Thanks, is oracle agent a addon to netbackup or is it included with netbackup? 
With oracle agent we would use rman then right?

Regards,

Chris


On Sun, 19 Nov 2006, Ed Wilts wrote:

> On 11/19/2006 7:52 AM, Krzys wrote:
>> Hello everyone, I have a question, I am new to netbackup still and I am 
>> doing some progress. I did install on my linux boxes clients and now I am 
>> sucessfuly backing them up, now the next step that I want to try is to 
>> backup oracle. I know that there are different ways of doing oracle backup 
>> but I was told by my DBa that previous admin was given stop and start 
>> scripts and he took care of the rest, but I have no idea how to use those 
>> stop and start scripts with netbackup to bring oracle down and then start 
>> after backup is completed. Anyone has any hints? WHen I looked up on the 
>> server side in policy settings I did see options for oracle rman backups 
>> but my DBa says that we dont use rman to back up any databases... Where 
>> could I get more info? any one has any suggestions...
>
> Having NetBackup automatically stop and start Oracle is extremely 
> error-prone.  There will be times when the database will not start up due to 
> a variety of errors that can occur at various times of the backups.
>
> We don't use agents and I got called an hour ago by a DBA and we don't even 
> have stop/start scripts called by NetBackup!  He still thought it was our 
> fault that the database was down.
>
> Use an Oracle agent.  Seriously.
>
>       .../Ed
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