Failed Backup to Tape

Hi,
i have a new Dell Powervault 124T connected to my server via SATA cable, the driver is up to day
i connect my tape to my vm DPM via Starwind tools and it's OK
In console DPM 2012 R2, i detect the tape in the librairie and there is no problem until now.
When i createa new protection group, i can configure the backup long-term and i specifie the tape.
When it's the backup Time, i have this error: "Failed Backup to Tape"
Any idea???
Make sure you run the most recent version of StarWind which is V8 and also you've applied all source registry tricks StarWind ppl require you to apply (no StarWind code runs on a client so no way to check it automagically). In any case I'd capture StarWind
log and post to StarWind support forum or support account e-mail asking for help :)
StarWind VSAN [Virtual SAN] clusters Hyper-V without SAS, Fibre Channel, SMB 3.0 or iSCSI, uses Ethernet to mirror internally mounted SATA disks between hosts.

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Backup to tape failed in DPM 2012

I am new to DPM.
We have configured a protection group for short term goal with 7 days retention range, Synchronization frequency 6 hours. And recovery points are based on synchronization (means 4 Recovery points per day and DPM will have 28 valid restore points after a
week...!!??). In long term goals we have configured 2 recovery goals to tape ... 1 recovery point per week on saturday (retention 4 weeks) and 1 recovery point per month (on day 1 with retention range of 1 month).
Now Im getting PG status "backup to Tape failed" I want to know the process how DPM will check and verify recovery points on disk before writing them to tape.
Based on my protection group settings, there should be 4 recovery points on disk everyday. but there is something different result...see the below in reply.
My queries are:
1) On Saturday weekly tape job, does it require DPM to have valid 28 Recovery points?? What happen if any RP missing.
2) Due to some issues, if weekely tape backup failed on saturday. Can we resume it on monday,tuesday..with corrective actions??
3) the DPM process of verifying disk based recovery points before writing them to tape.

Hi,
<New questions Snip<
Q1) For file/volume protection, synchronization is not RP. We have to configure RP creation time manually.
A1) Correct, file synchronizations are not recoverable, only "recovery points" are recoverable.
Q2) For application's (SQL,EXCH,SHAREPOINT) recovery points each synchronization job will create a RP as per synchronization frequency.
A2) Yes, for applications like SQL and Exchange that support incremental backups, then incremental synchronizations are recoverable.
Q3) If a tape backup is getting failed due to invalid RP on disk, I am creating a manual RP with Express full backup(for databases) and a RP with Incremental(for file/volume share), then resuming tape backup. Is it correct way to do this?
A3) Yes, A manual Express full for application data or a manual recover point with synchronization for file / share data and that should allow you to manually create a new tape based backup from the alert.
Q4)How to enable the verify option to check the integrity of the tape backup?
A4) Simply modify the PG that has tape based protection and while on the "Select Library and tape Details" page, select the option "check backup for data integrity (time consuming operation)".
Q5) And what is Co-Location..!!
A5) Tape co-location allows data from different protection groups to be written to the same tape. You need to make a tape protection group set using the "Optimize usage" feature under the management - Libraries page of the DPM console.
See the following TechNet pages.
Tape Optimization Setup - Create-Modify Protection Group Set
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/jj628037.aspx
Tape Optimization Setup - Advanced Options
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/jj628016.aspx
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Online Backup from Tape failed

