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1. lPaddress servicename Note If you connect to a database that listens on a port other than the default the format for the Database Service Name is service name port number for example orcl 1523 4 Select or confirm the databases that you want to back up 5 If you wish select an encryption type and supply an encryption password Also select any advanced options e g compression and logging levels that you want 6 Specify a schedule if you wish Oracle Corporation recommends that backups take place in periods of low database activity 7 Choose a destination i e vault for the backup data You can start the backup immediately or let it run on a schedule Log files are created on the Web CentralControl machine under the installation directory Their names match the Job names You normally view them from Web CentralControl 7 3 8 How the Backup Works When a backup starts the Oracle Plug in iterates through all non TEMPORARY tablespaces including ONLINE OFFLINE and READONLY tablespaces Each ONLINE tablespace will enter ARCHIVELOG mode which creates a snapshot of the tablespace s files The tablespace s component files will be backed up When the backup of an ONLINE tablespace s files finishes the tablespace will return to normal mode After all of the tablespaces have been backed up the Plug in flushes any pending redo logs and also backs up the generated archive logs These logs will always be new files2. 47 Agent for Linux and Oracle Plug in 7 2 User Guide The instance control files are backed up as binary files as well as TRACE log entries The instance parameter files init lt ORACLE_SID gt ora and or sp ile ORACLE SID ora depending on the version and configuration of Oracle and the Oracle password file are also backed up Note OS and Oracle Configuration files that are not instance specific suchas kernel parameters tnsnames ora sqlnet ora and listener ora are not backed up by the Plug in You can back these up using an ordinary file based Agent 7 4 Restores Restores might be necessary in a variety of situations e Arequirement to restore the full database e With no system backup restoring the system from the ground up bare metal installing the OS applications and then the full database plus any transaction logs onto a new system If there is an Oracle backup and a full system backup restore the system putting back the contents of ORACLE HOME specifically the database installation You may safely exclude the data files and archive logs that are backed up by the Plug in Finally restore the Oracle backup and copy the required components to the appropriate directories Follow the standard user managed Oracle recovery procedure outlined in the appropriate OS Oracle Backup and Recovery Guide available on the Oracle website An Oracle restore process is performed by a Database Administrator Briefl
3. 7 2 User Guide Below each Job in the left pane are Safesets and Logs Safesets are sets of backup data sequentially numbered on the vault They remain until their retention date configured by you expires Double click a backup Safeset to see its properties Safeset Properties Job toothome Catalog number 00000001 Location 192 168 4 12 Status Online Backup time 26 JAN 2009 15 23 43 00 0500 Storage size Original 14 9 MB Deltizzd 14 9 MB Compressed 14 8 MB Backup type Full delta Retention Days 7 Copies 7 Archive Days 0 Encrypted No Compressed Yes Media type Disk Tape label Expiry 02 FEB 2009 15 23 49 00 0500 Log files are the system transcripts of what happened while the backup synch or restore function proceeded Double clicking on a log will display the contents which you can also print 29 Agent for Linux and Oracle Plug in 7 2 User Guide 5 Restoring There are several reasons for which you might want to restore e Torecover one or more data files or directories You can restore them to their original location overwriting any that are there or restore them to a different location on that disk so that you can then decide on which files you want to copy restore e To recover data that was backed up from one computer to be restored on another similar computer system e To recover a complete system i e perform a disaster recovery when the original system has been
