Incrementally Updated Backups -- do you Backup to TAPE ?

Incrementally Updated Backups on disk provide
a. only a single image of the database
b. as of only a particular point in time (the last incremental update)
c. no protection against disk/storage failure as the backups are on the same server as the database
Your Incrementally Updated Backups should go to Tape or to another Disk Area on another server or Virtual Tape Library frequently.
You may find the need to "restore and recover the database as of 3 days ago OR as of the last critical processing date" which cannot be done if you incrementally update your backup every day.
A backup on disk doesn't protect you from disk failure.
Hemant K Chitale
http://hemantoracledba.blogspot.com

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where you'll find a discussion of what you can do.

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Incrementally updated backup and EMC NMDA

Hello Everyone,
I'm kind of a newbie in setting up networker module for oracle, to backup database to tape. We use the oracle's suggested backup strategy to backup DB to Disk first using the incrementally updated backups with recovery set to 3 days (RECOVER COPY OF DATABASE WITH TAG ... UNTIL TIME 'SYSDATE-3') , which helps us to recover DB to any point in time using the backup files in disks vs. going to tape. After backup to disk, we backup recovery area to tape nightly. However, we do want to maintain backup Retention Policy of 1 month. Couple of questions,
1. If i set RP to recovery window of 31 days in RMAN, then backups don't obsolete at all. this forces me to set RP in networker and they don't recommend setting RP in both RMAN and networker. how is this done generally to obsolete backups from tape as well as rman (catalog in CF) with above strategy. perhaps in this case i should set RP in netwoker and set RP in RMAN to none and rely on crosscheck and delete expired commands to sync with RNAM catalog.
2. Wondering if nightly backup of recovery area to tape is going to take incremental from previous day and NOT full backup. The reason i ask is, i do not want the tape to do full backup of FRA every day cause full backup datafiles change once in 3 days based on the until time set. is there an option do set in networker to do incremental only or that's the default.
Thanks in Advance!
11gR2, 4 Node RAC, Linux, NMDA 1.1, Networker 7.6 sp1

Loic wrote:
You do a full backup of the FRA on tape ?No, I do a full backup of the database on tape. Using RMAN together with Veritas NetBackup.
I mean if you use incremental updated backup it'll not work on tape... Because the level 0 backup that will be updated with the backup of the day after will be on tape and will not be updated.The incrementally updated backup is in the FRA only, on disk (both the image copy and the following backup sets that are used for recovery of the image copy). Never gets written to tape or updated on tape.
Why don't you use then normal incremental backup ? That will have no problem with the tape backup even if level0, or level1,2 becomes reclaimable... ?I think I do :-)
Maybe:
To keep that you can put the redundancy to 2 out of 1 copy. Like this even with one copy on disk and tape it'll say keep the 2 copies.
CONFIGURE RETENTION POLICY TO REDUNDANCY 2;I'll think about that.

Differential Incremental Backup or Incrementally Updated Backup?

DB Version:11g
DB Size:450Gb
DB type: OLTP (storing retail warehouse transactions)
To implement a proper backup strategy, we are currently weighing the Pros and Cons of Differential Incremental Backup and Incrementally Updated Backup.
I understand that , for Incrementally Updated Backup , the level 0 backup must be stored in FRA. We don't want to configure FRA as of now.
Which backup strategy would you choose for a similair environment?

I don't think that 11g RMAN level 0 backup need to use FRA: can you provide us the link to Oracle doc ?
When designing your backup strategy you need to define:
RTO: recovery time objective
RPO: recovery point objective.
See http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/B19306_01/server.102/b14210/hadesign.htm
To meet a low RTO objective, you may need to use incrementally updated backup because it should be faster to recover from incrementally updated backup compared to differential incremental backup.

Concept about Incremental Updated backup

I am going through Backup portion of Oracle. However, I am not able to understand the concept about the incremental Updated backups, its advantages and disadvantages.
Can anyone here help me out to get my concept clear.
Thanks in advance .