Hi All
We are trying to restore the online backup from tape the backup device is Netbackup Utility
Please find below the log
BR0280I BRRESTORE time stamp: 2011-01-07 16.13.44
BR0229I Calling backup utility with function 'restore'...
BR0278I Command output of '/usr/sap/QC4/SYS/exe/run/backint -u PC4 -f restore -i /oracle/QC4/sapbackup/.reeypwkq.lst -t file -p /oracle/QC4/102_64/dbs/initQC
4.utl':
Program:                /usr/sap/QC4/SYS/exe/run/backint 5.0GA
Input File:             /oracle/QC4/sapbackup/.reeypwkq.lst
Profile:                /oracle/QC4/102_64/dbs/initQC4.utl
Function:               RESTORE
BR0386E File '/oracle/PC4/sapdata1/pc4_1/pc4.data1' reported as not found by backup utility
BR0386E File '/oracle/PC4/sapdata2/pc4_103/pc4.data103' reported as not found by backup utility
BR0386E File '/oracle/PC4/sapdata1/pc4_64/pc4.data64' reported as not found by backup utility
BR0386E File '/oracle/PC4/sapdata2/pc4_116/pc4.data116' reported as not found by backup utility
BR0386E File '/oracle/PC4/sapbackup/cntrlPC4.dbf' reported as not found by backup utility
BR0280I BRRESTORE time stamp: 2011-01-07 16.13.47
BR0279E Return code from '/usr/sap/QC4/SYS/exe/run/backint -u PC4 -f restore -i /oracle/QC4/sapbackup/.reeypwkq.lst -t file -p /oracle/QC4/102_64/dbs/initQC4
.utl': 2
BR0374E 0 of 161 files restored by backup utility
BR0280I BRRESTORE time stamp: 2011-01-07 16.13.47
BR0231E Backup utility call failed
BR0406I End of file restore: reeypwkq.rsb 2011-01-07 16.13.47
BR0280I BRRESTORE time stamp: 2011-01-07 16.13.47
BR0404I BRRESTORE terminated with errors
Please help us out in rsloving this error
Regards
John N

>
John Namala wrote:
> BR0278I Command output of '/usr/sap/QC4/SYS/exe/run/backint -u PC4 -f restore -i /oracle/QC4/sapbackup/.reeypwkq.lst -t file -p /oracle/QC4/102_64/dbs/initQC
Hi,
you are restoreing PC4 database on system QC4.
This requires a netbackup permission configuration to allow client QC4 to access the backup from system PC4.
Volker

Problem with backups on Tape

Could you help me ,I have a problem with backups on tape drive .The error which Windows throws is "BackupTapeFile::UnloadTape: PrepareTape(UNLOCK) failure on backup device '\\.\tape0'. Operating system error 21(failed to retrieve text for this error. Reason: 15105)."
Does anyone of you have the same problem.Thank you!

You cannot perform a regular restore/recovery (up to the latest possible point in time), because at this time dropped tablespace is not known to the controlfiles/recocery catalog and therefore not known to RMAN,too. You have to 2 possibilities:
1. Restore the entire database and recover back in time to before the tablespace is dropped.
This will cause ALL data within the database to go back in time, not just this tablespace.
2. Clone the target database to a new location, perform point in time recovery in order to export
the data of the tablespace for import into the original database. This causes the data of this
tablespace to be brought back into the production database, not effecting existing (current) data
in any other area of the database.
As you can see recovering from a dropped tablespace needs some additional efforts. By the way you also cannot use RMAN's TSPITR functionality.
Werner

DB13 Error while taking the backup in Tape

Dear SAP Guru,
While we are taking the backup in tape through DB13\Brtools command the errors are generate. Please help.
SAP :EC6.0
DB: Oracle 10G
Platform:Windows NT
BR0134I Unattended mode with 'force' active - no operator confirmation allowed
BR0207I Volume in device: /dev/nmt0 will be initialized with name: SCRATCH
BR0280I BRBACKUP time stamp: 2010-12-28 10.58.28
BR0226I Rewinding tape volume in device /dev/mt0 ...
BR0278E Command output of 'mt -f /dev/mt0 rewind                          mt -f /dev/mt0 rewind           mt -f /dev/mt0 rewind':
mt: unable to initialize ASPI manager
mt: using NT tape support
The service has not been started.
BR0280I BRBACKUP time stamp: 2010-12-28 10.58.28
BR0279E Return code from 'mt -f /dev/mt0 rewind                     mt -f /dev/mt0 rewind           mt -f /dev/mt0 rewind': 0
BR0213E Winding tape volume in device /dev/nmt0 failed
BR0219E Initialization of volume SCRATCH in device /dev/nmt0 failed
BR0206I End of backup volume initialization
BR0280I BRBACKUP time stamp: 2010-12-28 10.58.28
BR0054I BRBACKUP terminated with errors
Note: we take the backup\restore sucessfully from windows NTBACUP.

