Backup Server: User Manual
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1. Logout Resources Flash Date First Date Last Date Oracle Instances Configuration Path Size Taken Actual Status zbackup INSUR 2015 06 25 22 00 260 G 2015 06 25 22 00 00 2015 06 25 17 57 37 UNKNOWN zbackup INSUR 2015 06 24 22 00 260 G 2015 06 24 22 00 00 2015 06 24 18 02 36 UNKNOWN zbackup INSUR 2015 06 23 22 00 260 G 2015 06 23 22 00 00 2015 06 23 18 10 05 UNKNOWN zbackup INSUR 2015 06 22 22 00 260 G 2015 06 22 22 00 00 2015 06 22 18 09 17 UNKNOWN zbackup INSUR 2015 06 21 22 00 260G 2015 06 21 22 00 00 2015 06 21 18 09 10 UNKNOWN zbackup INSUR 2015 06 20 22 00 260G 2015 06 20 22 00 00 2015 06 20 18 03 44 UNKNOWN zbackup INSUR 2015 06 19 22 00 260 G 2015 06 19 22 00 00 2015 06 19 18 09 47 UNKNOWN zbackup INSUR 2015 06 18 22 00 259 G 2015 06 18 22 00 00 2015 06 18 18 00 58 UNKNOWN zbackup INSUR 2015 06 17 22 00 249 G 2015 06 17 22 00 00 2015 06 17 18 03 45 UNKNOWN zbackup INSUR 2015 06 16 22 00 249G 2015 06 16 22 00 00 2015 06 16 18 05 14 UNKNOWN zbackup INSUR 2015 06 15 22 00 249G 2015 06 15 22 00 00 2015 06 15 10 02 39 UNKNOWN zbackup INSUR 2015 06 15 13 45 249G 2015 06 15 13 45 00 2015 06 15 10 02 39 UNKNOWN zbackup INSUR 2015 06 14 22 00 249 G 2015 06 14 22 00 00 2015 06 14 17 57 43 CORRUPTED zbackup INSUR 2015 06 13 22 00 249 G 2015 06 13 22 00 00 2015 06 13 18 07 16 CORRUPTED As seen from the screeenshot for every backup there is Path The physical location of backup on the backup server Size The size of backup in giga2. Backup Server User Manual Version 2 1 p3 Table of Contents OVEIVIEW ana a a en ee rer td ne detente tie en ee dre User IMOPTACE erraina an nenne BOC E T Resources un ae Hk here DISEASE AA a Resource Configuration iii nennen Oracle Database Instances una aneinander ed COMPRO ARTE H ENORC Overview Backup Server can backup different resources such as databases and virtual machines It has additional support for Oracle Database backups as explained in Oracle Database Resources chapter Each resource has many backups new backups are created periodically e g once per day Old backups are automatically deleted when system detects that deduplicated storage area is running of out space Every resource has one working copy This is an exact copy of the production except that it can be few hours behind by design Different resources use different mechanisms to update their working copy For example Oracle Database resources use physical standby database to keep their state up to date WORKING COPY BACKUP zbackup PROD zbackup PROD yyyy mm dd HH MM SS High Availability All disks are mirrored so we can tolerate a failure of any one disk Working copy backups and Oracle archived logs are always stored on different volume groups Deduplicated storage area may occasionally be unavailable for a few days due to maintenance filesystem check but archived logs are still back
3. Virtual Host Schedule Hour zB Minute CB El mon Br B wea Fro Bri Bsa Msun Type Specific Options Standby Host localhost Standby SID sbinsur Drop Resource Definitionn This part is most likely already correctly configured for you as you get fully functional backup server out of the box installed and configured by Abakus However if any of the following properties change in your environment make sure to reflect those changes over here We have already mentioned Resource Type and Resource Name in the Resources chapter Resource Name Name of the resource is also used when backup server creates filesystem folders for your backups That is why you cannot change it once created you would not be able to see your backups even though they would not get deleted Resource Type This determines what software should be used to open a restored backup when opened in one of the slots This can be virtualization software for vm backups database software for database backups etc Note that such software must be installed and pre configured for each backup server by Abakus Special value Other can be used to disable use of any such software for this resource Virtual Host Can either be native in which case no virtualization is used or the name of virtual machine in which the restored resource will become available when you open it in one of the slots This choice usually depends on the software used as some software is only suppor
4. bytes or megabytes Taken When the backup was created Actual Should you restore this backup you would have a state as it was on this date This information is not available until you actually Open or Prepare a specific backup set Status UNKNOWN most common backup is available on disk and backup procedure encountered no errors Previous versions used OFFLINE for this same state you may see that in your old backups CORRUPTED backup exists but backup procedure encountered errors warnings during its execution This backup may actually still be usable depending on what the error warning was but we won t allow to use it trough this GUI You may right click this backup and select Download backup log option to recieve full report on what happened MISSING There is no backup on this date but the resource schedule says it should be This usually occurs if backup is taking longer than it s repeat interval e g daily backup is taking two days to complete NO SCHEDULE There is no backup on this date because schedule is configured specifically not to create backups on this day You may configure the schedule as explained in Resource Configuration Resource Configuration Backup Server backup 72 82TB of backup data is stored on 842 39GB 4 88TB physical volume Refresh Logout Resources Flash Date First Date Backups Oracle Instances Configuration Resource Name INSUR Resource Type Oracle Database MM
