Oracle Database backup via ESX/VMWare

We are hoping to migrate our SAP systems to Virtual machines running 64bit Linux/Oracle.
We currently use Veritas Net Backup on our HPUX boxes for all our SAP backups, but as we want to go the ESX route it would be nice to perform automated backups (and restores) at the physical server level.
What backup options are there for backing up SAP on a virtual machine?
Is there a backint connection between Oracle/SAP and Veritas Consolidated Backup?
thanks,
Stephen

> We can backup the VMDK files after placing the database in backup mode, so a restore would be to recover this file (or files). But I don't see how this can be automated.
Does that mean you want to put the Oracle database files into VMDK files and not on the raw device/LUN?
Markus

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Hi All,
I want to know,
1. Is it possible to have oracle database backup in ASCII format
Please let me know
Thanks
Arjun

No, it isn't, as a proper backup is a physical copy of a database.
As Oracle doesn't store data in ASCII, the backup also can't be ASCII.
Why are you asking this? What is the business requirement?
Sybrand Bakker
Senior Oracle DBA

Oracle database backup

I want to format my hard disk. but i want to take a copy of my oracle database
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One way to do this is to take a cole backup
and restore with backup controlfile.
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3. shutdown immediate
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Error in Oracle Database Backup and Recovery User's Guide 12c Release 1 (12.1) E17630-13

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My test cases here:
Database administrator workshop: Differences in default RMAN configuration settings between 12c and 11g
{code}[oracle@vsi08devpom ~]$ export ORACLE_SID=CDB001
[oracle@vsi08devpom admin]$ sqlplus system/oracle@CDB001
SQL*Plus: Release 12.1.0.1.0 Production on Thu Sep 26 09:10:50 2013
Copyright (c) 1982, 2013, Oracle. All rights reserved.
Last Successful login time: Tue Jul 16 2013 13:43:48 +02:00
Connected to:
Oracle Database 12c Enterprise Edition Release 12.1.0.1.0 - 64bit Production
With the Partitioning, OLAP, Advanced Analytics and Real Application Testing options
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CON_NAME
CDB$ROOT
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Recovery Manager: Release 12.1.0.1.0 - Production on Thu Sep 26 09:12:42 2013
Copyright (c) 1982, 2013, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved.
connected to target database: CDB001 (DBID=4134963396)
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using target database control file instead of recovery catalog
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CONFIGURE RETENTION POLICY TO REDUNDANCY 1; # default
CONFIGURE BACKUP OPTIMIZATION OFF; # default
CONFIGURE DEFAULT DEVICE TYPE TO DISK; # default
CONFIGURE CONTROLFILE AUTOBACKUP ON; # default
CONFIGURE CONTROLFILE AUTOBACKUP FORMAT FOR DEVICE TYPE DISK TO '%F'; # default
CONFIGURE DEVICE TYPE DISK PARALLELISM 1 BACKUP TYPE TO BACKUPSET; # default
CONFIGURE DATAFILE BACKUP COPIES FOR DEVICE TYPE DISK TO 1; # default
CONFIGURE ARCHIVELOG BACKUP COPIES FOR DEVICE TYPE DISK TO 1; # default
CONFIGURE MAXSETSIZE TO UNLIMITED; # default
CONFIGURE ENCRYPTION FOR DATABASE OFF; # default
CONFIGURE ENCRYPTION ALGORITHM 'AES128'; # default
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CONFIGURE RMAN OUTPUT TO KEEP FOR 7 DAYS; # default
CONFIGURE ARCHIVELOG DELETION POLICY TO NONE; # default
CONFIGURE SNAPSHOT CONTROLFILE NAME TO '/opt/app/oracle/product/12.1.0/db_1/dbs/snapcf_CDB001.f'; # default{code}
{code}
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Copyright (c) 1982, 2009, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved.
connected to target database: ORCL (DBID=1229390655)
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using target database control file instead of recovery catalog
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CONFIGURE RETENTION POLICY TO REDUNDANCY 1; # default
CONFIGURE BACKUP OPTIMIZATION OFF; # default
CONFIGURE DEFAULT DEVICE TYPE TO DISK; # default
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CONFIGURE ARCHIVELOG BACKUP COPIES FOR DEVICE TYPE DISK TO 1; # default
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CONFIGURE ENCRYPTION FOR DATABASE OFF; # default
CONFIGURE ENCRYPTION ALGORITHM 'AES128'; # default
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{code}