Hi,
The service has not been started.
Try to insert a new tape and then check. Are you able to label the tape?
Regards,
SBK

BR0261E BRBACKUP cancelled by signal 15- Error in Archivelog backup to tape

Dear All,
I am facing the backup issue for long time. i have tried with different solution. But still i couldnot clear.
Please help me to clear the issue.
System Details :
OS : HP-UX
DB : ORACLE 9.2.0.6.0
SAP : ECC6 , Kernel : 304 and DBTOOL : 52 (latest one).
I am taking the database and arch backup into tape.
Tape and init<SID>.sap details : tape_address = /dev/rmt/0mn, tape_address_rew = /dev/rmt/0m, tape_size = 400000M,
expir_period = 0, tape_use_count = 300
Database backup is fine and archive log backup also taking but end of the process its throughing the error.
BR0261E BRBACKUP cancelled by signal 15.
Arch Log error :
BR0278E Command output of 'LANG=C cd /oracle/VRD/sapreorg && /usr/sap/VRD/SYS/exe/run/brtools -f detach LANG=C cpio -iuvB .tape.hdr0 < /dev/rmt/0mn':
640 blocks
BR0280I BRARCHIVE time stamp: 2010-05-12 10.16.16
BR0279E Return code from 'LANG=C cd /oracle/VRD/sapreorg && /usr/sap/VRD/SYS/exe/run/brtools -f detach LANG=C cpio -iuvB .tape.hdr0 < /dev/rmt/0mn': 0
BR0359E Restore of /oracle/VRD/sapreorg/.tape.hdr0 from /dev/rmt/0mn failed due to previous errors
BR0218E Checking label on volume in device /dev/rmt/0mn failed
BR0280I BRARCHIVE time stamp: 2010-05-12 10.16.16
BR0226I Rewinding tape volume in device /dev/rmt/0m ...
BR0007I End of offline redo log processing: aedfcnau.svd 2010-05-12 10.16.35
BR0280I BRARCHIVE time stamp: 2010-05-12 10.16.35
BR0005I BRARCHIVE terminated with errors
Please advise on this.
With Regards,
Senthil Kumar.C