4. NFSv4 ACLs but the Agent will protect them as extended attributes 32 Agent for Linux and Oracle Plug in 7 2 User Guide 5 2 Cross Computer Restores From the menus select Options gt Restore from another computer This starts the Job Import Wizard Import Job 12 x Welcome to the Import Job wizard This wizard allows you to import a job backed up by another computer so you will be able to restore data Cancel Help What the Restore from another computer option does is allow the user to redirect the original restore Job to a different client location It reregisters where the configuration file was originally pointing so that the restore Job can be redirected to another location It does this by getting authenticating and copying configuration information vault name computer name and Job name from the original configuration and adding it to your location so that the restore can be accomplished there The steps that the Wizard takes you through to do this are e Select an existing vault profile e Select the computer that has backed up the Job that you wish to import e Select the Job you want to restore The Wizard will now copy the Job to your local workspace If a Job already exists with that name you will receive a prompt regarding an overwrite From here the restore proceeds normally as outlined in the previous section 33 Agent for Linux and Oracle Plug in 7 2 User Gu
5. after an upgrade The log file will be used when troubleshooting in the case of failure If the upgrade fails the configuration files and executables will roll back to the previous version You may try to run the upgrade program again If it still fails contact your service provider for support Recommendation Do at least one backup for each Job after upgrading successfully This allows the Agent to upload new configuration files to the vault 2 4 Uninstalling To uninstall the Agent 1 Log onto the target system 2 Goto the installation directory by default opt BUAgent 3 Run uninstall sh A message will appear asking if you want to remove the Agent The uninstall script will Stop the Agent Select Yes to completely remove the Agent including all Job files and settings Select No to remove the Agent service entry executables and scripts This choice leaves your directory Job files and settings intact for future use 12 Agent for Linux and Oracle Plug in 7 2 User Guide If you choose to completely uninstall the Agent a confirmation prompt will appear The log will be in tmp Agent Uninstall lt timestamp gt log 13 Agent for Linux and Oracle Plug in 7 2 User Guide 3 Configuring the Agent For a newly installed Agent you can use the following steps to quickly perform your first backup The CentralControl Operations Guide describes all available features options and further d
6. and storage of data at a remote secure location vault This data is communicated to the vault from the Agent computers over a WAN LAN the Internet or imported from alternate media Agent for Linux and Oracle Plug in 7 2 User Guide 2 Installing Upgrading and Uninstalling the Agent This section describes how to install the Agent for Linux The installation requires that you have the Agent for Linux installation kit and a system running Linux There is a separate installation kit for the Oracle Plug in for Linux For more information see Installing the Oracle Plug in 2 1 System Requirements Beginning with version 7 2 the Linux Agent is available as a 64 bit application and a 32 bit application Note The 64 bit version of the Linux Agent can only be installed on 64 bit systems The 32 bit version of the Linux Agent can only be installed on 32 bit systems The Agent supports the following Linux file systems ext2 ext3 ext4 XFS GFS ReiserFS and JFS For supported platforms see the Linux Agent 64 bit and Linux Agent 32 bit release notes The usrlibacl so 1 shared library is required and must be installed on the protected system 2 1 1 Privilege Requirements M Installation To extract the installation files for the Agent no special privileges are required However to run the installation script you must have root privileges M Functional To communicate with the Agent remotely the user specified must h
7. before the Plug in e The Plug in requires a separate license usually obtained from a vault The Oracle Plug in can only find the TNS name list Ensnames ora in the global location etc oratab This may be a copy or symbolic link to the tn snames ora that was used to start the listener 7 2 4 Installing the Plug in Install the Oracle Plug in as a root user 1 Download the Oracle Plug in for Linux tar gz installation package 2 Extract the files from the package To do so type the following where PackageName is the name of the Oracle Plug in installation package gt cd tmp gt tar xvf PackageName tar 42 Agent for Linux and Oracle Plug in 7 2 User Guide 3 Next type the following where PackageName is the name of the Oracle Plug in installation package gt d cd PackageName xxxx 4 Run the installation script install sh 5 Follow the installation instructions on the screens 7 2 5 Uninstalling the Plug in Uninstall the Plug in as a root user To uninstall the Plug in run the uninstall script gt uninstallOra sh This script will be in the installation directory typically opt BUAgent After you run the uninstall script use the VVAgent script to stop and start the Agent 7 2 6 Before You Run the Plug in The Oracle Plug in performs what Oracle Corporation deems an inconsistent whole database backup requiring the database to run in ARCHIVELOG mode During a live backup
