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SnapCenter Software 5.0

Back up Oracle database resource groups

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A resource group is a collection of resources on a host or cluster. The backup operation is performed on all resources defined in the resource group.

You can back up a resource group on demand from the Resources page. If a resource group has a policy attached and a schedule configured, then backups are created according to the schedule.

Steps
  1. In the left navigation pane, select Resources, and the appropriate plug-in from the list.

  2. In the Resources page, select Resource Group from the View list.

  3. Enter the resource group name in the search box, or click Filter icon, and select the tag.

    Click Filter icon to close the filter pane.

  4. In the Resource Group page, select the resource group to back up.

    Note If you have a federated resource group with two databases and one has data on non-NetApp storage, the backup operation is aborted even though the other database is on NetApp storage.
  5. In the Backup page, perform the following steps:

    1. If you have multiple policies associated with the resource group, select the backup policy you want to use from the Policy drop-down list.

      If the policy selected for the on-demand backup is associated with a backup schedule, the on-demand backups will be retained based on the retention settings specified for the schedule type.

    2. Select Backup.

  6. Monitor the progress by selecting Monitor > Jobs.

After you finish
  • In AIX setup, you can use the lkdev command to lock and the rendev command to rename the disks on which the database that was backed up was residing.

    Locking or renaming of devices will not affect the restore operation when you restore using that backup.

  • If the backup operation fails because database query execution time exceeded the timeout value, you should change the value of the ORACLE_SQL_QUERY_TIMEOUT and ORACLE_PLUGIN_SQL_QUERY_TIMEOUT parameters by running the Set-SmConfigSettings cmdlet:

    After modifying the value of the parameters, restart the SnapCenter Plug-in Loader (SPL) service by running the following command /opt/NetApp/snapcenter/spl/bin/spl restart

  • If the file is not accessible and the mount point is unavailable during the verification process, the operation might fail with error code DBV-00100 specified file. You should modify the values of the VERIFICATION_DELAY_ and VERIFICATION_RETRY_COUNT parameters in sco.properties.

    After modifying the value of the parameters, restart the SnapCenter Plug-in Loader (SPL) service by running the following command /opt/NetApp/snapcenter/spl/bin/spl restart