A demo I put together that shows how to perform a Commserve DR Backup in Simpana 10. It talks about the process of how to do it manually and where you can find the files associated with the process. Sometimes this might need to be performed manually and collected manually so that you can upload it via some manual process due to lack of connectivity in an environment to the outside world. i.e. internet.
It’s a follow on from a previous post that talks about the same process in Simpana 9. Which you can find here.
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An recent addition to Simpana 10 Oracle iDA over Simpana 9 was the ability to specify Media Parameters for RMAN Command Line Operations, which wasn’t possible in Simpana 9.
Below is an example on its use, and the documentation links from Commvault are 1, 2 an 3.
The client in this example is “jwora1” running Windows 2008 R2 x64 and an Oracle 11gR2 64bit release. Simpana 10 with a SP4 is installed on client and Commserve – “jwcs”.
RMAN Script:
run {
allocate channel ch1 type 'sbt_tape' PARMS="BLKSIZE=262144,ENV=(CVOraSbtParams=C:p.txt,CvClientName=jwora1,CvInstanceName=Instance001)" trace 2;
backup current controlfile;
}
Contents of p.txt file below;
[sp]
SP_Main-jwma1
[mediaagent]
jwma1
Below is a look at the GUI configuration for the Oracle instance “orcl” on client “jwora1” which shows that third party command line backups should use Storage Policy (SP) – “SP_Main-jwcs”. However as you will not by the running of the job using the Media Parameters it will use a different SP and MediaAgent, as defined by the p.txt file I passed.
subclient not configured with any SPorcl properties showing command line backup should use SP – SP_Main-jwcs by default.orcl properties showing log backups would use SP – SP_Main_jwcs by default.sample execution of my rman backup script – current control file backupCommserve Job Controller showing the running job. Note which MediaAgent is used and SP.
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UPDATE: And to follow on from the example above, the following is also possible too. If you don’t pass the CvClientName and CvInstanceName on the channel allocation, you can pull those too from the parameters file. Sample below of alternative backup script syntax and parameters file contents. All documented on the documentation link provided top of post.
RMAN Script:
run {
allocate channel ch1 type 'sbt_tape' PARMS="BLKSIZE=262144,ENV=(CVOraSbtParams=C:p2.txt)" trace 2;
backup current controlfile;
}
The parameter file can have spaces between the definitions like in the top example, which I prefer, as it makes the file easier to read. Where as the p2.txt file has no extra spaces, which also works but makes it harder to read personally.
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