916438 wrote:
I am going through Backup portion of Oracle. However, I am not able to understand the concept about the incremental Updated backups, its advantages and disadvantages.
Can anyone here help me out to get my concept clear.
Thanks in advance .http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E11882_01/backup.112/e10643/rcmsynta2011.htm#RCMRF111

Incremental RMAN Backup to tape.

Hi,
We have 2.2 TByte Oracle Dataware House. At weekends, we would like to take inceremental level 0 backup to tape and then incemental level 1 to disk daily.
So that we expect to reduce disk space for backup. We also handle the cover risk of direct path load by mains of incremental level backup.
But, I would like to know that, taking incremental level 0 to tape causes performance problems. Rman try to discover changes between the incemental level 0 on the tape and incemental level 1 on the disk.
Should we take both incremental level 0 and incremental level 1 to disk or tape?
I need your recomendations.
Thank you.

Thank you Satish Kandi for your reply,
As far as understand accourding to document that you refer,
if we configure well adjustment for channel of disk and tape io buffers,
and multiplexing, then we can take backup incemental level 0 to tape.
We don't want to use encryption and compression in order not to consume CPU resources.
In fact, we should try and obsorve the performance.
Thank you.

Incremental updated RMAN backup help 11gR2

Dear all,
My manager ask me to build RMAN scripts to backup the 11gr2 database in redhat Linux.
Any help how to achieve this using RMAN?
thank you

I am not asking you to write a script. I can write it by myself.
What I need to know:
1- Incremental level 0 is a must in my case or I can just use the command below and it does everything (Level 0 , level 1 and level 0 incrementally updated)
backup incremental level 1 for recover of copy tag 'ALL_BACKUP' database;
2- The TAG must be unique every week, or can be always "ALL_BACKUP" ?
3- Which retention period is adequate in my case? 8 days are ok ?
4- Should I update the CONTROL_FILE_RECORD_KEEP_TIME to more than 7 days?
thank you

