It is
recommended that you enable ARCHIVELOG mode before proceeding so
that all transactions can be recovered upon restore. See the section
+'Enabling ARCHIVELOG Mode...' in the online help for instructions.+
Backup with log archiving disabled will shut down and restart the
+database. Are you sure [Y/N]? y+
Backup in progress...
Recovery Manager: Release 10.2.0.1.0 - Production on Wed Nov 24 16:35:37 2010
Copyright (c) 1982, 2005, Oracle. All rights reserved.
connected to target database: XE (DBID=2604187256, not open)
RMAN> set echo on;
+2> shutdown immediate;+
+3> startup mount;+
+4> configure controlfile autobackup format for device type disk clear;+
+5> configure retention policy to redundancy 2;+
+6> configure controlfile autobackup on;+
+7> sql "create pfile=''D:\ORACLEXE\APP\ORACLE\PRODUCT\10.2.0\SERVER\DATABASE\SPFILE2INIT.ORA'' from spfile";+
+8> backup as backupset device type disk database;+
+9> configure controlfile autobackup off;+
+10> alter database open;+
+11> delete noprompt obsolete;+
+12>+
echo set on
using target database control file instead of recovery catalog
database dismounted
Oracle instance shut down
connected to target database (not started)
Oracle instance started
database mounted
Total System Global Area     805306368 bytes
Fixed Size                     1289996 bytes
Variable Size                209715444 bytes
Database Buffers             591396864 bytes
Redo Buffers                   2904064 bytes
RMAN configuration parameters are successfully reset to default value
old RMAN configuration parameters:
CONFIGURE RETENTION POLICY TO REDUNDANCY 2;
new RMAN configuration parameters:
CONFIGURE RETENTION POLICY TO REDUNDANCY 2;
new RMAN configuration parameters are successfully stored
old RMAN configuration parameters:
CONFIGURE CONTROLFILE AUTOBACKUP ON;
new RMAN configuration parameters:
CONFIGURE CONTROLFILE AUTOBACKUP ON;
new RMAN configuration parameters are successfully stored
sql statement: create pfile=''D:\ORACLEXE\APP\ORACLE\PRODUCT\10.2.0\SERVER\DATABASE\SPFILE2INIT.ORA'' from spfile
RMAN-00571: ===========================================================
RMAN-00569: =============== ERROR MESSAGE STACK FOLLOWS ===============
RMAN-00571: ===========================================================
RMAN-03009: failure of sql command on default channel at 11/24/2010 16:36:12
RMAN-11003: failure during parse/execution of SQL statement: create pfile='D:\ORACLEXE\APP\ORACLE\PRODUCT\10.2.0\SERVER\
DATABASE\SPFILE2INIT.ORA' from spfile
ORA-27041: unable to open file
OSD-04002: unable to open file
O/S-Error: (OS 2) The system cannot find the file specified.
Recovery Manager complete.
+==================== ERROR =============================+
Backup of the database failed.
RMAN Error - See log for details .
Log file is at D:\ORACLEXE\APP\ORACLE\PRODUCT\10.2.0\SERVER\DATABASE\OXE_BACKUP_CURRENT.LOG.
+==================== ERROR =============================+
Press any key to continue . . .
Edited by: 815223 on Nov 24, 2010 9:37 PM

I am really confused by the errorsYes that is understandable, for first timers in oracle the environment can be intimidating, its not easy interpreting the errors and knowing what the system is trying to tell you.
The rman backup utility pretty much works "out of the box" with defaults for most everything. And the XE installs a database, its "out of the box" defaults are noarchivelog mode, and changing that is easy (well, after its done it seems that way ;) )
First off, looks like the database wasn't running when the backup started, note the "connected to target database: XE (DBID=2604187256, *not open*)". Check the services applet and see if the database service is running- a shortcut to get there is Start/Run and type in services.msc.
Installer adds about 5 service entries, the database service is called OracleServiceXE, if its not showing a "Running" left click it to highlight the entry, and click the Start Service button.
Now try the SQL statement that the backup.bat is trying to run, its just making a pfile backup of the server parameter file- in a command box (Start/Run type in cmd) run sqlplus and connect sysdba, try a variation on pfile backup (i.e. if you have a d:\temp folder, or adjust as appropriate):
$ sqlplus /nolog
SQL>connect /as sysdba;
... Connected ...
SQL> create pfile='d:\temp\initXE_bkup.ora' from spfile;
...That will give you a backup parameter file, so if something happens to the server parameter file (i.e a parameter is set incorrectly in the spfile) you should be able to get past a startup problem via startup specifying that pfile:
SQL>connect /as sysdba;
... Connected ...
SQL> shutdown immediate;
... database unmounted ... database closed ...
SQL> startup pfile='d:\temp\initXE_bkup.ora';
... database open ...
SQL> shutdown immediate;
SQL> startup;
... database open ...The startup by itself will use the instance spfile. Or a startup mount; is the first part of changing to archivelog mode. However, comma, if a location for the archivelog files isn't set the database uses the flash recovery area, its good practice to create a folder for archivelog files and set the logfile destination and a format for the logfile names.
And the 2 day DBA doc, backup and recovery chapter, is a good place to get more info on managing backups http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/B25329_01/doc/admin.102/b25107/backrest.htm#i1004902

Kindly suggest oracle automation testing tools supporting oracle 10g forms

Hi,
We would like to automate oracle 10g forms in our company. kindly suggest oracle automation tools supporting oracle 10g forms other than OATS.
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how to take a backup manually in oracle 11g express edition? i want to take backup of a database and want to restore later on on a different computer .

Stop database, and copy all files to another machine.That sounds to me to be the closest answer to the question posted. And perhaps the easiest solution.
Install XE on the "another machine", shut it down. Shutdown the source database. Copy the datafiles to the new host. Startup your "new" database, it will be an exact clone of the original.
To find out what files need to be copied, as system (or sysdba) run:
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alter database backup controlfile to trace [reset logs];
show parameter diag;
... diagnostic_dest ... <drive:>|/diag_pathTo do a proper database clone its better to recreate the controlfile and reset the archive sequence number- leave out the controlfile copy part. In the diag_path location find the trace file under diag/rdbms/$ORACLE_SID/<db_name>/trace it should be the latest ora*.trc file.
The trace file has the commands to recreate the controlfile, which includes the datafiles and putting the tempfile back in place. If the datafiles are in a different location, i.e. in Windows going to a different drive, or you want do put datafiles in a different folder location, the create controlfile statement is the easiest time to get the file directories right.
If you add the "reset logs" qualifier (don't use the brackets!) you'll get just the reset logs version of the create controlfile statement, otherwise you'll get both NORESETLOGS and RESETLOGS versions of a create controlfile statement, run one or the other. Not both. Not the entire trace file, just the create controlfile, alter database open [reset logs], alter tablespace temp add tempfile ... bits. No recovery is needed for a database that is shutdown when datafiles get copied to a new location/host.

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