Database tape backup

Hi All,
I am trying to backup the database using tar command on tape storage.
server is sun solaris and tape storage is LTO4 (1.7TB)
I want to tar with zip directly to the tape but couldn't find any option in solaris to zip with tar like we are having ( tar -cvzf in linux).
could anyone please guide me how to achieve that?
if i have to use unix PIPE (|) with the tar command to take it directly to tape then what should be the command?
Thanks

No, OSB has nothing to do with whether the database backup is hot or cold.....you can backup both hot or cold using OSB.
OSB is a centralized tape backup management software for protecting both file system data and the Oracle database. For Oracle database backups, OSB is integrated with Recovery Manager (RMAN). By using OSB, you will achieve an integrated Oracle database backup to tape.
You can obtain more information on OSB at the website:
http://www.oracle.com/technology/products/secure-backup/index.html
Donna

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Restore controlfile from tape backup without autobackup setting on

I am testing a scenraio of restoring control file if we loose all control files.
My RMAN settings for CONTROLFILE AUTOBACKUP is OFF. But, I have taken a backup of controlfile using 'BACKUP CURRENT CONTROL FILE' .
When I tried to restore control file. I am receiving following error:
RMAN> run {
2> allocate channel c101 type sbt_tape;
3> restore controlfile ;
4> }
allocated channel: c101
channel c101: sid=153 devtype=SBT_TAPE
channel c101: VERITAS NetBackup for Oracle - Release 6.0 (2006110304)
Starting restore at 24-MAY-2007 13:44:59
using channel ORA_DISK_1
RMAN-00571: ===========================================================
RMAN-00569: =============== ERROR MESSAGE STACK FOLLOWS ===============
RMAN-00571: ===========================================================
RMAN-03002: failure of restore command at 05/24/2007 13:44:59
RMAN-06563: control file or SPFILE must be restored using FROM AUTOBACKUP
My question is, How can I restore control file from tape backup without CONTROLFILE AUTOBACKUP setting ON.
It sounds like, There is no way we can restore control file from tape backup if you've not set the CONTROLFILE AUTOBACKUP is ON.
Please advice

When all controlfiles are lost and a recovery catalog is NOT used, RMAN has no information , where to find the controlfile backup. It's not enough to specify the channel, such a channel could hold many different backups from many different databases. You have tell , which database and which backupset. Modify your run block:
SET DBID <DBID of the database,for which you want to restore the controlfile>;
RESTORE CONTROLFILE FROM <name_of_backupiece_which_contains_the_controlfile backup>';
Werner

Restore ( duplicate) db from tape backup from one server to another server

I am looking for step by step process to restore (duplicate)db from tape backup from one server to another server
Thanks

Creating a Duplicate Database on a Remote Host will provide all the information.

Restore controlfile from leagato tape backup

I am using legato tool to perform rman tape backup.
I use the following script on legato to get the controlfile backup.
"backup current controlfile format '%d_%s_%p.ctrl'; "
If I lost the controlfile how do i restore controlfile from the tape. Assume that the DB in nomount stage.

Hi,
backing up autobackup controlfiles to legato is possible. All you have to do is to configure autobackup accordingly. By default autobackup controlfiles will get written to disk.
However i strongly recommend to use a rman backup catalog. This will save you a lot of time consuming trouble if you need to restore your database.
The rman catalog database itself does not need any license and is rather small (5 GB on disk, 512 MB memory).
Restoring the control file will be something like this:
set controlfile autobackup format for device type sbt to '%F';
restore controlfile from autobackup;
Ronny Egner
My Blog: http://blog.ronnyegner-consulting.de

Restore from Tape Backup

Hi All,
Oracle Ver. 10.2.0.4 on Sun-Solaris 9.
Need to do a restore and recover on the DR site using the tape backups from production site.
The path and file names are same in both sites.
In the DR site only the Oracle server software is installed. There are no oracle files/database.
Will a incomplete recovery solve the issue?
What will be the steps in RMAN.?

Hi,
If you know the location of the controlfile autobackup than
restore the spfile and controlfile first.
Than mount the controlfile and restore and recover the database to a PIT, sequence or SCN.
You can find a lot of examples of commands in this forum.
Regards,
Tycho

Cloning DB on a different server from RMAN Tape backup

RDBMS version           : 11.2.0.2 on Solaris 10
Media Management Layer : Netbackup v7
I have done only backups to Tape. I have never done restore,recovery from Tape.
We have a production DB named NEHPROD running on server qualmh214. Every Monday morning an RMAN Full backup for NEHPROD is taken to Tape.
Production server : qualmh214        DB Name:NEHPROD
run
ALLOCATE CHANNEL c1 TYPE 'SBT_TAPE';
SEND 'NB_ORA_CLIENT=qualmh214,NB_ORA_POLICY=qualmh214_rman,NB_ORA_SERV=qualmh238,NB_ORA_SCHED=Daily';
backup database   FORMAT 'NEHPROD_%d_%U_%t.rbk' tag='NEHPROD_full';
}I need to create a Test DB in a different server (qualmh199) by restoring directly from NEHPROD's Full backup in tape .
From qualmh199, how can I connect to the Tape Media server ?
Even If I do connect to the Tape media server, how can i get access to tape backups of another DB? In the RMAN run block you can't specify a DB name. Right?
Even if I get access to another DB's backup , How can i specify which Date's Full backup I need to use to restore ?