INCREMENTAL MERGE BACKUP & RECOVERY

INCREMENTAL MERGE BACKUP & RECOVERY
=====================================
1) 개요
RMAN을 이용하여 database의 Image copy를 Backup하고 그 Backup에 retention policy만큼의 Incremental Backup을 적용하여서 복구의 시간을 단축한 Backup의 방법입니다.
즉 retention policy에 설정되어있는 시간 전의 최후의 시간까지 Image Copy를 보장하는 방법이며 Disk Space는 Incremental Backup만 사용하는 방법보다는 Image Copy를 사용하는 것임으로 많이 소요됩니다.
물론 Backup & Recovery 정책에 따라서 Retention Policy를 Recovery Window나 Redundancy 2이상으로 설정할 수 있으나, Incremental Merge Backup & Recovery의 장점을 극대화 하기 위해서는 Redundancy 1 (Default)로 설정하는 것을 권해드립니다.
2) 장점
- Recovery 시에 최근 Incremental Backup의 정보들이 적용이 되어있기 때문에 최소한의 시간으로 Recovery 작업을 진행하실 수 있습니다. 물론 장점을 극대화 하시기 위해서는 Retention Policy를 redundancy 1로 설정해 주시길 권해드립니다.
- Datafile들의 Destination을 Backup된 Image Copy가 있는 곳으로 Switch 하여 Restore하는 시간을 단축하셔서 Recovery를 진행하실 수도 있으나 Recovery 후의 관리의 용이성을 위해 부득히한 경우를 재외하고는 권장하지 않습니다.
3) Syntax
- Backup
RMAN> BACKUP INCREMENTAL LEVEL 1
FOR RECOVER OF COPY
WITH TAG WEEKLY DATABASE;
위 명령어를 사용하시면 WEEKLY라는 Tag로 생성된 Copy가 없을 시에는 Image Copy를 Weekly라는 Tag로 구분하여 Backup을 받게 됩니다.
* 여기서 Copy라 함은 FOR RECOVER OF COPY라는 구문을 사용하여서 만든 Image Copy를 뜻합니다.
RMAN> RECOVER COPY OF DATABASE WITH TAG WEEKLY;
위 명령어를 사용하시면 현재 받았던 Incremental Backup을 Weekly라는 Tag를 가지고 있는 Database Copy에 적용을 하게 됩니다.
RMAN> Delete Obsolete;
위 명령어를 사용하시면 현재의 Image Copy에 적용된 Incremental Backup을 재외한 나머지 Incremental Backup들이 Delete됩니다.
-Recovery
RMAN> switch database to copy;
문제가 발생하셨을 때 위 명령어를 사용하시면 모든 datafile의 pointer들은 image backup copy를 바라보게 됨으로 Restore의 시간을 절약할 수 있습니다.
4) Retention Policy에 따른 Syntax 변화
* 기본적으로 INCREMENTAL MERGE BACKUP & RECOVERY의 장점인 Recovery 시간을 극대화 하기 위해서는 Retention Policy를 redundancy 1(Default)로 설정하시는 것을 권장해드립니다.
하지만 User가 Backup & Recovery 계획을 변경하여 retention policy를 recovery window 또는 redundancy 1 이상으로 설정해 주시면 Obsolete한 Backupset을 Delete하는 부분과 Backupset을 적용시키는 부분을 수정해 주셔야합니다.
- Recovery Window of 2
Recovery Window를 2일로 설정해 놓으시면 Backup시에는 똑같은 Syntax를 사용하실 수 있으나 Recover copy of database 명령어는 아래와 같이 바뀌어야 합니다.
RMAN> BACKUP INCREMENTAL LEVEL 1
FOR RECOVER OF COPY
WITH TAG WEEKLY DATABASE;
RMAN> RECOVER COPY OF DATABASE WITH TAG WEEKLY until time 'sysdate-2';
왜냐하면 retention policy에 마춰서 image copy도 2일전의 상태로 보관되어야하며 그에 따라서 2일동안의 Backupset들도 보관되어야하기 때문입니다. 만약 until time을 사용하지 않으시면 incremental backup들이 obsolete 상태로 안변하게 됩니다.
- Redundancy 2 이상
Redundancy 2이상으로 설정해 주시면 2개 이상의 Tag를 보관하는 효과로서 역시 예상대로 Obsolete로 안 변하는 현상이 발생됩니다.
DAY 1)
RMAN> BACKUP INCREMENTAL LEVEL 1 FOR RECOVER OF COPY WITH TAG DAILY DATABASE;
-위와 같이 실행하시면 한개의 Database Copy (Tag DAILY)가 생성됩니다.
DAY 2)
RMAN> BACKUP INCREMENTAL LEVEL 1 FOR RECOVER OF COPY WITH TAG DAILY DATABASE;
RMAN> BACKUP INCREMENTAL LEVEL 1 FOR RECOVER OF COPY WITH TAG WEEKLY DATABASE;
-위와 같이 실행하시면 한개의 Database Copy (Tag WEEKLY)와 한개의 Backupset (Tag DAILY)가 생성됩니다.
DAY 3)
RMAN> BACKUP INCREMENTAL LEVEL 1 FOR RECOVER OF COPY WITH TAG DAILY DATABASE;
RMAN> BACKUP INCREMENTAL LEVEL 1 FOR RECOVER OF COPY WITH TAG WEEKLY DATABASE;
RMAN> BACKUP INCREMENTAL LEVEL 1 FOR RECOVER OF COPY WITH TAG MONTHLY DATABASE;
-위와 같이 실행하시면 한개의 Database Copy (Tag MONTHLY)와 두개의 Backupset (Tag DAILY, Tag WEEKLY)가 생성됩니다.
DAY 4)
RMAN> Delete Obsolete;
- 위와 같이 실행하시면 DAILY Tag와 관련된 부분이 Delete 됩니다. (최신 2개의 Tag관련 Backup만 보관)
RMAN> Delete Obsolete redundancy 1
- 위와 같이 실행하시면 DAYLY Tag와 WEEKLY Tag 관련된 부분이 Delete 됩니다. (Redundancy 1로 설정한 것과 똑같은 효과)
Reference:
Article-ID: Note 351455.1
Title: Oracle Suggested Strategy & Backup Retention
Article-ID: Note 303861.1
Title: Incrementally Updated Backup In 10G
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hunlee