Dear Joe,
Thanks for your reply.
can change the parameter tape_use_count = 300 to 100?. advise me whether some other parameter causing the error.
I am running the online backup with the option : Whole database online + redo log backup in same run.
DB13 log file : i can see that, brbackup completed (datafiles), after starting arch log backup here i'm getting the error.
BR0018I Waiting for the next offline redo log file...
BR0056I End of database backup: bedfduej.ant 2010-05-12 16.25.46
BR0280I BRBACKUP time stamp: 2010-05-12 16.25.46
BR0052I BRBACKUP completed successfully
BR0280I BRBACKUP time stamp: 2010-05-12 16.25.46
BR0291I BRARCHIVE (action ID aedfduej) will be started with options '+bedfduej.ant,154422812672,VRDB03,35:24535 -jid ALLOG20100512153100 -d tape -c force -p initVRD.sap -cds'
BR0280I BRBACKUP time stamp: 2010-05-12 16.28.26
BR0261E BRBACKUP cancelled by signal 15
BR0056I End of database backup: bedfduej.ant 2010-05-12 16.28.26
BR0280I BRBACKUP time stamp: 2010-05-12 16.28.26
BR0054I BRBACKUP terminated with errors
Detailed error from arch log backup : --- arch log files also getting backup but finally i'm getting error so whole backup
ending with Return code: " 0005 Error during processing"
Arch log backup log :
BR0016I 8 offline redo log files processed, total size 75.882 MB
BR0202I Saving space_log
BR0203I to /dev/rmt/0mn ...
BR0202I Saving det_log
BR0203I to /dev/rmt/0mn ...
BR0202I Saving sum_log
BR0203I to /dev/rmt/0mn ...
BR0280I BRARCHIVE time stamp: 2010-05-12 16.27.48
BR0226I Rewinding tape volume in device /dev/rmt/0m ...
BR0351I Restoring /oracle/VRD/sapreorg/.tape.hdr0
BR0355I from /dev/rmt/0mn ...
BR0278E Command output of 'LANG=C cd /oracle/VRD/sapreorg && /usr/sap/VRD/SYS/exe/run/brtools -f detach LANG=C cpio -iuvB .tape.hdr0 < /dev/rm
650 blocks
BR0280I BRARCHIVE time stamp: 2010-05-12 16.27.48
BR0279E Return code from 'LANG=C cd /oracle/VRD/sapreorg && /usr/sap/VRD/SYS/exe/run/brtools -f detach LANG=C cpio -iuvB .tape.hdr0 < /dev/rmt
BR0359E Restore of /oracle/VRD/sapreorg/.tape.hdr0 from /dev/rmt/0mn failed due to previous errors
BR0218E Checking label on volume in device /dev/rmt/0mn failed
BR0280I BRARCHIVE time stamp: 2010-05-12 16.27.48
BR0226I Rewinding tape volume in device /dev/rmt/0m ...
BR0007I End of offline redo log processing: aedfduej.cds 2010-05-12 16.28.26
BR0280I BRARCHIVE time stamp: 2010-05-12 16.28.26
BR0005I BRARCHIVE terminated with errors

RMAN Failed Backup.

Hello Folks,
DB 10.2.0.4
OS AIX 5.3
How RMAN handles failed backup. If I have failed backups in between two successful backups, and under my retention policy window. When RMAN is going to obsolete failed backups? After my retention window ?
Thanks for your time.

+5) you issue 'delete obsolete' - again nothing is deleted,the backup from Friday is still needed (although meanwhile 8 days old) ,because the second backup from Tuesday is incomplete.+
I'm definitely not sure of this and already tested it: (oracle 10.2.0.4 - rman - AIX)
If you have a recovery windows of 3 days. If your backups are good or failed, after 3 days they'll be all deleted after these kind of commands:
crosscheck backup of database;
delete expired backup;
If the date is older then the 3 days, even if it will delete all the backup of the database from the catalog, then all will be deleted. Then your job is to not have this kind of things happening. (Rman will not say "Oh there's only one backup avalaible I'll keep it to be safe".)
The difference here is that a failed backup will immediately be marked as "obsolete" even before the 3 days and the normal backups will have the rentention policy of 3 days but not more.
Add to this that the retention is sometime shared with other party like tape manager that can automatically delete the backup on tape after 3 days to clean tapes and free space. (So if Rman was able to "think" and change the rule alone it'll not be good anyway)
If you have a recovery window in term of number of backups then it'll be quite different.
In this case all the failer backup will be immediately marked as "obsolete" and will not be counted in the database backup.
Means that if you have the number of backup to 2, it'll take 2 good backup

Problem when restoring Backup from Tape...