From qualmh199, how can I connect to the Tape Media server ?You have to allocate channels to tape & need to mention NB parameters as example below.
in RMAN script
ALLOCATE CHANNEL CH1 DEVICE TYPE SBT_TAPE PARMS 'SBT_LIBRARY=/usr/openv/netbackup/bin/libobk.so64';
SEND 'NB_ORA_SERV=<server.com>, NB_ORA_CLIENT=<target.server>';
Even If I do connect to the Tape media server, how can i get access to tape backups of another DB? In the RMAN run block you can't specify a DB name. Right?If the libraries are installed and you able to perform, you can go for either duplicate database or simple RMAN restore. You can mention other DB names also
Ex: duplicate target database to 'test';
Even if I get access to another DB's backup , How can i specify which Date's Full backup I need to use to restore ?You can mention TAG's if you are using RMAN restore.

DPM 2012 R2 crashes during tape backup for a specific server

Hi Community,
A customer of ours is experiencing an issue with DPM crashing after a period of time when backing up a large protection group to tape.
Customer is running DPM 2012 R2 URE 5
Upon looking in the DPM Logs, we see the following error, immediately prior to the system crashing.
MSDPMCurr.errlog
0968 29A8 04/08 12:41:48.218 28 MediaPool.cs(350) NORMAL Found PGSetId a914779a-8847-40e5-90fd-a1ca6cffee05 for MediaPoolId e10c1280-445f-4454-8edd-0cb3c1113c27
0968 29A8 04/08 12:41:48.221 28 MediaPool.cs(329) WARNING MediaPool 00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000 does not exist.
0968 29A8 04/08 12:41:48.236 68 DpmThreadPool.cs(121) WARNING Caught unhandled exception : Microsoft.Internal.EnterpriseStorage.Dls.Utils.MediaPoolNotFoundException: Media pool 00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000 not found in the database.
0968 29A8 04/08 12:41:48.236 68 DpmThreadPool.cs(121) WARNING at Microsoft.Internal.EnterpriseStorage.Dls.MMDatabase.MediaPool.GetPGSetIdForMediaPool(DbContext sqlContext, Guid mediaPoolId)
0968 29A8 04/08 12:41:48.236 68 DpmThreadPool.cs(121) WARNING at Microsoft.Internal.EnterpriseStorage.Dls.MMDatabase.MediaPool.IsMediaPoolCollocated(DbContext sqlContext, Guid mediaPoolId)
0968 29A8 04/08 12:41:48.236 68 DpmThreadPool.cs(121) WARNING at Microsoft.Internal.EnterpriseStorage.Dls.MMDatabase.ArchiveMedia.IsMediaCollocated(DbContext sqlContext)
0968 29A8 04/08 12:41:48.236 68 DpmThreadPool.cs(121) WARNING at Microsoft.Internal.EnterpriseStorage.Dls.MMDatabase.ArchiveMedia.CheckAndRaiseOffsiteReadyEvent(DbContext sqlContext, Boolean considerOfflineMedia)
0968 29A8 04/08 12:41:48.236 68 DpmThreadPool.cs(121) WARNING at Microsoft.Internal.EnterpriseStorage.Dls.MMDatabase.Dataset.RaiseMediaOffsiteReadyEvent(DbContext sqlContext)
0968 29A8 04/08 12:41:48.236 68 DpmThreadPool.cs(121) WARNING at Microsoft.Internal.EnterpriseStorage.Dls.MMDatabase.Dataset.SetLifeStatus(DbContext sqlContext, DatasetLifeStatus lifeStatusPassed)
0968 29A8 04/08 12:41:48.236 68 DpmThreadPool.cs(121) WARNING at Microsoft.Internal.EnterpriseStorage.Dls.MMDatabase.TapeArchiveMedia.Reclaim(DbContext sqlContext)
0968 29A8 04/08 12:41:48.236 68 DpmThreadPool.cs(121) WARNING at Microsoft.Internal.EnterpriseStorage.Dls.MMDatabase.MMCatalog.ReclaimMedia(ArchiveMedia media)
0968 29A8 04/08 12:41:48.236 68 DpmThreadPool.cs(121) WARNING at Microsoft.Internal.EnterpriseStorage.Dls.MMInterface.ReserveResourcesForBackupHelper.GetRecycedUsableMedia(IList listOfMedia)
0968 29A8 04/08 12:41:48.236 68 DpmThreadPool.cs(121) WARNING at Microsoft.Internal.EnterpriseStorage.Dls.MMInterface.ReserveResourcesForBackupHelper.GetRecyclableMedia(MediaPool mediaPool)