I would always include an archivelog backup:
... with tag 'fullbackup’ database plus archivelog delete all input;
And at the end:
delete obsolete noprompt;
That delete incrmental backups already applied to the basic image copies.
Your configuration allows only limited point in time recoveries. As soon as an incremental backup is applied to the image copies, you cannot go back in time. To change this you can add a 'until time' clause, for example:
recover
copy of database
with tag 'fullbackup until time 'sysdate-11';
This creates a recovery window of 10 days, only image copies older than 10 days will be changed.
Werner

Create Incremental Full Backup

Hey, I thought I created an incremental full backup with attached rman script.
But at the point of restoring the database it comes up, that I just have an incremental backup of the source database.
Whats wrong in my configuration ? I like to have a daily full backup of the database where just the changes to the full backup are backed up. But the backupfile should always be a full backup.
I am using 10gR2 Standard Edition
CONFIGURE RETENTION POLICY TO REDUNDANCY 1;
CONFIGURE BACKUP OPTIMIZATION OFF; # default
CONFIGURE DEFAULT DEVICE TYPE TO DISK; # default
CONFIGURE CONTROLFILE AUTOBACKUP ON;
CONFIGURE CONTROLFILE AUTOBACKUP FORMAT FOR DEVICE TYPE DISK TO '/backup/app/control_%F';
CONFIGURE DEVICE TYPE DISK BACKUP TYPE TO COMPRESSED BACKUPSET PARALLELISM 1;
CONFIGURE DATAFILE BACKUP COPIES FOR DEVICE TYPE DISK TO 1; # default
CONFIGURE ARCHIVELOG BACKUP COPIES FOR DEVICE TYPE DISK TO 1; # default
CONFIGURE CHANNEL DEVICE TYPE DISK FORMAT '/backup/app/LEVEL0_%u_%T';
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 '/opt/oracle/product/10gR2/db_1/dbs/snapcf_db01.f'; # default
# Database RAC Logswitch
sql 'alter system archive log current';
# Fullbackup Database - Perform incremental level 0 backup
run {
BACKUP incremental level 0 format '/backup/app/%d_Level0_%T_%U' database PLUS ARCHIVELOG format '/backup/app/%d_A
rchivelog_%T_%U';
}

An Incremental Backup is a fresh backup of all the changes that have occurred in the database since the last backup.
Thus, a Level 1 Incremental Backup is a smaller backup than the preceding Level 0 Backup.
However, when you say :
I like to have a daily full backup of the database where just the changes to the full backup are backed up. But the backupfile should always be a full backup.You seem to want an Incrementally Updated Backup. That is a backup strategy where your Backup itself is updated.
I am not sure if this is available in the Standard Edition.
Here's documentation on Incrementally Updated Backups : at 4.4.3 Incrementally Updated Backups: Rolling Forward Image Copy Backups
http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/B19306_01/backup.102/b14192/bkup004.htm#sthref408
While this is the "normal" Incremental Backups : at 4.4 RMAN Incremental Backups
http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/B19306_01/backup.102/b14192/bkup004.htm#sthref383
Hemant K Chitale
http://hemantoracledba.blogspot.com

WebDAV repository and incremental update

Hi guys
Does any of you know what is needed in order to make incremental update work when you have configured a WebDAV repository manager?
Is it only neccessary to check "Send events" or do you also have to activate some services like "properties"?
Any help will be rewarded.
Kind regards,
Martin

Hi Julian
Thank you for your answer.
It is a win2000 server, so I guess that should not be the problem? But since the data communication is going through the IIS, it might be a setting that needs to be set there?
Kind regards,
Martin

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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This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights.