8. file system to its state at the last system backup The recovery procedure can be performed from a backup disk or directly from a vault The basic recovery procedure is 1 Install the minimal operating system including networking 2 Install and configure the Agent 3 Restore the backed up system state programs and data using the Agent 4 Perform post restore maintenance 5 Verify the restore Prior to performing a recovery ensure that your hardware configuration is at least sufficient to hold the programs data and system state previously installed on the system 6 1 Hardware Requirements It is crucial for local storage on the system to be sufficient for a full restore of programs system state and data Otherwise the restore will fail and your system may be left in an indeterminate state If any configuration files for your operating system depend on specific identifiers of installed hardware such as the MAC address of a network card ensure that this information is noted as the values may be different than when the system was backed up using the Agent Note When performing a complete system restore DR you need to ensure there is ample disk space for the creation of large recovery logs from our Agent and other possible logging or auditing from the operating system Using file level logging on a system containing a large file system can generate a large log which can potentially fill up the available or allocated disk spa
9. gets backed up separately Disabling hard link pre scanning means that if there are hard links in the file selection list they will be backed up more than once On restore the hard link relationship will not be re established Each file will be restored individually and applications depending on hard links may not be automatically restored Additionally the restore may require more space than the size of original backup 27 Agent for Linux and Oracle Plug in 7 2 User Guide 4 2 Check the Backup results After a backup scheduled or ad hoc you can check the results for success or any possible errors Note that you may have chosen in Agent Configuration to be notified by email of successful or failed backups Process Information Current process Delete Entry Agent Unix Files Directories processed 3 Process DF53 Files Directories data processed 1 1 KB Job UnixBack Safeset data processed 32 0 KB Command Backup Status Backup completed Processes are the Jobs that the system has performed such as backups synchs and restores If you select Processes in the left pane you can see a list of processes Double clicking on one will show you the details These processes will normally be deleted after approximately one hour in this list To ensure an accurate current picture of the processes you must perform a Synchronize operation 28 Agent for Linux and Oracle Plug in
10. lost 5 1 Restoring a Backup Restoring a backup is the most common usage allowing you to recover anything from a single file a directory structure to a complete system To start a restore Job select highlight a Job and then perform one of these actions e Choose Actions gt Restore e Click the Restore icon or use CTRL R e Right click a Job in the left pane 30 Agent for Linux and Oracle Plug in 7 2 User Guide ifiunixagents vws DE XI File Edit View Tools Actions Help e x 8 amp Backup Restore Synchronize ity Up One Refresh Delete Properties E He Ux 210 Name Size Type Last Modifie E Processes Cj safesets Folder Hs Logs Folder Expand vat 4 Quick 1 05KB JobProp 14 APR 2010 14 24 03 0 ry 2 Delete ry vac us Backup v2t rj vat A uat Synchronize A 7 Refresh vat 4 yo Properties 4 v200nfs sol j v2000pto d v20 tmp j v200usr0 j v200veryveryverylong gt F2 E E Ec E e E L E FF EH FEE EH Starts a restore operation on the selected agent A The Restore Wizard starts allowing you to e Select a type of source device vault or directory Depending on what you choose here you may also select a vault and a backup You can also choose to restore from a particular safeset or from a range of Safesets e Enter the password if the backup is encrypted You may not see this screen if the backup