Hi
I am getting the following error when I am trying to restore a backup from Tape on AIX system:
BR0279W Return code from 'LANG+C cd /oracle/RSD/sapbackup && LANG=C cpio -iuvB .tape.hdr0 < /dev/rmt0': 0
BR0359W Restore of /oracle/RSD/sapbackup/.tape.hdr0 from /dev/rmt0 failed due to previous errors
BR0218W Checking label on volume in device /dev/rmt0 failed
BR0236I Perfhaps volume initialization with option '-i force' required
I have initialized the tape before backup to label RSDB05 which I used while taking the backup.
When I initialized the tape as mentioned above with '-i force' then while restoring there is problem of timestamp.
How to restore the backup from tape now.
Regards
Chin2

Dear Ahamad,
In this command " brrestore -b xxxx.anf -m all -p /oracle/TRG/102_64/dbs/initSRC.sap " you are calling parameter file of source system initSRC.sap in which system is checking parameter/option 'compress_dir'. Please check if its same. Why you have replaced the SSID with TSID its not required at all.
Please follow these steps....
Place xxxxx.anf file in backup directory. check for parameters in initSID.sap file of TRG system. It should be the same as of SRC system.
Try again and post result if you are getting any error.
Regds
Anil

Rman backup to disk 2 Minutes; Backup to tape hours

Solaris 10
Oracle 10gR2
MML Netbackup 6.0
I have the following scenario
Rman backup to disk < 2 Minutes; Backup to tape takes hours
and occassionaly fails with a media manager layer error.
Any suggestions to speed up the backup to tape?

A backup of under 2 minutes . . . not very big.
A backup to tape of hours?
I don't think that is your problem . . . I think you need to check and see if your tapes are valid. If Oracle fails at the end of a backup to tape, it sounds like the tapes are 'bad'.
If the tapes are good: Then look at why it is so slow - I would 'guess' network backup.
Can you backup to disk and then send them to tape?
Solaris 10
Oracle 10gR2
MML Netbackup 6.0
I have the following scenario
Rman backup to disk < 2 Minutes; Backup to tape takes
hours
and occassionaly fails with a media manager layer
error.
Any suggestions to speed up the backup to tape?

Error when backup into tape?

