Good morning people,
after struggling for some hours with this, I think that I'm missing something while setting up backup through brbackup for a database stored in ASM.
Normally for RAC/ASM databases I rely on plain RMAN, but this time the customer wants to use brbackup to track backups from SAP.
The landscape is as follows:
- RDBMS + SAP server running on RHEL 6.5
- Oracle 11.2.0.4 latest patches
- Brtools 7.40 patch 6
- Database stored in ASM
Whenever I try to run a backup to disk as I would do with a database stored on a regular filesystem I get the following message:
$> brbackup -u / -p initDEVclean.sap -d disk -t online -m all BR0051I BRBACKUP 7.40 (6) BR0055I Start of database backup: beovhugt.and 2014-09-26 08:46:31 BR0484I BRBACKUP log file: /oracle/DEV/sapbackup/beovhugt.and BR0477I Oracle pfile /oracle/DEV/sapprof/initDEV.ora created from spfile /oracle/DEV/112/dbs/spfileDEV.ora BR1805I Oracle spfile /oracle/DEV/sapprof/spfileDEV.ora created from pfile /oracle/DEV/sapprof/initDEV.ora BR0280I BRBACKUP time stamp: 2014-09-26 08:46:32 BR0319I Control file copy created: /oracle/DEV/sapbackup/cntrlDEV.dbf 20267008 BR2011E Only RMAN backups supported for ASM database files BR0056I End of database backup: beovhugt.and 2014-09-26 08:46:32 BR0280I BRBACKUP time stamp: 2014-09-26 08:46:32 BR0054I BRBACKUP terminated with errors
And it only allows me to run a backup through brbackup if it uses rman_disk or rman_stage , which, by design, only backup to tape through the SBT library provided by SAP (already installed as stated in note 142635)
I already tried using both of the following parameter sets in initDEVclean.sap profile file:
backup_dev_type = rman_util | rman_disk | rman_stage
for backup types rman_disk or rman stage
and
backup_dev_type = disk disk_copy_cmd = rman | rman_set
for backup type disk (which fails with the above error message)
Has anybody managed to perform a simple RMAN backup to local disk, using brbackup, in an ASM stored database?
many thanks
Jordi