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Preface
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Changes in This Release for Oracle Secure Backup Administrator's Guide
Changes in Oracle Secure Backup 12
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Release 2 (12.2.0.1)
Part I Oracle Secure Backup Concepts
1
Oracle Secure Backup Concepts
1.1
Overview of Oracle Secure Backup Features
1.2
Overview of Oracle Secure Backup Administrative Concepts
1.2.1
About the Administrative Domain
1.2.2
About the Oracle Secure Backup Catalog
1.2.2.1
About Importing Backup Catalog Data from Tape
1.2.3
About Configuration Files
1.2.4
About Defaults and Policies
1.2.4.1
Classification of Policy Classes
1.2.5
About Jobs and Requests
1.2.5.1
About Job Creation
1.2.5.2
About Job Logs
1.2.5.3
About Job Transcripts
1.2.5.4
About Job Summaries
1.2.6
About Users and Classes
1.2.7
About Oracle Secure Backup Daemons
1.2.7.1
Types of Daemons
1.2.7.1.1
Service Daemon
1.2.7.1.2
Schedule Daemon
1.2.7.1.3
Index Daemon
1.2.7.1.4
Apache Web Server Daemon
1.2.7.1.5
NDMP Daemon
1.2.7.1.6
Robot Daemon
1.2.7.1.7
Pool Manager Daemon
1.2.7.1.8
Proxy Daemon
1.2.7.2
Daemon Interaction in a File-System Backup
1.2.8
Overview of Backup Images and Backup Image Instances
1.2.8.1
Backup Images
1.2.8.2
Backup Image Instances
1.2.8.3
Relationship Between Backup Images and Backup Image Instances
1.2.8.4
Backup Image Instances and Catalog Data
1.3
Overview of Oracle Secure Backup Media Concepts
1.3.1
About Backup Containers
1.3.2
About Backup Sections
1.3.3
About Volumes
1.3.3.1
Backup Image Instances and Volume Labels
1.3.4
About Volume Sets
1.3.5
About Disk Pools
1.3.5.1
Storage Capacity on Disk Pools
1.3.5.2
Space Utilization in Disk Pools
1.3.5.3
Disk Pool Orphans
1.3.6
About Backup Image Instances and Tape Volumes
1.3.6.1
Backup Image Instances and Backup Sections
1.3.7
About Data Blocks and Blocking Factors
1.3.8
About Media Families
1.3.8.1
Media Family Attributes
1.3.8.2
Volumes in a Media Family
1.3.8.3
Volume Sets and Media Families
1.3.8.4
Volume Expiration Policies
1.3.8.4.1
Content-Managed Expiration Policies
1.3.8.4.2
Time-Managed Expiration Policies
1.3.9
About Cloud Storage Devices
2
Managing Users and Classes
2.1
Overview of Oracle Secure Backup Users
2.1.1
About Operating System Accounts
2.1.2
About NDMP Hosts
2.1.3
About User Configuration
2.1.4
About Oracle Secure Backup Password Policies
2.2
Overview of Oracle Secure Backup Classes and Rights
2.3
Managing Users
2.3.1
Displaying the Oracle Secure Backup Web Tool Home Page
2.3.2
Displaying the Users Page
2.3.3
Adding a User
2.3.4
Editing or Displaying User Properties
2.3.5
Changing a User Password
2.3.6
Configuring a User in an Administrative Domain
2.3.7
Assigning Windows Account Information
2.3.7.1
Removing a Windows Account
2.3.8
Assigning Preauthorized Access
2.3.8.1
Removing Preauthorized Access
2.3.9
Renaming a User
2.3.10
Removing a User
2.4
Managing Classes
2.4.1
Displaying the Classes Page
2.4.2
Adding a Class
2.4.3
Editing or Displaying Class Properties
2.4.4
Removing a Class
2.4.5
Renaming a Class
2.5
Managing Defaults and Policies
2.5.1
Viewing Configured Defaults and Policies Values
2.5.2
Setting a Policy
2.5.3
Resetting a Policy
3
Managing Backup and Media Settings
3.1
Overview of Backup and Media Settings Configuration
3.2
Configuring Media Families
3.2.1
Displaying Defined Media Families
3.2.2