Dear all,
I am copying the daily backup into tape in case of failure, however I got error message.
Herer are the scripts:
1) backup_tape_uat.sh
#!/bin/sh
RS_EMAIL="[email protected]"
cd /u02/db/backup/RMAN
find *.bck -print | /usr/sbin/backup -ivqf /dev/rmt0.1
/u02/oracle/uat/uatdb/9.2.0/dbs/uat_tape_check.sh
/usr/bin/mail -v -s "UAT DB Tape Backup Completed" $RS_EMAIL
2) uat_tape_check.sh
#!/bin/sh
TAPE_LOG="/u02/oracle/uat/uatdb/9.2.0/dbs/uat_backup_tape_log"
VERIFY_LOG="/u02/oracle/uat/uatdb/9.2.0/dbs/obs_backup_verification_log"
EMAIL_SCRIPT="/home/oracle/rsbackup/UAT/rs_email_log.sh"
RS_EMAIL="[email protected]"
rm -f ${TAPE_LOG}
rm -f ${VERIFY_LOG}
mt -f /dev/rmt0 rewind
restore -Tvqf /dev/rmt0.1 >> ${TAPE_LOG}
restore -Tvqf /dev/rmt0.1 >> ${TAPE_LOG}
restore -Tvqf /dev/rmt0.1 >> ${TAPE_LOG}
restore -Tvqf /dev/rmt0.1 >> ${TAPE_LOG}
tail -50 ${TAPE_LOG} >> ${VERIFY_LOG}
${EMAIL_SCRIPT} ${RS_EMAIL} ${VERIFY_LOG} "Backup UAT DB to Tape Verification Log"
3) Execute the scripts
$ ./backup_tape_uat.sh
Backing up to /dev/rmt0.1.
Cluster 51200 bytes (100 blocks).
Volume 1 on /dev/rmt0.1
a 52963840 backup_UAT_668721603_515_1_g3jtnoe3_1_1.bck
a 4145045504 backup_UAT_668721610_516_1_g4jtnoea_1_1.bck
a 4637351936 backup_UAT_668721835_517_1_g5jtnolb_1_1.bck
a 3630170112 backup_UAT_668722071_518_1_g6jtnosn_1_1.bck
a 4228505600 backup_UAT_668722287_519_1_g7jtnp3f_1_1.bck
a 4497604608 backup_UAT_668722513_520_1_g8jtnpah_1_1.bck
a 3073245184 backup_UAT_668722750_521_1_g9jtnphu_1_1.bck
a 3239075840 backup_UAT_668722946_522_1_gajtnpo2_1_1.bck
a 3325440 backup_UAT_668723152_523_1_gbjtnpug_1_1.bck
a 7012352 backup_UAT_668723156_525_1_gdjtnpuk_1_1.bck
a 49152 backup_UAT_668723158_526_1_gejtnpum_1_1.bck
a 23411712 backup_UAT_668732402_528_1_ggjto2vi_1_1.bck
a 507904 backup_UAT_668732409_529_1_ghjto2vp_1_1.bck
a 499712 backup_UAT_668732525_530_1_gijto33d_1_1.bck
a 1294336 backup_UAT_668732641_531_1_gjjto371_1_1.bck
a 524288 backup_UAT_668732756_532_1_gkjto3ak_1_1.bck
a 499712 backup_UAT_668732872_533_1_gljto3e8_1_1.bck
a 5308416 backup_UAT_668732988_534_1_gmjto3hs_1_1.bck
a 507904 backup_UAT_668733104_535_1_gnjto3lg_1_1.bck
a 1812992 backup_UAT_668733220_536_1_gojto3p4_1_1.bck
a 7012352 backup_UAT_668733223_538_1_gqjto3p7_1_1.bck
a 49152 backup_UAT_668733224_539_1_grjto3p8_1_1.bck
a 216773632 backup_UAT_668818803_541_1_gtjtqnbj_1_1.bck
a 516096 backup_UAT_668818823_542_1_gujtqnc7_1_1.bck
a 499712 backup_UAT_668818939_543_1_gvjtqnfr_1_1.bck
a 3268608 backup_UAT_668819055_544_1_h0jtqnjf_1_1.bck
a 540672 backup_UAT_668819171_545_1_h1jtqnn3_1_1.bck
a 499712 backup_UAT_668819287_546_1_h2jtqnqn_1_1.bck
a 15695872 backup_UAT_668819403_547_1_h3jtqnub_1_1.bck
a 507904 backup_UAT_668819519_548_1_h4jtqo1v_1_1.bck
a 1788928 backup_UAT_668819635_549_1_h5jtqo5j_1_1.bck
a 7012352 backup_UAT_668819638_551_1_h7jtqo5m_1_1.bck
a 49152 backup_UAT_668819639_552_1_h8jtqo5n_1_1.bck
a 246164992 backup_UAT_668905203_554_1_hajttbnj_1_1.bck
a 933888 backup_UAT_668905223_555_1_hbjttbo7_1_1.bck
a 778240 backup_UAT_668905339_556_1_hcjttbrr_1_1.bck
a 4014080 backup_UAT_668905454_557_1_hdjttbve_1_1.bck
a 909312 backup_UAT_668905570_558_1_hejttc32_1_1.bck
a 647168 backup_UAT_668905686_559_1_hfjttc6m_1_1.bck
a 18685952 backup_UAT_668905802_560_1_hgjttcaa_1_1.bck
a 1015808 backup_UAT_668905918_561_1_hhjttcdu_1_1.bck
a 1812992 backup_UAT_668906034_562_1_hijttchi_1_1.bck
a 7012352 backup_UAT_668906037_564_1_hkjttchl_1_1.bck
a 49152 backup_UAT_668906038_565_1_hljttchm_1_1.bck
a 639479296 backup_UAT_669291304_567_1_hnju94p8_1_1.bck
a 639499264 backup_UAT_669291342_568_1_hoju94qe_1_1.bck
a 635861504 backup_UAT_669291380_569_1_hpju94rk_1_1.bck
a 1024000 backup_UAT_669291420_570_1_hqju94ss_1_1.bck
a 72122368 backup_UAT_669291536_571_1_hrju950g_1_1.bck
a 185425920 backup_UAT_669291652_572_1_hsju9544_1_1.bck
a 102334464 backup_UAT_669291779_573_1_htju9583_1_1.bck
a 671744 backup_UAT_669291905_574_1_huju95c1_1_1.bck
a 196943872 backup_UAT_669292021_575_1_hvju95fl_1_1.bck
a 1048576 backup_UAT_669292147_576_1_i0ju95jj_1_1.bck
a 2069504 backup_UAT_669292263_577_1_i1ju95n7_1_1.bck
a 7012352 backup_UAT_669292266_579_1_i3ju95na_1_1.bck
a 49152 backup_UAT_669292267_580_1_i4ju95nb_1_1.bck
a 7028736 c-1357907388-20081021-02.bck
a 7028736 c-1357907388-20081021-03.bck
a 7028736 c-1357907388-20081021-04.bck
a 7028736 c-1357907388-20081021-05.bck
a 7028736 c-1357907388-20081022-00.bck
a 7028736 c-1357907388-20081022-01.bck
a 7028736 c-1357907388-20081023-00.bck
a 7028736 c-1357907388-20081023-01.bck
a 7028736 c-1357907388-20081028-00.bck
a 7028736 c-1357907388-20081028-01.bck
The total size is 30638784000 bytes.
Backup finished on Tue Oct 28 18:05:17 HKT 2008; there are 59841400 blocks on 1 volumes.
/u02/oracle/uat/uatdb/9.2.0/dbs/uat_tape_check.sh[13]: restore: not found.
/u02/oracle/uat/uatdb/9.2.0/dbs/uat_tape_check.sh[14]: restore: not found.
/u02/oracle/uat/uatdb/9.2.0/dbs/uat_tape_check.sh[15]: restore: not found.
/u02/oracle/uat/uatdb/9.2.0/dbs/uat_tape_check.sh[16]: restore: not found.
What errors are the last few statement?
Amy

