5/6/2023 0 Comments Backup scheduler down avamar![]() So in terms of process flow, I’m looking at something like this: Post-script execution process/workflow But remember the requirement – use the job’s expiration time and retention type for the RMAN backup. And if I didn’t have to do any customisation, #2 would have been easy, too. ![]() Use a post-script to work kick off the Oracle RMAN backup with the appropriate configuration.Run filesystem client backup for some nominated content.The security-token is issued for the intended dataset – the filesystem dataset – not the manual backup that you’ll run in the post-script. (This is unrelated to the timeout associated with pre-scripts or post-scripts.) Of course, you can extend the token expiration time, but I didn’t want to go down that path – security is there for a reason, after all.Ī post-script is another thing though. I.e., if you run an Oracle RMAN backup via your pre-script, it has to finish in 5 minutes in the default configuration. What does that mean? Well, if you start a backup with a specific dataset (e.g., /etc/hosts), and that dataset doesn’t start backing up within 5 minutes (the default), the token issued expires. I did toy with pre-scripts for a while, but Avamar has a token-based security method with an expiration time. The approach is straightforward – start a filesystem backup of something – either a small, token amount of data (e.g., /etc) or the actual filesystem backup. Now, pre-scripts and post-scripts can be quite useful for extending the functionality of a backup product, and this was to be no exception. Where it got interesting was that the need was for Avamar to automatically run this backup, with the RMAN job picking up the retention type (daily, monthly, etc.) and expiration time.Īvamar writes the RMAN script though when you configure an Oracle backup policy – so the challenge was getting Avamar to run a custom Oracle RMAN script and make sure the script pulled in those parameters. Now, that’s straightforward: you can create and run a custom RMAN script from the Oracle server, of course. Someone needed to have Avamar backup an Oracle database, but exclude certain tablespaces from the backup. I had an interesting conundrum come up recently.
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