Adding a Media Family
3.2.3
Editing or Displaying Media Family Attributes
3.2.4
Renaming a Media Family
3.2.5
Removing a Media Family
3.3
Configuring Database Backup Storage Selectors
3.3.1
Displaying Defined Database Backup Storage Selectors
3.3.2
Adding a Database Backup Storage Selector
3.3.3
Editing a Database Backup Storage Selector
3.3.4
Renaming a Database Backup Storage Selector:
3.3.5
Removing a Database Backup Storage Selector
3.4
Configuring Job Summary Schedules
3.4.1
Displaying the Defined Job Summaries Page
3.4.2
Creating a Job Summary Schedule
3.4.3
Editing a Job Summary Schedule
3.4.4
Removing a Job Summary Schedule
3.4.5
Renaming a Job Summary Schedule
Part II Performing Backup and Restore Operations
4
Using Recovery Manager with Oracle Secure Backup
4.1
About Recovery Manager and Oracle Secure Backup
4.1.1
RMAN Environment
4.1.2
Database Backups
4.1.2.1
Types of Backups
4.1.2.2
RMAN Backup Sets and Oracle Secure Backup Images
4.1.2.3
About RMAN Storage Parameters
4.1.2.4
Database Backup Storage Selectors
4.1.2.5
Duplexing Backups
4.1.3
RMAN and Oracle Secure Backup Encryption
4.1.4
RMAN Backup and Restore Policies
4.1.5
Database Restore and Recovery
4.1.6
Interfaces for Managing Database Backup and Recovery
4.1.6.1
RMAN Command-Line Client
4.1.6.2
Oracle Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
4.1.7
RMAN and the Oracle Secure Backup Administrative Domain
4.1.8
How RMAN Accesses Oracle Secure Backup
4.1.9
Oracle Secure Backup Support for Non-Uniform Memory Access (NUMA)
4.2
Configuring Oracle Secure Backup for Use with RMAN
4.2.1
Configuring RMAN Access to the Oracle Secure Backup SBT Library
4.2.2
Creating a Preauthorized Oracle Secure Backup User
4.2.2.1
How Oracle Secure Backup Preauthorizes SBT Backups
4.2.2.2
Configuring an RMAN Preauthorization
4.2.3
Creating Media Families for RMAN Backups
4.2.4
Creating a Database Backup Storage Selector in Enterprise Manager
4.2.5
Setting Media Management Parameters in RMAN
4.3
Performing Backups with RMAN and Oracle Secure Backup
4.4
Performing Recovery with RMAN and Oracle Secure Backup
4.5
RMAN Backup Metadata in Oracle Secure Backup
4.5.1
About RMAN and Oracle Secure Backup Metadata
4.5.1.1
Expiration of RMAN Backups on Tape
4.5.2
Displaying RMAN Job Information in Oracle Secure Backup
4.5.2.1
Displaying Job Transcripts
4.5.2.2
Displaying SBT Errors
4.5.3
Displaying Backup Piece Information
4.6
Using RMAN and Oracle Secure Backup in an Oracle RAC Environment
4.6.1
Installing Oracle Secure Backup in an Oracle RAC Environment
4.6.2
Network Versus Local Backups
5
Backing Up File-System Data
5.1
About File-System Backups
5.1.1
File-System Backup Types
5.1.2
Backup Datasets
5.1.3
Scheduled Backups
5.1.4
On-Demand Backups
5.1.5
About Transferring Ownership of Backups
5.1.6
Restartable Backups
5.2
Preparing to Perform File-System Backups
5.2.1
Choosing a Backup Strategy
5.2.2
Choosing a Backup Schedule
5.3
Steps to Perform File-System Backups
5.3.1
Creating Dataset Files
5.3.1.1
Dataset File Examples
5.3.1.2
Displaying the Datasets Page
5.3.1.3
Adding a Dataset File
5.3.1.4
Checking a Dataset File
5.3.1.5
Editing a Dataset File
5.3.1.6
Renaming a Dataset File
5.3.1.7
Removing a Dataset File
5.3.2
Configuring Backup Windows
5.3.2.1
Displaying the Backup Windows Page
5.3.2.2
Adding a Backup Window
5.3.2.3
Removing a Backup Window
5.3.3
Configuring Backup Schedules
5.3.3.1