Oracle Database Inserts Via Microsoft Data Transformation Services (DTS)

This question involves a SQL Server database and an Oracle database. The databases reside on different servers. One of our developers periodically uses Microsoft DTS (Data Transformation Services) to read data from a SQL Server database and insert it into an Oracle database. Normally the job runs once a day and reportedly inserts about 20,000 rows. The job usually runs fine. About a month ago execution of the daily job was suspended. Two days ago the developer ran a job to select and insert nine days of information. He estimated that 80,000 rows would be inserted. The job cancelled after twenty-three minutes when it filled up the 512 MB UNDO tablespace. (FYI, we use automatic UNDO management.) At the point of failure the number of active sessions spiked sharply in the Oracle database because of system I/O waits (log file parallel write, db file parallel write, and control file parallel write). The number of active sessions also spiked sharply in three other Oracle databases whose files reside on the same array of disk drives. Most of those sessions were waiting on commits (log file sync). The spikes lasted for one minute or less. Grid Control’s performance monitor shows that sqlservr.exe is the module being executed when the UNDO tablespace fills up. We ran the job a second time and closely monitored it, watching the amount of UNDO space grow until it used all 512 MB available. The symptoms described above for the first cancellation were repeated in the second cancellation.
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Hi Arthur,
Yes both instances are same.
Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 (SP2) - 10.50.4263.0 (X64) Aug 23 2012 15:56:56 Copyright (c) Microsoft Corporation Enterprise Edition (64-bit) on Windows NT 6.1 <X64> (Build 7601: Service Pack 1) (Hypervisor)
I have run the Main package using the using SQL Agent, main package calls the child packages.
The error message shown on SQL agent job is:
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or sometimes
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in the even log it says:
Error Level:
Event ID 1000
Faulting application name: DTExec.exe, version: 2009.100.4263.0, time stamp: 0x5036ba73
Faulting module name: DTSPipeline.dll, version: 2009.100.4263.0, time stamp: 0x5036ba53
Exception code: 0x40000015
Fault offset: 0x00000000000a33c5
Faulting process id: 0x98c
Faulting application start time: 0x01cf64ba9b72b27c
Faulting application path: C:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\100\DTS\Binn\DTExec.exe
Faulting module path: C:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\100\DTS\Binn\DTSPipeline.dll
Report Id: e8eb9b4f-d0ad-11e3-babd-005056997b14
Information Level:
Windows error reporting Event ID 1001
Fault bucket , type 0
Event Name: APPCRASH
Response: Not available
Cab Id: 0
Problem signature:
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P2: 2009.100.4263.0
P3: 5036ba73
P4: DTSPipeline.dll
P5: 2009.100.4263.0
P6: 5036ba53
P7: 40000015
P8: 00000000000a33c5
P9:
P10:
Attached files:
These files may be available here:
C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\WER\ReportQueue\AppCrash_DTExec.exe_ccc7a4e176faafbea69955957371ea96e175b_44c41e3e
Analysis symbol:
Rechecking for solution: 0
Report Id: e8eb9b4f-d0ad-11e3-babd-005056997b14
Report Status: 4

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Hello
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with Regards,
narasimham.

