Backups on Physical standby database?

Question

I am using dataguard and a physical standby database.How to assign backups on physical standby database to reduce the load on Primary database.
environment: windows
Database version:11.2.0.1.0
What are the pro and cons on assigning RMAN backups jobs to physical standby database?

Answer 1

Is it better to assign the RMAN backups on standby?i am using the RMAN catalog.Yes, Already mentioned to reduce contention on primary. You can register even standby.
Do i need to change the setting to backup archive logs from standby database? If i won't backup the archive logs on Primary the FRA will be full and i can't access it ?You can include even archive logs with your database backup.
How to assign the archive logs backups,full backup on standby database?Same script will work, Before that cancel MRP and after backup start MRP. That should be fine.
Recently i tested backup from standby and restore, Please see below log.
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Backup Scrpts:-
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RMAN> run
2> 3> ALLOCATE CHANNEL dev11 type disk;
4> backup as compressed backupset
5> format '/home/oracle/backup/DBF_FULLCOLD_BKP_%s'
6> filesperset 30
7> (database);
backup current controlfile format
8> 9> '/home/oracle/backup/CTL_FULLCOLD_BKP_%s';
RELEASE CHANNEL dev1;
RELEASE CHANNEL dev2;
10> 11> 12> }
using target database control file instead of recovery catalog
allocated channel: dev11
channel dev11: SID=1 device type=DISK
Starting backup at 03-FEB-13
Starting implicit crosscheck backup at 03-FEB-13
Finished implicit crosscheck backup at 03-FEB-13
Starting implicit crosscheck copy at 03-FEB-13
Crosschecked 4 objects
Finished implicit crosscheck copy at 03-FEB-13
searching for all files in the recovery area
channel dev11: starting compressed full datafile backup set
channel dev11: specifying datafile(s) in backup set
input datafile file number=00001 name=/u01/app/oracle/oradata/orcl/system01.dbf
input datafile file number=00002 name=/u01/app/oracle/oradata/orcl/sysaux01.dbf
input datafile file number=00003 name=/u01/app/oracle/oradata/orcl/undotbs01.dbf
input datafile file number=00004 name=/u01/app/oracle/oradata/orcl/users01.dbf
channel dev11: starting piece 1 at 03-FEB-13
channel dev11: starting compressed full datafile backup set
channel dev11: specifying datafile(s) in backup set
input datafile file number=00001 name=/u01/app/oracle/oradata/orcl/system01.dbf
input datafile file number=00002 name=/u01/app/oracle/oradata/orcl/sysaux01.dbf
input datafile file number=00003 name=/u01/app/oracle/oradata/orcl/undotbs01.dbf
input datafile file number=00004 name=/u01/app/oracle/oradata/orcl/users01.dbf
channel dev11: starting piece 1 at 03-FEB-13
channel dev11: finished piece 1 at 03-FEB-13
piece handle=/home/oracle/backup/DBF_FULLCOLD_BKP_23 tag=TAG20130203T192535 comment=NONE
channel dev11: backup set complete, elapsed time: 00:03:57
channel dev11: starting compressed full datafile backup set
channel dev11: specifying datafile(s) in backup set
including current control file in backup set
channel dev11: starting piece 1 at 03-FEB-13
channel dev11: finished piece 1 at 03-FEB-13
piece handle=/home/oracle/backup/DBF_FULLCOLD_BKP_24 tag=TAG20130203T192535 comment=NONE
channel dev11: backup set complete, elapsed time: 00:00:02
Finished backup at 03-FEB-13
Starting backup at 03-FEB-13
channel dev11: starting full datafile backup set
channel dev11: specifying datafile(s) in backup set
including current control file in backup set
channel dev11: starting piece 1 at 03-FEB-13
channel dev11: finished piece 1 at 03-FEB-13
piece handle=/home/oracle/backup/CTL_FULLCOLD_BKP_25 tag=TAG20130203T192939 comment=NONE
channel dev11: backup set complete, elapsed time: 00:00:03
Finished backup at 03-FEB-13
released channel: dev11
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Backup Files:-
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[oracle@oracle-stby backup]$ ls -ltr
total 364572
-rw-r----- 1 oracle oinstall 361684992 Feb  3 19:29 DBF_FULLCOLD_BKP_23
-rw-r----- 1 oracle oinstall   1163264 Feb  3 19:29 DBF_FULLCOLD_BKP_24
-rw-r----- 1 oracle oinstall  10092544 Feb  3 19:29 CTL_FULLCOLD_BKP_25
[oracle@oracle-stby backup]$
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Restore CONTROL FILE:-
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RMAN> restore controlfile from '/home/oracle/backup/CTL_FULLCOLD_BKP_25';
Starting restore at 03-FEB-13
using target database control file instead of recovery catalog
allocated channel: ORA_DISK_1
channel ORA_DISK_1: SID=19 device type=DISK
channel ORA_DISK_1: restoring control file
channel ORA_DISK_1: restore complete, elapsed time: 00:00:03
output file name=/u02/app/oracle/oradata/orcl/control01.ctl
output file name=/u02/app/oracle/flash_recovery_area/orcl/control02.ctl
Finished restore at 03-FEB-13
RMAN> sql 'alter database mount';
sql statement: alter database mount
released channel: ORA_DISK_1
RMAN>
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Restore Database:-
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RMAN> restore database;
Starting restore at 03-FEB-13
Starting implicit crosscheck backup at 03-FEB-13
allocated channel: ORA_DISK_1
channel ORA_DISK_1: SID=19 device type=DISK
Crosschecked 2 objects
using channel ORA_DISK_1
channel ORA_DISK_1: starting datafile backup set restore
channel ORA_DISK_1: specifying datafile(s) to restore from backup set
channel ORA_DISK_1: restoring datafile 00001 to /u01/app/oracle/oradata/orcl/system01.dbf
channel ORA_DISK_1: restoring datafile 00002 to /u01/app/oracle/oradata/orcl/sysaux01.dbf
channel ORA_DISK_1: restoring datafile 00003 to /u01/app/oracle/oradata/orcl/undotbs01.dbf
Sun Feb 03 19:37:47 2013
Checker run found 4 new persistent data failures
Sun Feb 03 19:38:40 2013
Full restore complete of datafile 3 /u01/app/oracle/oradata/orcl/undotbs01.dbf.  Elapsed time: 0:00:56
  checkpoint is 1595132
  last deallocation scn is 1519218
  channel ORA_DISK_1: piece handle=/home/oracle/backup/DBF_FULLCOLD_BKP_23 tag=TAG20130203T192535
channel ORA_DISK_1: restored backup piece 1
channel ORA_DISK_1: restore complete, elapsed time: 00:02:07
Finished restore at 03-FEB-13
RMAN>
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Open Database:-
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SQL> alter database open resetlogs;
Database altered.
SQL> select open_mode,database_role from v$database;
OPEN_MODE            DATABASE_ROLE
READ WRITE           PRIMARY
SQL>Edited by: CKPT on Feb 21, 2013 11:24 PM