11. or Plug in you might not use here depending on your system and company organization policies Vaults Adds new Vaults and edits and or deletes existing ones e New You want to select a new existing vault and enter the following information supplied by the vault service provider e Registration The first time is always New Re Registration is used for changes to the profile e Profile Name A meaningful name that points to your account on the vault e Network Address vault machine address IP or server name e Ports Use a communication port 18 Agent for Linux and Oracle Plug in 7 2 User Guide e Reconnection How to reconnect if there are communication problems e Authentication Account user name and password to access your vault account Retention Decide on the number of days online copies online and number of days archived for your backups This may affect the cost of your backups Notification Do you want to be alerted by emails to successful or failed backups Plug ins Allows you to set and use optional Plug in software 3 4 Create a Job This named Job can be one of many used to do different types of backups in different ways at different times Hi UnixAgents Ws IDE x File Edit View Tools Actions Help x R es E Up One Refresh Delete Properties Backup Restore Synchronize fig Workspace UnixAgents vwS Name T selme Last Mov t expand iome a Jo
12. the scheduled entry or entries The Add and Options buttons work as described in preceding sections Click OK when you finish 22 Agent for Linux and Oracle Plug in 7 2 User Guide 3 5 Schedule the Job This Job can be run at predetermined times All Jobs can also be run manually ad hoc when desired ifiunixagents vws CE XI File Edit View Tools Actions Help gt u ox B Up One Refresh Delete Properties Fig Workspace UnixAgents vwS Name To Size Type Last Mon Backup zestore Syncronize 8 A expand Job 14 APR 2010 14 24 04 Delete Job 14 APR 2010 14 24 04 Job 14 APR 2010 14 24 04 HP i Job 14 APR 2010 14 24 04 Agent Configuration Job 14 APR 2010 14 24 04 veryveryverylongjob Job 14 APR 2010 14 24 04 Refresh dule 768 bytes Schedule 13 APR 2010 14 42 29 al 1 86KB Settings 14 APR 2010 15 28 34 Properties F2 ipgd log 1 7 29KB Log 14 APR 2010 14 25 17 Install 18 77 KB Log 14 APR 2010 14 25 30 register Obytes Log 13 APR 2010 14 42 27 E vaultverify log 1 2 38KB Log 14 APR 2010 14 25 17 V Agent 1 34 67 KB Log 14 APR 2010 15 28 40 Es VVAgent 2 12 38KB Log 14 APR 2010 16 15 18 B Inventry 68 bytes Report 14 APR 2010 16 15 11 6 gt Display edit schedule entries 4 Start the scheduling from Tools gt Schedule Entries or right click on a selected Agent in the left pane This brings up the Schedule List screen F
13. up o Raw devices are not backed up o Remote databases are not backed up e The database must run in ARCHIVELOG mode and the user under which the backup is configured must have SYSDBA privileges 7 2 Installing the Oracle Plug in The Oracle Plug in integrates into existing architecture and allows you to protect Oracle databases The Agent also performs recovery processes providing data that you can use to recover Oracle databases Installing the Oracle Plug in for Linux requires that you have previously installed the Linux Agent application The Oracle Plug in installation kit is provided in a tar gz file t Oracle Corporation recommends that backups take place in periods of low database activity 41 Agent for Linux and Oracle Plug in 7 2 User Guide Note For information about creating a new Agent creating a backup Job scheduling backups and disaster recovery refer to the operations guides and user guides 7 2 1 System Requirements You can determine which version of Oracle you have by querying BANNER from VS VERSION or VERSION from VS INSTANCE SELECT banner FROM v version SELECT version FROM vSinstance 7 2 2 Supported Platform Combinations e See the latest release notes 7 2 3 Before Installing or Upgrading e The Agent and the Oracle Plug in must be installed on the system that has the Oracle database server e The Agent must be installed
14. use the What s This help the in the upper right corner for further information about the fields You can also use the main Help F1 for information and assistance 16 Agent for Linux and Oracle Plug in 7 2 User Guide If the F1 Help screen is open even minimized the What s This help will not be active The F1 help must be closed for the What s This help to function 2 3 Save the Workspace Save the default workspace as a named workspace To save all your configurations Agents Jobs and options you must save your workspace with a name of your choice CentralControl will prompt you to save any changes before you exit the application You can save more than one workspace but only open one at a time Hj UnixAgents Ws ICE x File Edit View Tools Actions Help Expand x Ah E a e Delete Properties Nome Site Type Last Modifie New Agent New Group Backup Restore New Workspace Open Workspace Save Workspace Save Workspace As Recent Workspaces Workspace Password Exit Save the active workspace A Choose a meaningful name for your workspace As well as saving the current workspace as a new name you may create new ones open existing ones save the current one and see the recent ones Because a workspace contains important user names and passwords necessary for access to do backups it is advisable to optionally encrypt th