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Facing Problem In Using Oracle Database Cloud Backup Service

Hi Everyone,
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http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/database/features/availability/twp-oracledatabasebackupservice-2183633.pdf
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Hi,
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Dear SAP,
We need your suggestion on oracle database backup parallel using brbackup, our SAP system run on:
OS: UNIX - SUN Solaris SPARC 10
SAP: ECC 6.0 SR3
Database: Oracle 10.2.0.4
Our production database are growing rapidly, estimate growing is 2GB/days. Right now we backup our Production using one tape that estimated time to online backup is 4-5hours.
In there future, if we stayed this configuration. It will take long time to backup and restore it's not applicable. That's why we are planning to add more tapes during backup (4 tape parallel).
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http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw04/helpdata/en/88/a2a041a5d4af4db168992639d65d3b/frameset.htm
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Dear Mark,
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Hi everyone,
Could you please help me to take a look at the error below? I tried to conect the Oracle database server via OLEDB from another machine, and got the error below:
Oracle client and networking components were not found. These components
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or later client software installation. Provider is unable to function until
these components are installed.
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As "orafad" explained, there is no OLE DB Provider in Oracle Instant Client.
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Dear Guru,
I have been facing a problem with our SAP Production system's oracle database backup for last three days. Our back up goes through TSM server. At night 10 pm we have schedule backup for whole offline + redo log backup, 11 pm check and update optimizer statistic and at 11:30 pm Check Database. For last three days above mentioned backup getting failed and we are not able to get such a details log by which i can understand the issue. But Our Development server and Quality server's backup which are scheduled at 12 am and 2 am, the both backup schedules finish successfully. And in morning all schedule backups of Production systems finish without any errors. The issues is coming only with Whole database backup + redo log Backup which schedule at night 10 pm. I have mentioned the log whatever i have got in below:
07.02.2012     07:30:06     Job started
07.02.2012     07:30:06     Job has exceeded its latest start date
07.02.2012     07:30:06     Job cancelled after system exception ERROR_MESSAGE
Above mentioned logs are showing 1day advance log where i have mentioned yesterdays log. That means it should shows 06.02.2012 instead of 07.02.2012 and time should be 22:00:00 instead of 07:20:06.
Our Oracle version is 10.2.0.4.0/ kernel release 701/BRBACKUP 7.00 (40)
Please Guide me.
Regards,
Samrat Chakraborty

OK,
this has nothing to do with brbackup or TSM.
You batchjob starts at 07:30 !!!
Means before that, you do not have any action at all.
Then the job crosschecks it has passed its intended startdate and terminates,
which is correct, since you do not like brbackup to shut down your DB at 07:30!
No brbackup is started at all, which is why you get no log and no tsm connect takes place.
I assume, you misconfigured some operationmodes and at 07:30 an OP-modeconfiguration
with batchjobs switches back in place so that the jobs do start too late.
Check RZ04 and the OP mode timetable
If it is not this, it has to be something else with the batch scheduler causing delay
or may be all BTC processes are busy, but this seems unlikely with a start at 07:30 sharp..
Volker

Cloning Oracle Database Machine

Hi
I have a Oracle database 11g installed on VMWare workstation. I have done clone of this database machine.
Now I want to use the database from the cloned machine. To use this I have assigned new IP address and new machine name to this machine. What all do I need to change other than setting IP address and hostname?
Thanks

Might depend upon how your VMware gets its IP address.
For VMware I would consider both a hosts file entry and a static listener. For the host if you always get the same IP consider adding it under localhost.localdomain localhost :
Example
# that require network functionality will fail.
127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhostListener example :
SID_LIST_listener=
(SID_LIST=
(SID_DESC=
(GLOBAL_DBNAME=sales.us.acme.com)
(SID_NAME=sales)
(ORACLE_HOME=/u01/app/oracle/10g)))Generally if I shutdown the VMware server and copy the files and then pick "Moved it" when I run it, it works with just minor changes to Net80.
For additional information see :
http://www.oracle-base.com/articles/10g/OracleDB10gR2RACInstallationOnCentos4UsingVMware.php
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Best Regards
mseberg
Edited by: mseberg on Nov 18, 2011 8:07 AM
Later
Sometimes if I have issues I add a new network card to the VM and remove the old one. This has helped "force" a new IP address sometimes.