Hi Amy,
From the errors you provided:
The total size is 30638784000 bytes.
Backup finished on Tue Oct 28 18:05:17 HKT 2008; there are 59841400 blocks on 1 volumes.
/u02/oracle/uat/uatdb/9.2.0/dbs/uat_tape_check.sh13: restore: not found.
/u02/oracle/uat/uatdb/9.2.0/dbs/uat_tape_check.sh14: restore: not found.
/u02/oracle/uat/uatdb/9.2.0/dbs/uat_tape_check.sh15: restore: not found.
/u02/oracle/uat/uatdb/9.2.0/dbs/uat_tape_check.sh16: restore: not found.
It looks like it cannot find the backups from tape and thus your backup scripts are not able to execute.
Regards,
Ben

Backup on tape drive

hi
i wana backup on tape drive. is there any need for thrid party Media managment softwares.? If yes then which software can I use (Please all tell me the software version and release number). I am using windows platform and Oracle 10 g v2
Thanks

You review the following link;
Media Management Software
http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/B19306_01/readmes.102/b14233/toc.htm#CHDFBBED
Media Management
http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/B19306_01/backup.102/b14191/rcmarchi004.htm#i1007245
Configuring RMAN to Make Backups to a Media Manager
http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/B19306_01/backup.102/b14191/rcmconfg002.htm#sthref499
Adith

Oracle 10g new feature to backup to tape?

I heard rumours that Oracle 10g has new features to backup to tape directly. I don't know exactly how this is done, and I'd like the experts to comment. What I've discovered so far is that there is this program called Legato Single Server Version (LSSV) which ships with the Oracle 10g Companion CD which makes RMAN use the tape directly as a medium to backup. Is this CD available for download?