15. was not encrypted If you have lost the password you cannot access the backup data e Select the restore objects files or directories You can expand the directories if available and select or deselect files to include in the restore e Enter the restore destination options You may choose to restore files to their original locations or to alternate locations create sub directories overwrite already existing files e Select the other restore options You may overwrite files that are locked choose all streams or just data streams You may choose to create a log file with different levels of detail Press the Finish button to start the restore process The restore proceeds and the process information is displayed You may wish to review the log file afterwards Recovery logs are prefixed with RST in the log listings 31 Agent for Linux and Oracle Plug in 7 2 User Guide 5 1 1 Symbolic Links A symbolic link also called a symlink or soft link consists of a special type of file that serves as a reference to another file or directory A symbolic link contains a path that identifies the target of the symbolic link The term orphan refers to a symbolic link whose target has moved or been deleted During a backup a symbolic link gets backed up with the timestamp of the link Restoring a symbolic link sets its modification date and time to the date and time of the restore rather than the date and time of the symbolic
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17. Germany en US is English USA es ES is Spanish Spain fr FR is French France Refer to the information in the help option for more information about the language selection Agent for Linux and Oracle Plug in 7 2 User Guide Note Web CentralControl will use its own language selection which may be different from this to display its log files 2 2 5 Kernel Configuration Parameters You may see core dumps that are related to the limit of semaphores on the system Semaphore limits can be increased in the kernel configuration parameters Note Please refer to the latest Agent release notes for the recommended minimum semaphore values If another program requires a larger value than specified in the release notes use the larger value 2 3 Upgrading the Agent This Agent version supports upgrades from Agent 5 x and above Before you upgrade the Agent ensure that your system meets the minimum requirements described in the release notes Upgrading an Agent includes the following tasks 1 Preparing the Computer 2 Upgrading Program Files and Configuration Files 3 Running the upgrade installation Job When you run the installation kit the Agent is upgraded and the following tasks are automatically performed e Configuration files are upgraded e All Delta files are upgraded to the new version format e Abackup of the old Global vvc Job vvc and Delta files is saved under a subdirectory of Agent installation di
18. IST of the U S Department of Commerce to be the new Federal Information Processing Standard FIPS The EVault Software Agent and EVault Software Director applications also have the security feature of an over the wire encryption method Agent for Linux and Oracle Plug in 7 2 User Guide Contents E introduction etii ini rie OE orien orien bici ERE 1 1 1 New Feature in Version 7 20 ee eo n cbe eee esu rate dle esie 1 1 2 Overview EVault Software essen nennen enne nnne en tenter snnt rennen en 1 1 2 1 Agent SOftWares aa sce nte ue rao ERR RE Een eue E YR AR U YE e ERR PE ER ERRNV v ERR ERR dS 1 1 2 2 Oracle Plug in Software ccccscssscecececsssessaececececessesauaecececsseessaeaeeeeeesseessaeseeeeeens 2 1 2 3 CentralControl Software seco er e er tet n eet cannesdeveencevteesbdessdeeveessseenes 2 1 2 4 Configuring and Controlling Agents using CentralControl esssse 2 1 2 5 Director vault Software rete tortor PR ET AA AENEA EERENS 3 2 Installing Upgrading and Uninstalling the Agent eeeeeeeee creer eene nennen 4 2 1 System Requirements aussi tieee ente ee Renee tha naxeiabed dectananctectosdesctebasexeneeed decnensaetiected 4 2 1 1 Privilege Requirements eerie eee ee me T i T E e UE ex E e esa T Inn 4 2 2 Installing the Agent c cccccccccssssssssecececesessesseaeeeeececesseasaeeeceessessesaeaeseeeeeseeseaeaeeeeeeeseeees 5 2 2 1 Installation Sc