0968 29A8 04/08 12:41:48.236 68 DpmThreadPool.cs(121) WARNING at Microsoft.Internal.EnterpriseStorage.Dls.MMInterface.ReserveResourcesForBackupHelper.GetMediaRequiredByArchiveTask(Guid expectedDriveId)
0968 29A8 04/08 12:41:48.236 68 DpmThreadPool.cs(121) WARNING at Microsoft.Internal.EnterpriseStorage.Dls.MMInterface.ReserveResourcesForBackupHelper.AllocateMedia(Guid expectedDriveId)
0968 29A8 04/08 12:41:48.236 68 DpmThreadPool.cs(121) WARNING at Microsoft.Internal.EnterpriseStorage.Dls.MMInterface.ReserveResourcesForBackupHelper.QueryResourcePreference()
0968 29A8 04/08 12:41:48.236 68 DpmThreadPool.cs(121) WARNING at Microsoft.Internal.EnterpriseStorage.Dls.MMDatabase.TaskElement.ReserveResources(Dictionary`2 libraryResourcesCache)
0968 29A8 04/08 12:41:48.236 68 DpmThreadPool.cs(121) WARNING at Microsoft.Internal.EnterpriseStorage.Dls.MMDatabase.JobElement.ReserveResourcesToOneTask(Dictionary`2 libraryResourcesCache)
0968 29A8 04/08 12:41:48.236 68 DpmThreadPool.cs(121) WARNING at Microsoft.Internal.EnterpriseStorage.Dls.MMDatabase.PriorityQueue.ServeTasksInQueue(Message msg, Boolean waitForResources)
0968 29A8 04/08 12:41:48.236 68 DpmThreadPool.cs(121) WARNING at Microsoft.Internal.EnterpriseStorage.Dls.MMCommonBlocks.ReserveResourcesBlock.DoServeTasksInQueueAndPostCheckMessage(Object msgObject)
0968 29A8 04/08 12:41:48.236 68 DpmThreadPool.cs(121) WARNING at Microsoft.Internal.EnterpriseStorage.Dls.EngineUICommon.DpmThreadPool.Function(Object state)
0968 29A8 04/08 12:41:48.236 68 DpmThreadPool.cs(121) WARNING at System.Threading.ExecutionContext.RunInternal(ExecutionContext executionContext, ContextCallback callback, Object state, Boolean preserveSyncCtx)
0968 29A8 04/08 12:41:48.236 68 DpmThreadPool.cs(121) WARNING at System.Threading.ExecutionContext.Run(ExecutionContext executionContext, ContextCallback callback, Object state, Boolean preserveSyncCtx)
0968 29A8 04/08 12:41:48.236 68 DpmThreadPool.cs(121) WARNING at System.Threading.QueueUserWorkItemCallback.System.Threading.IThreadPoolWorkItem.ExecuteWorkItem()
0968 29A8 04/08 12:41:48.236 68 DpmThreadPool.cs(121) WARNING at System.Threading.ThreadPoolWorkQueue.Dispatch()
0968 29A8 04/08 12:41:48.236 68 DpmThreadPool.cs(121) WARNING *** Mojito error was: MediaPoolNotFound; 0; None
0968 29A8 04/08 12:41:48.242 68 DpmThreadPool.cs(149) WARNING Attempting to write error to the event log Media pool 00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000 not found in the database.
0968 29A8 04/08 12:41:48.246 02 EventManager.cs(143) NORMAL Logging event to NT log from DpmThreadPool.cs(163): FatalServiceError
0968 29A8 04/08 12:41:48.267 68 DpmThreadPool.cs(170) WARNING Attempting to invoke Watson
0968 29A8 04/08 12:41:48.280 09 everettexception.cpp(761) CRITICAL Exception Message = Media pool 00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000 not found in the database. of type Microsoft.Internal.EnterpriseStorage.Dls.Utils.MediaPoolNotFoundException, process will terminate after generating dump
The server is part of a protection group that is co-located, I am trying the backup not as part of a co-located set to see if this makes any difference.
Tape backups for other servers, which are part of the same co-location group, work fine and it seems to be just this one causing the issue.
I have seen a few other posts on the net referencing "WARNING MediaPool 00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000 does not exist." where people have similar issue with DPM crashing out but so far nobody seems to have any answers.
I am debating removing the protection group and trying to 'start from scratch' but wondered if anyone else had any thoughts ?
Thanks in advance,
Ed

