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HP Data Protector and Oracle 10g RAC configuration best practices
Table of contents
Executive summary ............................................................................................................................... 3
Overview ............................................................................................................................................ 3
Target audience .................................................................................................................................. 3
Review of test configuration .................................................................................................................. 3
10gRAC configurations on hp-ux ....................................................................................................... 6
Oracle Virtual IP Address .................................................................................................................. 7
Oracle Services to manage workloads ................................................................................................ 7
Oracle Services definition ................................................................................................................. 7
Oracle Online Backup Configuration ................................................................................................... 10
Configuration Guidelines ................................................................................................................ 10
Use the hostname and the Instance name to configure the backup ....................................................... 11
Use a VIP and the Instance names to configure the backup ................................................................. 12
Use a VIP and a service name to configure the backup ....................................................................... 12
Use a VIP and allocate the channels to the instances manually ............................................................ 13
Storing the connection string in the Recovery Catalog ......................................................................... 14
Backup Configuration Recommendations .......................................................................................... 16
SAN Backup versus LAN Backup ......................................................................................................... 18
Disk Agent and Media Agent are NOT allocated on the same host ...................................................... 18
Disk Agent and Media Agent are allocated on the same host .............................................................. 18
File System Backup: Oracle Base and Cluster configuration .................................................................... 19
Oracle Cluster Registry (OCR) ......................................................................................................... 20
Oracle Voting Disk ......................................................................................................................... 20
Oracle SPFILE ................................................................................................................................ 21
ORACLE Directories ....................................................................................................................... 21
File system Backup Recommendations ............................................................................................... 21
Oracle RMAN Restore and Recovery ................................................................................................... 22
Oracle Restore Enhancements .......................................................................................................... 22
Oracle RMAN Restore script............................................................................................................ 23
Oracle Restore Configuration .......................................................................................................... 24