FRA on ASM and to tape

I am using FRA and want to store backups for two days on the disk and also simultaneouly copy to tape everyday from disk. How do I achive this? Does it require a third party tape library that need to be mentioned in the rman script? I see lot of docs talks about copying from ASM to NFS and then allow sys admins to manage the tape copy. Pls advise the steps and best practice/maintenance overhead.

Hello KR,
To store backups on tape devices directly from rman (allocate a tape channel) you must use a MML (Media Management Library eg.: Backupexec, Netbackup, Legato).
But you can store it on a tape backing up you flash recovery area.
In my case to get retention policies...
RMAN> rman target / log=$SCRIPT/WHOLE_DB.log<<EOF
backup as compressed backupset
database tag=WHOLE_DB
plus archivelog tag=ARCHIVED_LOG
delete all input;
delete noprompt obsolete device type disk; #### Erase backup from file system
EOF
Regards,
Rodrigo Mufalani
http://mufalani.blogspot.com

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Installed Oracle 11g R2. Configured ASM +DATA (for data files) and FRA (for backups).
If the FRA diskgroup (which is non-raided) stops working due to the disk failure, assume all other disks (OS and DATA) are still operating normally, will the Oracle database can still be used/accessed by the user?

MORE INFO to add:
Ideally, the FRA should be on RAID 1. But due to the configuration limitation, I can only use one disk for FRA and the spare one for holding the multiplexing files such as REDO, CONTROL, and ARCHIVE.
By this way, DATA (Two ASM disks + raid 1), FRA (One ASM disk, non-raid), and Multiplexing (one regular disk, non-raid).
DATA (redo log + control + others) --> multiplexes to --> Multiplex Disk (mentioned above to hold redo log + control)
FRA (archive + all other backups) --> multiplexes to --> Multiplex Disk (mentioned above to hold archive)
Like to hear your opinion and comments.
P.S. The FRA will hold the backups only, nothing else. And DATA (Two ASM disks + raid 1) will hold the regular oracle data files + redo, control and other related files, nothing else.
Edited by: scottjhn on Aug 27, 2012 3:18 PM

The Script root.sh problem - ora.asm and ASM and Clusterware Stack failed

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Hello. I am installing Oracle 11gR2 RAC using 2 VMs (rac1 and rac2) whose OS are Oracle Linux 5.6 in VMPlayer according to the website http://appsdbaworkshop.blogspot.com/2011/10/11gr2-rac-on-linux-56-using-vmware.html
I am installing Grid infrastructure. On step 9 of 10 - execute script /u01/app/grid/root.sh for 2 VMs rac1 and rac2.
After run root.sh in rac1 successfully. I run root.sh in rac2 and get an error as below:
[root@rac2 grid]# ./root.sh
Running Oracle 11g root.sh script...
The following environment variables are set as:
ORACLE_OWNER= ora11g
ORACLE_HOME= /u01/app/grid
Enter the full pathname of the local bin directory: [usr/local/bin]: /usr/local/bin
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Copying coraenv to /usr/local/bin ...
Creating /etc/oratab file...
Entries will be added to the /etc/oratab file as needed by
Database Configuration Assistant when a database is created
Finished running generic part of root.sh script.
Now product-specific root actions will be performed.
2012-03-05 16:32:52: Parsing the host name
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Using configuration parameter file: /u01/app/grid/crs/install/crsconfig_params
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LOCAL ADD MODE
Creating OCR keys for user 'root', privgrp 'root'..
Operation successful.
Adding daemon to inittab
CRS-4123: Oracle High Availability Services has been started.
ohasd is starting
CRS-4402: The CSS daemon was started in exclusive mode but found an active CSS daemon on node rac1, number 1, and is terminating
An active cluster was found during exclusive startup, restarting to join the cluster
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CRS-2676: Start of 'ora.mdnsd' on 'rac2' succeeded
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[root@rac2 grid]#
As we see the output above, at the end of the output
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2) Failed to start ASM
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The runInstaller is in the first VM rac1. My question is:
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Hello Guys,
I have to implement 3 nodes RAC 10gR2 ob centOS4 operating system. I have study so many documents about rac instaltion and configurations. I have learn how to set the network requirements with private, public and virtual IPs and all other stuff. I have learn installtion of clusterware and database with cluster enable functionality.
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There's no real answer to that! With Oracle generally, RAC or no RAC, the answer to how many disks you should have is "as many as possible". Partitioning is really up to you, too, depending on what you find easiest to manage. If you have a single SAN array, for example, comprised of 15 disks that you choose to partition into three or four logical volumes so that you can call one 'data', one 'redo', one 'OS', and one 'other' -that's entirely up to you, since Oracle could care less how you partition, what you call them or how many of them there are. Moreover, everything on every partition is being striped across those 15 disks anyway, so who cares?
I think, however, you might be thinking of the RAC-specific issues of the voting disk and the Oracle Cluster Registry. If you were using a cluster file system, they could be just two files on the file system, about 120M in size between them. Since you are going to use ASM and these two elements can't be stored inside an ASM array, you'll have to create two raw partitions for this purpose. The rest you then chop up for ASM's use.
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