Hi,
Open SQL management studio and connect to the instance used by DPM.
Run the following Query against the DPMDB and see if it returns any rows, if so please provide the output.
select MP.mediapoolid, MP.PGSETID from dbo.tbl_MM_MediaPool MP
Join dbo.tbl_IM_ProtectedGroup PG on PG.ProtectedGroupId = MP.MediaPoolId
where PG.MediapoolId is NULL
and MP.PGSetId is not NULL
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Error in RMAN TAPE BACKUP

Dear Gurus,
I got the following error in RMAN TAPE backup.
RMAN-00571: ===========================================================
RMAN-00569: =============== ERROR MESSAGE STACK FOLLOWS ===============
RMAN-00571: ===========================================================
RMAN-03009: failure of delete command on default channel at 09/20/2011 02:36:58
ORA-15028: ASM file '+ASMFLASH/gcprod/archivelog/2011_09_15/thread_2_seq_55857.2176.761912673' not dropped; currently being accessed
RMAN>
Recovery Manager complete.my RMAN BACKUP Script is:
rman target sys/*****@gcprod1 nocatalog << EOF
spool log to $v_bdest/clean_catalog_TAPE.log append;
run {
allocate channel c1 type 'sbt_tape' parms
'ENV=(TDPO_OPTFILE=/usr/tivoli/tsm/client/oracle/bin64/tdpo.opt)';
#crosscheck backupset;
#crosscheck copy;
#crosscheck archivelog all;
# included on 21Jan2011 at 9:18 PM
#delete noprompt expired backup;
delete noprompt obsolete;
#delete noprompt expired archivelog all;
# included on 21Jan2011 at 9:18 PM
release channel c1;
exit
EOFMy RMAN RETENTION POLICY IS:
RMAN> show all;
RMAN configuration parameters are:
CONFIGURE RETENTION POLICY TO RECOVERY WINDOW OF 3 DAYS;
CONFIGURE BACKUP OPTIMIZATION OFF;
CONFIGURE DEFAULT DEVICE TYPE TO DISK;
CONFIGURE CONTROLFILE AUTOBACKUP ON;
CONFIGURE CONTROLFILE AUTOBACKUP FORMAT FOR DEVICE TYPE DISK TO '%F';
CONFIGURE DEVICE TYPE DISK PARALLELISM 1 BACKUP TYPE TO BACKUPSET;
CONFIGURE DATAFILE BACKUP COPIES FOR DEVICE TYPE DISK TO 1;
CONFIGURE ARCHIVELOG BACKUP COPIES FOR DEVICE TYPE DISK TO 1;
CONFIGURE MAXSETSIZE TO UNLIMITED;
CONFIGURE ENCRYPTION FOR DATABASE OFF;
CONFIGURE ENCRYPTION ALGORITHM 'AES128';
CONFIGURE ARCHIVELOG DELETION POLICY TO NONE;
CONFIGURE SNAPSHOT CONTROLFILE NAME TO '/oracle/app/oracle/product/10.2.0.1/db_1/dbs/snapcf_gcprod1.f';According to retention policy archivelogs of past 3 days should be present rest and all , i have written a script to delete and it is performing well from past 6 months, but now recently we got this error
we have enough archivelog space.
and the archive log pointing in this error is on 15th september archivelog.....today date is 20th september....
My archive log was stored in asm .... i went there and saw that still 15th september archivelogs are present there.
Please help me regarding this
Regards,
Vamsi.....

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FRA´s datafile directory and tape backups

Hi again,
I have tried to find relevant information for my question, but instead of finding answers (again) which may or may not be helpful I hope someone can explain me.
We are running 10Gr2 databases with FRA´s enabled, currently backupping all using Oracle´s suggested backup to Disk devices.
Since we have copies of the datafiles in the FRA which takes up quite some (productional) storage space we are asked to stop the Disk backups, and backup things up to the tape device, which underwater is a TSM library.
How would this affect the occupance of the FRA? Will the datafile directory in the FRA be moved to the "tape" device if we implement (solely) tape backups; or is it only the backupsets and autobackups which would then be moved to tape?
I have tried several setups for which I wanted to set the datafile, backupset and autobackup directory out of the FRA, but I have not found a (working) way yet to set the datafile directory apart from it.
Advice or help are greatly appreciated.
Robin