Displaying the Schedules Page
5.3.3.2
Adding a Backup Schedule
5.3.3.3
Editing or Viewing Backup Schedule Properties
5.3.3.4
Removing a Backup Schedule
5.3.3.5
Renaming a Backup Schedule
5.3.4
Configuring Triggers
5.3.4.1
Displaying the Triggers Page
5.3.4.2
Creating a One-Time Backup Trigger
5.3.4.3
Creating a Daily Backup Trigger
5.3.4.4
Creating a Monthly Backup Trigger
5.3.4.5
Creating a Quarterly Backup Trigger
5.3.4.6
Creating a Yearly Backup Trigger
5.3.4.7
Editing a Trigger
5.3.4.8
Removing a Trigger
5.3.4.9
Displaying a Trigger Schedule
5.4
Performing Scheduled File-System Backups
5.5
Performing On-Demand File-System Backups
5.5.1
Steps to Perform On-Demand File-System Backups
5.5.2
Displaying the Backup Now Page
5.5.3
Adding an On-Demand Backup Request
5.5.4
Removing a Backup Request
5.5.5
Sending Backup Requests to the Scheduler
5.6
Backing Up Critical Data on the Administrative Server
6
Restoring File-System Data
6.1
About File-System Restore Operations
6.1.1
About Browsing the Oracle Secure Backup Catalog
6.1.1.1
Catalog Data Selectors
6.1.1.2
Example: Usage of Oracle Secure Backup Data Selectors
6.1.1.3
Catalog View Modes
6.1.1.4
About Oracle Secure Backup Wildcard Pattern Matching
6.2
Performing a Catalog-Based Restore Operation
6.2.1
Steps to Perform Catalog-Based File-System Restore Operations
6.2.2
Displaying the Backup Catalog Page
6.2.3
Browsing the Backup Catalog Page
6.2.3.1
Specifying the Backup Catalog Browse Options
6.2.3.2
Specifying the Backup Catalog Search Options
6.2.4
Creating a Catalog-Based Restore Request
6.2.5
Removing a Catalog-Based Restore Request
6.2.6
Sending Catalog-Based Restore Requests to the Scheduler
6.2.7
Listing All Backups of a Client
6.3
Performing a Raw Restore Operation
6.3.1
Displaying the Directly From Media Page
6.3.2
Creating a Raw Restore Request
6.3.3
Steps to Perform Raw Restore Operations
6.3.4
Removing a Raw Restore Request
6.3.5
Sending Raw Restore Requests to the Scheduler
Part III Managing Operations
7
Managing Backups
7.1
Managing Backup Images
7.1.1
Displaying Backup Images
7.1.2
Renaming Backup Images
7.2
Managing Backup Image Instances
7.2.1
Creating Backup Image Instances
7.2.2
Displaying Backup Image Instances
7.2.3
Editing Backup Image Instances
7.2.4
Copying or Moving Backup Image Instances
7.2.5
Removing Backup Image Instances
8
Managing Backup Containers
8.1
Overview of Managing Backup Containers
8.2
Managing Tape Drives
8.2.1
Displaying Tape Drive Properties
8.2.2
Mounting a Volume in a Tape Drive
8.2.3
Automatically Unloading Volumes
8.3
Managing Tape Libraries
8.3.1
Displaying the Libraries Page
8.3.2
Displaying Library Properties
8.3.3
Displaying Library Volumes
8.3.4
Running Library Commands
8.3.4.1
Updating an Inventory
8.3.4.2
Importing a Volume
8.3.4.3
Exporting a Volume
8.3.4.4
Inserting a Volume
8.3.4.5
Extracting a Volume
8.3.4.6
Moving a Volume
8.3.4.7
Opening a Door
8.3.4.8
Closing a Door
8.3.4.9
Identifying a Volume
8.3.4.10
Loading a Volume
8.3.4.11
Unloading a Volume
8.3.4.12
Labeling a Volume
8.3.4.13
Unlabeling a Volume
8.3.4.14
Cleaning a Tape Drive
8.3.4.15
Borrowing a Tape Drive
8.3.4.16
Returning a Tape Drive
8.3.4.17
Reusing a Volume
8.3.5
Displaying the Error Log
8.4
Managing Disk Pools
8.4.1
Displaying Disk Pool Properties
8.4.2
Monitoring Disk Pool Space Utilization
8.4.3
Moving Disk Pools between Domains
8.4.4
Moving Disk Pools to a New Hardware Within the Same Domain
