1. Administrator's Guide
  2. Managing Recovery Appliance
  3. Copying Backups to Tape with Recovery Appliance
  4. About Copying Backups to Tape with Recovery Appliance
  5. Basic Tasks for Copying Backups to Tape with Recovery Appliance

Basic Tasks for Copying Backups to Tape with Recovery Appliance

This section lists the high level essential steps to copy database backups to tape using Recovery Appliance.

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"About Copying Backups to Tape with Recovery Appliance"

To copy backups to tape using Recovery Appliance:

  1. Create a media manager library for your media management software to manage all your tape backup jobs by adding parameters that apply to a set of jobs.

    Recovery Appliance uses Oracle Secure Backup as its media management software. During its setup, Recovery Appliance installs Oracle Secure Backup with a preconfigured media manager library and attribute sets.

    See Also:

    "Creating a Media Manager Library" for more information on how to create additional media manager libraries

  2. Create a media manager attribute set that helps you control your tape backup jobs further by adding more job-specific parameters and commands for your media manager software.

    Tape backup jobs use a combination of parameters specified at the media manager library level and the attribute set level while performing the copy operation. Media manager libraries define parameters that apply to a set of jobs while attribute sets help further define tape backup settings for specified jobs.

    Oracle Secure Backup also configures default attribute sets for all drives that are a part of the default media manager library.

    See Also:

    "Creating an Attribute Set" for more information on creating additional attribute sets

  3. Create a tape backup job.

    The job definition includes job properties such as the media manager library and attribute set associated with this job, the type of backups that need to be copied to tape, the run-time window for this job, and so on.

    You can also schedule this job to run at a specified time according to your task requirements.

    See Also:

    "Creating a Tape Backup Job" for more information on creating tape backup jobs

  4. (Optional) If required, pause or resume a media manager library or a tape backup job.

    See Also:

    "Pausing and Resuming Tape Backup Operations"

  5. View the status of all media manager libraries and tape backup operations to check for errors.

    See Also:

    "Viewing the Status of Tape Backup Operations"

You may want to create additional media families for refining backup properties or to schedule vaulting to manage your tape. Use the Recovery Appliance Oracle Secure Backup domain to complete these tasks.

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