Changing the backup location from FRA to an external device will only effect backups (backupsets or image copies of datafiles,controlfiles,spfile,archivelogs). Possible (but not mandatory) components of FRA are archivelogs,backup pieces,controlfiles,online logs,image copies and flashback logs.
For performance reasons it's better to continue using the FRA as first backup device. Extend your backup strategy by backing the FRA itself to tape in regular intervals.
'BACKUP RECOVERY AREA' backs up recovery files created in the current and all previous flash recovery area destinations. Recovery files are full and incremental backup sets, control file autobackups, archived logs, and datafile copies. Flashback logs, the current control file, and online redo logs are not backed up.
The backup must go to a tape device, so RMAN issues an error if no sbt channels are allocated or configured.
Or use
'BACKUP RECOVERY FILES'. It backs up all recovery files on disk, whether they are stored in the flash recovery area or another locations on disk. Recovery files include full and incremental backup sets, control file autobackups, archived logs, and datafile copies.
Werner

DPM 2012 R2 Crashes after upgrade - Tape Backup

Hello guys,
I have recently upgraded from DPM 2012 SP1 to DPM 2012 R2 Rollup 3 on Windows 2012 R2 (in-place upgrade)
The basic procedure was to backup the DB, uninstall DPM, install DPM 2012 R2, restore the DB. re-sync all the inconsistent replicas and upgrade server agents. When it comes to the offsite tape backup for whatever reason every time the tape backup
commences it fails instantly with the below error and reports "Backup to Tape Failed"
"Event Log shows MSDPM Error ID 945"
It appears to be failing due to a missing stored procedure 'dbo.prc_SMTE_ComputeDailyTrend'. The stored procedure does not exist on other DPM servers. I'm guessing this is something hanging around in the DB from prior to the upgrade but I can't
seem to track it down. Does anyone have any ideas upon how to resolve the issue?
The description for Event ID 945 from source MSDPM cannot be found. Either the component that raises this event is not installed on your local computer or the installation is corrupted. You can install or repair the component on the local computer.
If the event originated on another computer, the display information had to be saved with the event.
The following information was included with the event:
Unable to connect to the DPM database because of a general database failure. Make sure that SQL Server is running and that it is configured correctly.
Problem Details:
<FatalServiceError><__System><ID>19</ID><Seq>84123</Seq><TimeCreated>25/10/2014 23:01:01</TimeCreated><Source>DpmThreadPool.cs</Source><Line>163</Line><HasError>True</HasError></__System><ExceptionType>SqlException</ExceptionType><ExceptionMessage>Could
not find stored procedure 'dbo.prc_SMTE_ComputeDailyTrend'.</ExceptionMessage><ExceptionDetails>System.Data.SqlClient.SqlException (0x80131904): Could not find stored procedure 'dbo.prc_SMTE_ComputeDailyTrend'.
   at Microsoft.Internal.EnterpriseStorage.Dls.SummaryManager.SummaryManagerMachine.OnStart(ErrorInfo& eInfo)
   at Microsoft.Internal.EnterpriseStorage.Dls.TaskExecutor.SimpleStateMachine.Start(Message msg)
   at Microsoft.Internal.EnterpriseStorage.Dls.TaskExecutor.Fsm.Engine.ChangeState(Message msg)
   at Microsoft.Internal.EnterpriseStorage.Dls.TaskExecutor.TaskInstance.Process(Object dummy)
   at Microsoft.Internal.EnterpriseStorage.Dls.TaskExecutor.FsmThreadFunction.Function(Object taskThreadContextObj)
   at System.Threading.ExecutionContext.RunInternal(ExecutionContext executionContext, ContextCallback callback, Object state, Boolean preserveSyncCtx)
   at System.Threading.ExecutionContext.Run(ExecutionContext executionContext, ContextCallback callback, Object state, Boolean preserveSyncCtx)
   at System.Threading.QueueUserWorkItemCallback.System.Threading.IThreadPoolWorkItem.ExecuteWorkItem()
   at System.Threading.ThreadPoolWorkQueue.Dispatch()
ClientConnectionId:fbd15cf8-5b7b-4438-befe-a3a54426d371</ExceptionDetails></FatalServiceError>

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Tape backups "stuck" in controlfile