8.4.5
Moving Disk Pools to a New Hardware in a New Domain
8.4.6
Deleting Expired Backup Image Instances from Disk Pools
8.5
Managing Device Reservations
8.6
Managing Cloud Storage Devices
8.6.1
Displaying Cloud Storage Device Properties
8.6.2
Monitoring Cloud Storage Device Space Utilization
8.6.3
Deleting Expired Backup Image Instances from Cloud Storage Devices
9
Managing Backup and Restore Jobs
9.1
Overview of Managing Backup and Restore Jobs
9.1.1
Displaying the Jobs Page
9.2
Displaying Jobs
9.3
Displaying Job Properties
9.4
Displaying Job Transcripts
9.4.1
Backup Statistics
9.5
Removing a Job
9.6
Running a Job
9.7
Canceling a Job
10
Performing Maintenance
10.1
Managing Volumes
10.1.1
Displaying the Manage: Volumes Page
10.1.2
Displaying Volume Details
10.1.3
Displaying Backup Sections
10.1.4
Changing Volume Properties
10.1.5
Duplicating Volumes
10.1.6
Recalling and Releasing Volumes
10.1.7
Removing Volumes
10.2
Managing Catalog Imports
10.2.1
Displaying the Catalog Imports Page
10.2.2
Importing and Cataloging Backups
10.2.2.1
Importing Backup Catalog Data from Disk
10.2.2.2
Importing Backup Catalog Data from Tape
10.3
Managing Checkpoints
10.3.1
Displaying the Checkpoints Page
10.3.2
Removing a Checkpoint
10.4
Managing Daemons
10.4.1
Displaying the Daemons Page
10.4.2
Performing Daemon Operations
10.4.3
Viewing Daemon Properties
10.4.4
Suspending and Resuming Job Dispatching
Part IV Advanced Topics
11
Vaulting
11.1
Overview of Vaulting
11.1.1
About Locations
11.1.2
About Rotation Policies
11.1.3
About Vaulting Scans
11.1.4
About Media Movement Jobs
11.1.5
About Reports
11.1.5.1
Location Report
11.1.5.2
Schedule Report
11.1.5.3
Pick Report
11.1.5.4
Distribution Report
11.1.5.5
Exception Report
11.1.5.6
Missing Volumes Report
11.1.6
About The Vaulting Process
11.1.7
About Volume Duplication
11.1.8
About Volume Duplication Policies
11.1.9
About Volume Duplication Schedules
11.1.10
About Volume Duplication Jobs
11.1.11
About Volume Duplication Widows
11.1.12
About NDMP Copy-Enabled Virtual Tape Library
11.2
Setting Up a Vaulting Environment
11.2.1
Adding Locations
11.2.2
Adding Rotation Policies
11.2.3
Associating Rotation Policies with Media Families
11.2.4
Adding a Vaulting Scan Schedule
11.2.5
Performing an On-Demand Vaulting Scan
11.2.6
Running Media Movement Jobs
11.2.6.1
In-Transit Flags
11.2.6.2
Minimum Writable Volumes
11.2.7
Ejecting Volumes from Libraries
11.2.7.1
Automatic Library Ejection
11.2.7.2
On Demand Library Ejection
11.2.7.3
Manual Library Ejection
11.2.8
Viewing Location Reports
11.2.9
Recalling a Volume
11.2.10
Releasing a Volume
11.2.11
Viewing Pick and Distribution Reports
11.2.12
Adding Volume Duplication Policies
11.2.13
Associating Volume Duplication Policies with Media Families
11.2.14
Adding Volume Duplication Windows
11.2.15
Adding Volume Duplication Schedules
11.2.16
Running Volume Duplication Jobs
11.2.16.1
Volume Duplication Job Failures
11.2.17
On-Demand Volume Duplication
11.2.18
Exporting Duplicate Volumes to Another Domain
11.2.19
NDMP Volume Duplication
11.3
Tracking Volumes Through a Vaulting Environment
11.4
Managing an Existing Vaulting Environment
11.4.1
Managing Locations
11.4.1.1
Editing or Viewing the Properties of a Storage Location
11.4.1.2
Removing a Storage Location
11.4.1.3
Renaming a Storage Location
11.4.2
Managing Rotation Policies
11.4.2.1
Editing or Viewing the Properties of a Rotation Policy