Differential backups to tape

We have a number of medium size client sites that we support with an average of 150 users at each site.
Their file server data repository has now grown to just under 2T . We backup with SCDPM 2012 SP1 onto LTO5 1.5/3T standalone tape units.
DPM does not allow you to create a Protection Group with just the differential data from the last full backup onto tape.
We have the desired recovery point options when backing up disk to disk but not directly to tape – could you check if this can be configured somehow.
Backup windows now span well into business hours due to this and in some cases take more than 24hours to complete – The latter is due to backing up millions of files in our current email archive solution repository.
We obviously do not require a full daily backup of this data and the backup to disk options requires the client investing in addition hardware for each of it 20 sites which they see as not feasible.

Hi,
If you are only performing Disk to Tape (D2T) backups, you do have the option to perform Full+Incremental short term backups. The Full can be on a weekend day, and perform the incremental backup during the week.
If you are currently doing Disk to Disk to Tape (D2D2T) - then what you desire is an option to perform Full+Incremental long term backups which DPM does not support.
Please remember to click “Mark as Answer” on the post that helps you, and to click “Unmark as Answer” if a marked post does not actually answer your question. This can be beneficial to other community members reading the thread. Regards, Mike J. [MSFT]
This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights.

Taking Backup on tape Getting Error

Hi,
My production server is running with SuSE Linux 10 SP2 with DB2 9.7 database.
I have LTO4 tape drive directly connected to my Production server
I am able to take backup to disk but when I am trying to take backup to tape I am getting error as below.
SRSPROD:shpadm 38> db2 backup database SHP to /dev/st0
SQL2031W Warning! Please mount the target or source media on device
"/dev/st0".
Do you want to continue(c), terminate this device only(d), abort the utility(t) ? (c/d/t)
I have full permissions on tape
SRSPROD:shpadm 39> ls -l /dev/st0
crwxrwxrwx 1 root disk 9, 0 2010-04-26 08:57 /dev/st0
Thanku

Hi,
Before we start into deeper analysis I would like to confirm that normal
writes to the tape works e.g. with OS meanings. Could you please test
if you are able to put an archive with tar to the tape?
e.g. with "tar cvf /home/<user> /dev/<TAPEDEVICE>"
What happens if you select continue as this message is only a warning?
Does the backup then end with an error?
If so please update with the error you recieve.
Regards,
Paul

Incremental Hot backup question

This question originated from a different post of mine, but is somewhat different so I'm starting it up as a separate topic.
Each night we do an incremental hot backup around 4am. Yesterday I dropped a tablespace successfully and removed the original datafile along with it. Autobackup backed up the control file before and after the drop. Then when the incremental backups ran last night at 4am everything went just fine.
So up to this point we're all good.
However, in the flash recovery area where it writes the backups (backupsets, datafiles, etc) it still has a file for that tablespace... except that it did not appear to be updated like all the reset were. This is fine, but that file is taking up space on the box and the unix backup script that copies everything to a separate box still picks it up (that script copies everything.. and the author of the code doesn't want to hard code any names)
Can I just remove this file without causing the backup to be upset? Or do I need to do something else to accomplish this goal? And if so, what (still a newbie so be specific)?
Thanks in advance.

The first thing you need to do is to provide a complementary crystal ball in order to be able to guess nasty little details, like the contents of that script.
Even 'incremental hot backup' is an ambiguous term. One would expect a RMAN backup, but as you didn't use various RMAN commands to establish all of your files have been backed up, and you talk about 'backupsets' and seem to discuss a standalone datafile: The only thing I see is lots of fog, and the need to tear the information out of you.
No business for volunteers.
Sybrand Bakker
Senior Oracle DBA
Experts: those who did read documentation.

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

How can I update backup of iPhone at iCloud without wifi?

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You can't. iCloud backups can only be done over wifi.
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