19. addition you might need to enable ACL support on a partition before you can configure it If you attempt to restore ACLs to an incompatible system e g a file system that does not support ACLs the ACLs will not be restored An error message will appear in the backup log If you restore to a compatible system e g the original system or a different system with the same variety of Linux ACLs will also be restored Since ACLs are associated with user and group IDs you will observe the following on a compatible system e If the group user names and IDs on the restored system match those of the original system the ACLs will be associated with the same user name as on original system e If the group user names and IDs on the restored system do not match those on the original system the ACLs will be associated with a different user or group name compared to the original system 34 Agent for Linux and Oracle Plug in 7 2 User Guide If the group or user name ID does not exist on the restored system the ACLs will be associated with the user ID or group ID respectively Therefore browsing ACLs on these files will show user group IDs as opposed to user group names 35 Agent for Linux and Oracle Plug in 7 2 User Guide 6 System Recovery The purpose of this chapter is to illustrate techniques for recovering a file system The procedures provided describe the minimum resources and information required to rebuild the
20. and Oracle Plug in 7 2 User Guide Prescanning reads through the file system gets each inode and stores it in a map The larger the file system the more memory this map requires and the more time it takes to process Prescanning only makes a difference on hard linked files These share the same initial inode and are therefore the same file Hard linked files can only exist on the same disk They cannot cross disk boundaries Backup single instance option is selected If this option is set this is the default the backup is slower as a second pass of the file selection pre scan is required to follow all the links Some files may have many hard links and the process of searching them all may take considerable time The backup size is smaller as only one copy inode of the data is backed up as well as all the links Unix Options Backup a single instance of all selected hard linked files This requires a pre scan pass through the file selection The pre scan process can take a significant amount of time and memory depending on the number of files in the file selection hard links may not cross physical file system boundaries On a restore to original or alternate location the data with a new inode and its hard links are restored Backup single instance option is not selected If this option is not set not checked it makes the backup faster but the total backup size is larger as each link occurrence
21. and accounts on one or more Vaults 4 Create a Job Each Agent on CentralControl has Jobs with names that are unique to that Agent Other Agents may have similar or different Job names even if they perform similar functions A named Job can be one of many for different types of backups in different ways at different times When 14 Agent for Linux and Oracle Plug in 7 2 User Guide you create a Job specify a profile that you have created This allows you to access the vault i e your account 5 Schedule the Job You can run your Job at predetermined times You can also run it manually ad hoc whenever you want When you have completed these steps you are ready to run a backup The remainder of this chapter describes the steps in more detail Backups are described in the next chapter 3 2 Create an Agent Profile This is the named function that will initiate the backups You may at this stage when you create the Agent continue right through to creating a Job configuring the vault and running the backup This chapter though will describe the steps for configuration only as outlined here with the backup being run as described in the next chapter iflunixAgents vws IDE x File Edit View Tools Actions Help gt wx S lp One Refresh Delete Properties Works pace tu nix amp gent s NAA Last Modifie New Agent New Group Refresh Backup Restore Syricaranize Add a new ag
22. any changes to the database will be written to archive logs The DBA should ensure that the database is in ARCHIVELOG mode SELECT log mode FROM v database The value ARCHIVELOG should return Otherwise follow the normal Oracle procedure for putting the database in ARCHIVELOG mode This is typically shutdown normal startup mount gt gt alter database archivelog gt archive log start gt alter database open In Oracle this is done directly from SQL Plus You can also put the database in ARCHIVELOG mode when you initially set it up Alternatively you can use the Enterprise Manager GUI or other DBA tools 43 Agent for Linux and Oracle Plug in 7 2 User Guide No tablespaces can be in backup mode before a backup Job starts You can verify this with SELECT d file name b status FROM dba_data_files d vSbackup b WHERE b file d file id If any files display with ACTIVE status the backup Job will not start Note The Agent leaves the database in an appropriate state when a backup completes successfully Before you can use the Oracle Plug in to create backup Jobs a license must be available on the vault See the vault operations manual for more information 44 Agent for Linux and Oracle Plug in 7 2 User Guide 7 3 Backups 7 3 1 Table of Backup information Before you perform Oracle database backup or restore processes be sure that you have al