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Hi to all
While Installing Oracle database in linux OS via Virtual machine, i got the below error :-
Preparing to launch Oracle Universal Installer from /tmp/OraInstall2010-07-30_12-34-31PM. Please wait ...
[oracle@localhost database]$ Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server
Xlib: No protocol specified
Exception in thread "main" java.lang.Internal Error: Can't
connect to X11window server using ':0.0' as the value of the
DISPLAY variable.
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Method)
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Source)
     at java.lang.Class.forName0(Native Method)
     at java.lang.Class.forName(Unknown Source)
     at
java.awt.GraphicsEnvironment.getLovalGraphicsEnvironment
(Unknown Source)
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     at java.awt.Window.<init>(Unknown Source)
     at java.awt.Frame.<init>(Unknown Sourece)
     at oracle.ewt.lwAWT.BufferedFrame.<init>(Unknown
Source)
     at oracle.sysman.oio.oioc.OicocOneClickInstaller.<init>
(OiocOneClickInstaller.java:378)
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(OiocOneClickInstaller.java:2091)
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Let me know what are all the steps i need to follow for rectifying the above error.
your guidance will be much appreciated.
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Hi Helious,
After this problem cleared i installed the oracle database; while installing i found another error
Output generated from configuration assistant "Oracle Net Configuration Assistant".
Command = /home/oracle/oracle/product/10.2.0/db_1/jdk/jre//bin/java -Duser/
dir=/home/oracle/oracle/product/10.2.0/db_1/network/jlib -classpath
/home/oracle/oracle/product/10.2.0/db_1/jdk/jre//lib/i18n.jar:
/home/oracle/oracle/product/10.2.0/db_1/jdk/jre//lib/rt.jar:/home/oracle/oracle/product.10.
2.0/db_1/jlib/ewt3.jar:/home/oracle/oracle/product/10.2.0/db_1/jlib/ewtcompat-3_3_15.jar:
/home/oracle/oracle/product/10.2.0/db_1/jlib/netcfg.jar:/home/oracle/oracle/product/10.2.0
and etc.
what i need to do for these errors, and i shutdown my system.
And how i need to continue after rectifying from that point.
Please let me know.. Your help will be highly appreciated
Regards
Khan

Errors in Offline Backup via DB13 SAP & Oracle on Linux

OS: Linux Database : Oracle Systems Affected : Production & Disaster Recovery Server
Hi
We have offline backup scheduled every friday via SAP the backup runs fine & copies all the files in the backup directory but when i go see the backup logs in DB 14 i see the Offline Backup ending with Error Code 0005 & when i see the Detail logs i see following in red
BR0278E Command output of '/oracle/UHP/102_64/bin/sqlplus /nolog < /oracle/UHP/sapbackup/.beelhrfo.spi':
BR0279E Return code from '/oracle/UHP/102_64/bin/sqlplus /nolog < /oracle/UHP/sapbackup/.beelhrfo.spi': 0
BR0302E SQLPLUS call for database instance UHP failed
BR0306E Start and open of database instance UHP failed
Also if i check the BRARCHIVE i see them ending with following errors in Detail Log
BR0278E Command output of 'LANG=C cd /oracle/UHP/sapreorg && LANG=C cp spaceUHP.log paramUHP.log /backup/UHPARCH//UHP':
cp: cannot create regular file `/backup/UHPARCH//UHP/spaceUHP.log': Permission denied
cp: cannot create regular file `/backup/UHPARCH//UHP/paramUHP.log': Permission denied
BR0280I BRARCHIVE time stamp: 2010-10-30 23.02.40
BR0279E Return code from 'LANG=C cd /oracle/UHP/sapreorg && LANG=C cp spaceUHP.log paramUHP.log /backup/UHPARCH//UHP': 1
BR0222E Copying space_log to/from /backup/UHPARCH//UHP failed due to previous errors
BR0202I Saving /oracle/UHP/saparch/aeelofvf.svd
BR0203I to /backup/UHPARCH//UHP ...
BR0202I Saving /oracle/UHP/saparch/archUHP.log
BR0203I to /backup/UHPARCH//UHP ...
BR0278E Command output of 'LANG=C cp /oracle/UHP/saparch/archUHP.log /backup/UHPARCH//UHP':
cp: cannot create regular file `/backup/UHPARCH//UHP/archUHP.log': Permission denied
BR0280I BRARCHIVE time stamp: 2010-10-30 23.02.40
BR0279E Return code from 'LANG=C cp /oracle/UHP/saparch/archUHP.log /backup/UHPARCH//UHP': 1
BR0222E Copying /oracle/UHP/saparch/archUHP.log to/from /backup/UHPARCH//UHP failed due to previous errors
Please also note that we have a Disaster Recovery Server too & the above mentioned errors are in our (Production )Primary Database & once this backu finished the DR Server stops getting any log files, this happens only when this offline backup on every friday runs,
Issues
The backup ends with errors although the backup file is generated & all data is copied
DR Server dont get redo log files after this offline backup on every friday