5. ed up at this time and physical standby databases are still updated We also support a secondary backup server possibly in a different geo location which means two backup servers with identical content if one fails the other one still works User Interface Login Backup Server Control Panel is a web application which can be accessed by a web browser at the following URL address http hostname 8080 Of course you should replace hostname with the hostname or with the IP of your backup server Resources After a successful login list of resources is displayed You can select a resource of interest to display the list of available backups for this resource Every resource has following properties Type database for Oracle Databases other for everything else Name Name of the resource can be anything but should reflect the name of the database or the virtual machine or whatever is being backed up First Date The date of the most recent backup Note that new backups are usually created daily Last Date The date of the least recent backup Note that oldest backups are deleted when backup server s deduplicated storage starts running out of space Flash Date Working copy reflects the state of production on this date Note that this is usually lagging behind a few hours or a day List of Backups Backup Server backup 72 82TB of backup data is stored on 842 39GB 4 88TB physical volume Refresh
6. n using resources of type database Each such resource database has one or more slots Slots are pre created according to server s capabilities when new resource is registered with the backup server Once the instance is open in one of the slots you can connect to this instance by using any Oracle client of your choice such as SQL Plus or SQL Developer Connection details such as hostname port and service name are displayed if you click Status button Each slot can hold one Oracle Instance basic description of each is described in slots table Slot Unique name ofthe slot in which the instance is or could be running SID Oracle SID of the instance This SID will not actually exist until Open operation is performed on the slot Purpose USER user defined no action other than opening a database is performed TEST and ACCEPTANCE administrators may have provided procedures to run after restore to transform production database to a test or acceptance database Control File Time The time in controlfile This is the time at which the database contents were the same as the production ones if instance was never opened as READ WRITE Open Mode The result of SELECT open mode FROM v database Status OFFLINE slot is not used You may open any usable backup in this slot ONLINE slot is used Backup was successfully restored to this slot LOCKED Restore is currently in progress for this slot You
7. should wait for background process to finish restoring backup to this slot This status is also used while the slot is closing shutting down On the right bottom of the page is a progress bar while this gif is visible part of the page is reloaded every 15 seconds So you are notified when the slot becomes online or offline after being locked Change Log 2 1 Added resource configurator Slots are locked while background process is working on them
8. ted on specific operating systems Virtual hosts must be installed and preconfigured by Abakus before you can select it in this menu Schedule Backup is created only on the days you select On every selected day it starts at the same time as configured in Hour and Time fields Oracle Database Specific Configuration Standby SID and Standby Host Backup Server uses Physical Standby Database to maintain current copy of Oracle Database It can either be Oracle DataGuard or a set of procedures provided by Abakus Amon Scripts It may run on the same server as the backup server on a virtual machine inside backup server or on a completely separated host by mounting backup server s disks Because of this diversity we need to know where this current copy is located in order to collect data for status report current controlfile time etc Oracle Database Instances Backup Server backup 72 82TB of backup data is stored on 842 39GB 4 88TB physical volume Refresh Logout Resources Flash Date First Date Last Date Backups Oracle Instances Configuration Slot SID Purpose Control File Time Open Mode Status AC acinsur ACCEPTANCE OFFLINE TT ttinsur TEST OFFLINE uo u0insur USER 2015 06 23 18 10 05 READ ONLY ONLINE ul ulinsur USER OFFLINE u2 u2insur USER LOCKED U3 u3insur USER OFFLINE U4 u4insur USER OFFLINE US uSinsur USER OFFLINE alert log bsctrl log bsctri_vm log l You have some additional features available whe
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