11.4.2.2
Removing a Rotation Policy
11.4.2.3
Renaming a Rotation Policy
11.4.3
Managing Rotation Policy/Media Family Associations
11.4.4
Managing Vaulting Scan Schedules
11.4.4.1
Editing or Viewing the Properties of a Vaulting Scan Schedule
11.4.4.2
Removing a Vaulting Scan Schedule
11.4.4.3
Renaming a Vaulting Scan Schedule
11.4.5
Managing Volume Duplication Policies
11.4.5.1
Editing or Viewing the Properties of a Volume Duplication Policy
11.4.5.2
Removing a Volume Duplication Policy
11.4.5.3
Renaming a Volume Duplication Policy
11.4.6
Managing Volume Duplication Policy and Media Family Associations
11.4.7
Managing Volume Duplication Windows
11.4.8
Managing Volume Duplication Schedules
11.4.8.1
Editing or Viewing the Properties of a Volume Duplication Schedule
11.4.8.2
Removing a Volume Duplication Schedule
11.4.8.3
Renaming a Volume Duplication Schedule
11.4.9
Changing Global Vaulting Policies
11.4.10
Changing Global Volume Duplication Policies
11.5
Recovery Manager and Vaulting
11.6
Troubleshooting Vaulting
11.6.1
Misplaced Volumes
11.6.2
Volumes Outside Their Rotation Policies
11.6.3
Viewing Exception Reports
12
Managing Backup Encryption
12.1
Overview of Backup Encryption
12.1.1
Types of Backup Encryption
12.1.2
About Backup Encryption Policies
12.1.3
About Backup Encryption Setting Levels
12.1.4
About Backup Encryption Options
12.1.5
About Backup Encryption Algorithms
12.1.6
About Backup Encryption Security Control
12.1.7
About Backup Encryption Key Management
12.1.8
About Backup Encryption for File-System Backups
12.1.9
About Backup Encryption for Oracle Database Backups
12.2
Overview of Software-Based Encryption
12.2.1
About Transient Backup Encryption
12.3
Overview of Hardware-Based Encryption
12.3.1
About Hardware-Encrypted Transient Backups
12.3.2
About Hardware Encryption Reports and Logging
12.3.3
About Hardware Encryption Algorithm
12.3.4
About Hardware Encryption Policies
12.4
Example: Performing a One-Time Unencrypted Backup
12.5
Example: Performing Day-to-Day Backup Encryption
12.6
Example: Performing Transient Backup Encryption
12.7
Enabling Backup Encryption
12.7.1
Enabling Encryption for the Administrative Domain
12.7.2
Enabling Encryption for a Client
12.7.3
Encrypting Data for Backups
12.7.3.1
Enabling Encryption for a Scheduled Backup
12.7.3.2
Enabling Encryption for an On-Demand Backup
12.7.4
Enabling Transient Backup Encryption
12.7.5
Enabling Hardware Encryption
13
Disaster Recovery of Oracle Secure Backup Administrative Data
13.1
Overview of Catalog Recovery Concepts
13.1.1
About Catalog Recovery Schedule Object
13.1.2
About Catalog Recovery Media Family Object
13.1.3
About Catalog Recovery Dataset Object
13.1.4
About Catalog Recovery Summary Object
13.2
Overview of Catalog Backup Jobs
13.3
Recovering the Oracle Secure Backup Administrative Domain
13.3.1
Restoring the Oracle Secure Backup Catalog in a Tape Domain
13.3.2
Preparing to Restore the Oracle Secure Backup Catalog
13.3.3
Making the Administrative Domain Operational
13.3.4
Restoring the Oracle Secure Backup Catalog in a Disk Pool Domain
14
Staging
14.1
About Staging
14.2
About the Oracle Secure Backup Default Stage Rule
14.3
Setting Up Staging
A
NDMP Special Characteristics
A.1
NDMP and IPv6
A.2
NDMP and Constrained Error Reporting
A.3
Limitations Using Network Appliances Data ONTAP
Glossary
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