for the Cp errors i will see the permissions in backup/UHP ( this error is happening in online backup ) my main concern is the error occured in offline backup as it is somehow connected with our DR SERVER NOT GETTING THE LOG FILES EVEN AFTER THE SYSTEM IS UP ( yes if the primary is down no logs will be shipped to standby i know that but even after the primary is up after a offline backup via SAP via DB 13 the standby dont get any log files unless i restart the database and SAP )
So the error in the offline backup mentioned above in my post occurred at 29 OCT 15: 45 20
BR0302E SQLPLUS call for database instance UHP failed
BR0306E Start and open of database instance UHP failed
after this my primary database comes up & sap starts but the DR server dont get any logs & also the backup logs show the above errors in red
Given below is the text from Oracle alert file for the same time duration when the system tries to start the database & the above mentioned error comes up in opening the database time Stamp : OCT 29 15: 45 20
Deprecated system parameters with specified values:
log_archive_start
End of deprecated system parameter listing
This is the only oracle alert log errors i can find relevant to database instance errors from DB 14
moreover in the alert file it also starts the data broker service relevant to i guess DR server in that all seems fine it starts everything then it gives this error & then keeps giving errors ( from oracle alert log file )
Error 12154 received logging on to the standby
Fri Oct 29 15:45:37 2010
Errors in file /oracle/UHP/saptrace/background/uhp_arc0_12086.trc:
ORA-12154: TNS:could not resolve the connect identifier specified
FAL[server, ARC0]: Error 12154 creating remote archivelog file 'UHR'
FAL[server, ARC0]: FAL archive failed, see trace file.
Fri Oct 29 15:45:37 2010
Errors in file /oracle/UHP/saptrace/background/uhp_arc0_12086.trc:
ORA-16055: FAL request rejected
ARCH: FAL archive failed. Archiver continuing
Fri Oct 29 15:45:37 2010
ORACLE Instance UHP - Archival Error. Archiver continuing
& then keep on saying given below error in oracle alert log file
Fri Oct 29 15:51:32 2010
Errors in file /oracle/UHP/saptrace/background/uhp_arc8_12102.trc:
ORA-12154: TNS:could not resolve the connect identifier specified
PING[ARC8]: Heartbeat failed to connect to standby 'UHR'. Error is 12154.
Thanks for your help again i would appreciate a little more assistance on this.
Edited by: Prashant Shandilya on Oct 31, 2010 12:18 PM

SAP Shutdown Necessary During Oracle Backup via BRBACKUP ?

Hi,
Is it necessary to shutdown SAP before backing up the Oracle database via BRBACKUP ?
The BRBACKUP will run cold db backup.
What's the windows script to shutdown & startup SAP v6 ?
TIA !
DL

Hi Desmond,
That is depends upon the backup type you are selecting.
If you are going to take a cold backup brbackup will shutdowns the database and takes backup.
If you are going for a online backup it will take backup without sutting down database.
And here no need to shutdown database manually, brbackup shutdowns database and takes backup.
I didn't understand your second query, what is the script?
Regards
Nick Loy

Oracle Database backup via ESX/VMWare

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