At one point, there was a tape backup device configured and working. This tape device has since been removed, but there are still backups that were done to tape that are in the controlfile. These backups are quite old and rman knows they are obsolete, but it can't delete them, since the tape device (and channel) no longer exists.
I have tried many ways of trying to delete them, but I consistently end up with the same result of:
RMAN-00571: ===========================================================
RMAN-00569: =============== ERROR MESSAGE STACK FOLLOWS ===============
RMAN-00571: ===========================================================
RMAN-03002: failure of delete command at 09/11/2007 13:10:06
RMAN-06091: no channel allocated for maintenance (of an appropriate type)
I am able to allocate a channel type of disk, but not sbt because it is not there, so I am having trouble getting rid of these entries. Any help is appreciated. Here is my configuration:
RMAN> show all;
RMAN configuration parameters are:
CONFIGURE RETENTION POLICY TO REDUNDANCY 1; # default
CONFIGURE BACKUP OPTIMIZATION OFF;
CONFIGURE DEFAULT DEVICE TYPE TO DISK;
CONFIGURE CONTROLFILE AUTOBACKUP ON;
CONFIGURE CONTROLFILE AUTOBACKUP FORMAT FOR DEVICE TYPE DISK TO '%F'; # default
CONFIGURE DEVICE TYPE DISK BACKUP TYPE TO COMPRESSED BACKUPSET PARALLELISM 4;
CONFIGURE DATAFILE BACKUP COPIES FOR DEVICE TYPE DISK TO 1; # default
CONFIGURE ARCHIVELOG BACKUP COPIES FOR DEVICE TYPE DISK TO 1; # default
CONFIGURE CHANNEL 1 DEVICE TYPE DISK FORMAT '/backup1/oracle/%U';
CONFIGURE CHANNEL 2 DEVICE TYPE DISK FORMAT '/backup1/oracle/%U';
CONFIGURE CHANNEL 3 DEVICE TYPE DISK FORMAT '/backup1/oracle/%U';
CONFIGURE CHANNEL 4 DEVICE TYPE DISK FORMAT '/backup1/oracle/%U';
CONFIGURE MAXSETSIZE TO UNLIMITED; # default
CONFIGURE ENCRYPTION FOR DATABASE OFF; # default
CONFIGURE ENCRYPTION ALGORITHM 'AES128'; # default
CONFIGURE ARCHIVELOG DELETION POLICY TO NONE; # default
CONFIGURE SNAPSHOT CONTROLFILE NAME TO '/u01/app/oracle/product/10.2.0.2/dbs/snapcf_test1.f'; # default