I am truly curious why you actively ask to avoid the "New Features Guide" which provides much of the information you desire.
(http://download-east.oracle.com/docs/cd/B19306_01/server.102/b14214/toc.htm)

Backup to Tape ; Some Design questions

Version : We have DBs on 10.2, 11.2 Enterprise Edition
Platform: Solaris 5.10 SPARC
Helloo..
Never worked on Tape before. Currently , all our RMAN Backup Pieces are going to Disk and from there Sysadmin moves it to the tape using TSM.
1. If you were to design a Backup strategy, would you backup to Disk first and then get the Sysadmin to
copy to Tape OR backup directly to Tape?
2. Do you guys backup Level_0 backup on TapeA , Level_1 backups on Tape B
and Archivelogs, Control file , Spfile on TapeC
3. RMAN Backup to Disk or Tape; Which is faster?

1. Best practice directly to tape
Adv: a. Longer retention inexpensive. separate tapes for weekly, monthly and yearly rotation.
b. Can compress
c. Inexpensive for VLDB.
DisAdv: a. Needs Tape vendor (MML) license to directly write to tape.
b. Storing tapes and tape maintenance.
c. Slow process
Writing directly to Disks
Adv:a. For smaller databases with less retention.
b. Faster backups locally
c. Faster restores.
DisAdv:a.Media failure
b.Does not work for VLDB
2. Its expensive to separate tape drives as they come in big sizes.Have maxsetsize or section size set to few GBs for faster read to restore. RMAN can easily identify the files it needs for recovery and the storage vendor have the catalogs that helps. You can separate tapes for permanent retention. Deleting the obsolete backups is messy as you have to load the right tape, operational difficulties.
3. Refer #1.
hth.
Edited by: user11155666 on Jun 2, 2011 5:52 PM

A script that will query for the last successful backup to tape across all protected datasources

I've searched trying to locate an existing script for this and come up empty so far but essentially what I am trying to do is have a script I can run that will query for the latest backup to tape that succeeded for each data source across all of the protection
groups then output that time/date for each to a file.
I'm extremely new to scripting so I am unsure of how to go about getting started with this so any help would be greatly appreciated!

this should work
foreach ($DS in $DSList)
$RP=$DS | Get-RecoveryPoint | where {$_.Location -eq "Media"} | Sort-Object -Property Backuptime -Descending | select -First 1 | select *
$Tape=Get-DPMTape -DPMLibrary $Library | where {$_.ID -eq $Rp.RecoverySourceLocations.MediaMapList.MediaId}
$obj = New-Object -TypeName PSObject
$obj | Add-Member Noteproperty -Name DatasourceName -value $DS.Name
$obj | Add-Member Noteproperty -Name Sourcecomputer -value $DS.Computer
$obj | Add-Member Noteproperty -Name BackupTime -value $RP.BackupTime
#$obj | Add-Member Noteproperty -Name Location -value $Tape.Location.tostring()
#$obj | Add-Member Noteproperty -Name Medialabel -value $Tape.Medialabel
#$obj | Add-Member Noteproperty -Name Barcode -value $Tape.Barcode.Value
$Array+=$obj
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Failed backup/invisible backup file

I tried to do a Time Machine backup of my iMac G5 to my Powerbook G4 using Firewire Target Disk mode. The backup failed and now my Powerbook HD is practically full but I can't erase the failed backup file or write over it either... I can't find the file on the disk to delete it.... any suggestions? Thanks!
Cliff

Clifton Goodwin wrote:
no that folder is really not there... please tell me I don't need to erase my HD!
this really shouldn't be necessary but I don't know where the backups might be hiding. it ought to be somewhere at the top level of the drive.
can you boot from PB? if yes, boot from it and use the instructions on [this page|http://www.pinkmutant.com/articles/TigerMisc.html] to search out what's taking all the space.

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