I was encountering the same:
RMAN> delete obsolete;
RMAN retention policy will be applied to the command
RMAN retention policy is set to redundancy 1
allocated channel: ORA_DISK_1
channel ORA_DISK_1: sid=149 devtype=DISK
Deleting the following obsolete backups and copies:
Type Key Completion Time Filename/Handle
Backup Set 1385 17-DEC-09
Backup Piece 1385 17-DEC-09 BE_bcl15skg_1_1
Backup Set 1386 17-DEC-09
Backup Piece 1386 17-DEC-09 BE_bdl15sog_1_1
Backup Set 1387 17-DEC-09
Backup Piece 1387 17-DEC-09 BE_bel15t6o_1_1
Backup Set 1570 08-FEB-10
Backup Piece 1570 08-FEB-10 BE_h5l5hl8f_1_1
RMAN-00571: ===========================================================
RMAN-00569: =============== ERROR MESSAGE STACK FOLLOWS ===============
RMAN-00571: ===========================================================
RMAN-03002: failure of delete command at 02/18/2010 16:12:29
RMAN-06091: no channel allocated for maintenance (of an appropriate type)
RMAN> list backup summary;
List of Backups
===============
Key TY LV S Device Type Completion Time #Pieces #Copies Compressed Tag
1387 B 0 U SBT_TAPE 17-DEC-09 1 1 NO TAG20091217T230904
1390 B A U SBT_TAPE 18-DEC-09 1 1 NO TAG20091218T230709
1392 B 0 U SBT_TAPE 18-DEC-09 1 1 NO TAG20091218T231024
1393 B A U SBT_TAPE 18-DEC-09 1 1 NO TAG20091218T231803
1395 B A U SBT_TAPE 21-DEC-09 1 1 NO TAG20091221T230506
1397 B 0 U SBT_TAPE 21-DEC-09 1 1 NO TAG20091221T230700
1398 B A U SBT_TAPE 21-DEC-09 1 1 NO TAG20091221T231439
1564 B A U SBT_TAPE 05-FEB-10 1 1 NO TAG20100205T232055
1565 B F U SBT_TAPE 05-FEB-10 1 1 NO TAG20100205T232057
1566 B A U SBT_TAPE 08-FEB-10 1 1 NO TAG20100208T230856
1569 B A U SBT_TAPE 08-FEB-10 1 1 NO TAG20100208T231941
1570 B F U SBT_TAPE 08-FEB-10 1 1 NO TAG20100208T231943
RMAN> change backuppiece tag 'TAG20091217T230904' uncatalog;
uncataloged backuppiece
backup piece handle=BE_bel15t6o_1_1 recid=1387 stamp=705885402
uncataloged backuppiece
backup piece handle=BE_bdl15sog_1_1 recid=1386 stamp=705884946
Uncataloged 2 objects
RMAN> change backuppiece tag 'TAG20091218T230709' uncatalog;
uncataloged backuppiece
backup piece handle=BE_bhl18h1g_1_1 recid=1390 stamp=705971249
Uncataloged 1 objects
RMAN> change backuppiece tag 'TAG20100208T231943' uncatalog;
uncataloged backuppiece
backup piece handle=BE_h5l5hl8f_1_1 recid=1570 stamp=710464784
Uncataloged 1 objects
RMAN> list backup summary;
RMAN> list backup;
RMAN> list backupset;
RMAN> delete obsolete;
RMAN retention policy will be applied to the command
RMAN retention policy is set to redundancy 1
using channel ORA_DISK_1
Deleting the following obsolete backups and copies:
Type Key Completion Time Filename/Handle
Backup Set 1385 17-DEC-09
Backup Piece 1385 17-DEC-09 BE_bcl15skg_1_1
Backup Set 1388 17-DEC-09
Backup Piece 1388 17-DEC-09 BE_bfl15t70_1_1
Backup Set 1389 17-DEC-09
Backup Piece 1389 17-DEC-09 BE_bgl15t75_1_1
Backup Set 1394 18-DEC-09
Backup Piece 1394 18-DEC-09 BE_bll18hle_1_1
Backup Set 1399 21-DEC-09
Backup Piece 1399 21-DEC-09 BE_bql1gej1_1_1
Backup Set 1404 22-DEC-09
Backup Piece 1404 22-DEC-09 BE_bvl1j2ra_1_1
Backup Set 1409 23-DEC-09
Backup Piece 1409 23-DEC-09 BE_c4l1lnak_1_1
Backup Set 1414 24-DEC-09
Backup Piece 1414 24-DEC-09 BE_c9l1obqf_1_1
Backup Set 1419 25-DEC-09
Backup Piece 1419 25-DEC-09 BE_cel1r0a2_1_1
Backup Set 1424 28-DEC-09
Backup Piece 1424 28-DEC-09 BE_cjl22t64_1_1
RMAN-00571: ===========================================================
RMAN-00569: =============== ERROR MESSAGE STACK FOLLOWS ===============
RMAN-00571: ===========================================================
RMAN-03002: failure of delete command at 02/18/2010 16:15:05
RMAN-06091: no channel allocated for maintenance (of an appropriate type)
RMAN> change backuppiece 'BE_bcl15skg_1_1' unavailable;
changed backup piece unavailable
backup piece handle=BE_bcl15skg_1_1 recid=1385 stamp=705884819
Changed 1 objects to UNAVAILABLE status
RMAN> change backuppiece 'BE_bcl15skg_1_1' unavailable;
changed backup piece unavailable
backup piece handle=BE_bcl15skg_1_1 recid=1385 stamp=705884819
Changed 1 objects to UNAVAILABLE status
RMAN> change backuppiece 'BE_bcl15skg_1_1' uncatalog;
uncataloged backuppiece
backup piece handle=BE_bcl15skg_1_1 recid=1385 stamp=705884819
Uncataloged 1 objects
RMAN> change backuppiece 'BE_bfl15t70_1_1' uncatalog;
uncataloged backuppiece
backup piece handle=BE_bfl15t70_1_1 recid=1388 stamp=705885409
Uncataloged 1 objects
RMAN> delete obsolete ;
RMAN retention policy will be applied to the command
RMAN retention policy is set to redundancy 1
using channel ORA_DISK_1
no obsolete backups found
FINALLY FIXED!!!

RMAN with Netbackup - ALL Tape backups expired

Hello,
I am currently experiencing some issues between Netbackup and RMAN.
A bounce of the Netbackup server seems to have marked all our tape backups managed by RMAN as 'Expired'. This means RMAN can no longer locate any of the tape backups.
We have checked the rentention periods and the physical backups on the tapes and they seem to be ok. Therefore it would suggest a link problem between Netbackup and RMAN. We have tried bouncing the Netbackup servers again but this has not resolved the situation.
However sometimes the tape backups become available and but then become expired again.
I have also tried backing up to Tape since the bounce and the backup is successful, however 24 hours later it becomes expired despite Retention policy set to 4 weeks on both RMAN and Netbackup.
Please help!
Thank you

Hey;
I tried the delete obsolete; command initially. Admittedly, I didn't report that - so here's the output:
RMAN> delete obsolete;
using target database control file instead of recovery catalog
RMAN retention policy will be applied to the command
RMAN retention policy is set to recovery window of 3 days
allocated channel: ORA_DISK_1
channel ORA_DISK_1: sid=137 devtype=DISK
allocated channel: ORA_DISK_2
channel ORA_DISK_2: sid=132 devtype=DISK
Deleting the following obsolete backups and copies:
Type Key Completion Time Filename/Handle
Backup Set 6 10-SEP-09
Backup Piece 6 10-SEP-09 c-1369681761-20090910-00
RMAN-00571: ===========================================================
RMAN-00569: =============== ERROR MESSAGE STACK FOLLOWS ===============
RMAN-00571: ===========================================================
RMAN-03002: failure of delete command at 07/24/2010 21:36:58
RMAN-06091: no channel allocated for maintenance (of an appropriate type)
As for the changing default device type: someone had mentioned that the default device type was disk so I changed it to tape, tried the command, failed, then switched it back.
Just to reiterate: I don't have a tape drive on this box; never did. I'm not sure how two tape backups could have gotten there in the first place.
The oracle version is:
Oracle Database 10g Enterprise Edition Release 10.2.0.1.0 - 64bit Production
With the Partitioning, OLAP and Data Mining options
and the OS version is:
$ uname -r; cat /etc/redhat-release
2.6.18-128.el5xen
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 5.3 (Tikanga)
If push comes to shove, I can leave those two backups. There were a rather large number of them that I did successfully make go away. It just seems odd that I can't make these guys go away.
Thanks for the help; I appreciate it.
Doug

Help with tape backup

Hello,
I am trying to configure my database to use a tape backup device. I have Veritas Backup Exec running a Dell tape backup, when trying to test from Enterprise Manager I get the following error:
RMAN>
connected to target database: OHIO (DBID=1527591012)
using target database control file instead of recovery catalog
RMAN>
echo set on
RMAN> run {
2> allocate channel oem_sbt_backup type 'sbt_tape' format '%U';
3> backup as BACKUPSET current controlfile tag '07062006093228';
4> restore controlfile validate from tag '07062006093228';
5> release channel oem_sbt_backup;
6> }
RMAN-00571: ===========================================================
RMAN-00569: =============== ERROR MESSAGE STACK FOLLOWS ===============
RMAN-00571: ===========================================================
RMAN-03009: failure of allocate command on oem_sbt_backup channel at 07/06/2006 09:32:33
ORA-19554: error allocating device, device type: SBT_TAPE, device name:
ORA-27211: Failed to load Media Management Library
RMAN> allocate channel for maintenance type 'sbt_tape' ;
RMAN-00571: ===========================================================
RMAN-00569: =============== ERROR MESSAGE STACK FOLLOWS ===============
RMAN-00571: ===========================================================
RMAN-03009: failure of allocate command on ORA_MAINT_SBT_TAPE_1 channel at 07/06/2006 09:32:33
ORA-19554: error allocating device, device type: SBT_TAPE, device name:
ORA-27211: Failed to load Media Management Library
RMAN> delete noprompt backuppiece tag '07062006093228';
RMAN-00571: ===========================================================
RMAN-00569: =============== ERROR MESSAGE STACK FOLLOWS ===============
RMAN-00571: ===========================================================
RMAN-03002: failure of delete command at 07/06/2006 09:32:33
ORA-19554: error allocating device, device type: SBT_TAPE, device name:
ORA-27211: Failed to load Media Management Library
RMAN> exit;
I'm guessing I missed some kind of configuration step somewhere, but I am unsure what. Any advice would be greatly appreciated.
Regards,
Jordan

I would say OSB is really good product and performance wise also it is great. Though they haven't launched OSB for all of the platforms yet like AIX, 64bit Linux but all these are suppose to come by the end of Sep. I have been participated in beta testing of this product, it was great and now we are waiting for AIX and 64-bit linux releases so that we can start using them as primary backup tool.
It can take the file system backup too without any problem.
Daljit Singh

Steps and Docs - Automated Tape backup for LINUX OS

Hi
Currently we are using ARC7 tape (LTO) backup movement in which the product belong to firm CA for windows. We are not having the license to use it for the LINUX os.
In one of our environment we are planning to set up automated tape backup movement for the LINUX OS. (Database Backups such as RMAN and export) It would be great if you suggest few links or procedural steps to use which tape backups , how to configure, which brand, documents, what all procedural steps etc.
Thanks
SHIYAS M
Edited by: 965652 on Apr 23, 2013 12:12 AM

I suggest to look into Oracle Secure Backup (OSB) or Oracle Secure Backup Express. The later is free.
http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E14812_01/doc/doc.103/e12836/toc.htm
http://www.oracle.com/us/products/database/secure-backup/overview/index.html
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/products/secure-backup/downloads/secbackupexpress-084447.html
There is also a specific forum:
Secure Backup

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Regards,
Ruchi

Hi Ruchi,
This is duplicate thread . refer to original thread http://scn.sap.com/thread/3595877
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