23. as part of the systems recovery planning The specific Jobs to be performed for verification depend on the application environment and the system s importance Once the system is restored the integrity of the recovery must be verified The test can be as simple as placing a duplicate file in a different directory structure and testing for any differences within the file Then confirm that the file can be opened using a known application and that you are able to send e mail to a known address It can also be as complex as completing an SQL query on a known database set Whatever the test both the list and the test itself must be planned and executed during normal system operation 38 Agent for Linux and Oracle Plug in 7 2 User Guide 6 2 5 Recovery Problems Should any of the recovery Jobs fail consider these questions Was the system restored using the same version of OS What possible differences were there in the hardware or software settings that could have affected the recovery e Were any errors reported in the error log file Were all the necessary drivers installed e Were the applicable OS patches added e Was there sufficient disk space to handle all of the restored data 39 Agent for Linux and Oracle Plug in 7 2 User Guide 7 Oracle Plug in 7 1 Overview The Oracle Plug in is an add on to the Linux Agent that allows you to perform database backups on Oracle databases The Plug in is installed o
24. ave full root privileges Note Enhanced privileges are required for the User ID that you use for Windows CentralControl Agent authentication To log in to the account The User ID must be enabled The User ID must not be suspended or locked out due to invalid password attempts The password must not have expired The User ID should not have time of day limits for when you can log in The User ID must belong to the root group Agent for Linux and Oracle Plug in 7 2 User Guide For additional security rather than disabling the account you can set the shell to be bin false This can usually be done with the following command usermod s bin false buagent If you are running an ftp server for additional security it may be necessary to review the ftp server configuration to deny logins for this User ID It is often sufficient to ensure bin false is not listed as a valid shell in etc shells Your server may vary Note You can install the Agent from fresh or upgrade it 2 2 Installing the Agent The installation kit typically comes as a tar gz file This must be unzipped only on the machine it is intended for the target machine That is do not unzip it on another type of machine This may cause unpredictable results The amount of disk space needed for the installation varies from system to system In all cases the installation program will determine if there is enough disk space for the installation t
25. b 14 APR 2010 14 24 04 Delete fs sol Job 14 APR 2010 14 24 04 Dpt Job 14 APR 2010 14 24 04 New Job mp Job 14 APR 2010 14 24 04 Agent Configuration sr Job 14 APR 2010 14 24 04 Schedule Entries eryveryverylongjob Job 14 APR 2010 14 24 04 Refresh dule 768 bytes Schedule 13 APR 2010 14 42 29 1 86KB Settings 14 APR 2010 15 28 34 Properties Dgd log 1 7 29KB Log 14 APR 2010 14 25 17 18 77 KB Log 14 APR 2010 14 25 30 register Obytes Log 13 APR 2010 14 42 27 E vaultverify log 1 2 38KB Log 14 APR 2010 14 25 17 VvAgent 1 34 67 KB Log 14 APR 2010 15 28 40 Es VVAgent 2 12 38KB Log 14 APR 2010 16 15 18 B Inventry 68 bytes Report 14 APR 2010 16 15 11 0 gt Add a new job to the agent A Select New Job to start the New Job Wizard a program that asks you questions and prompts for details regarding the new Job e Backup source type choose a local drive or mapped network drives e Vault profile choose an existing one created earlier or branch out from this Wizard and create a new one here 19 Agent for Linux and Oracle Plug in 7 2 User Guide e Job name choose a unique meaningful Job name e File list backup source Select Data files You can include exclude files and subdirectories e Set the options Quick File Scanning on off and Backup time Options These are also accessible in the Schedule Job Wizard e Select an encryption type choose one from
26. cates its backup data directly to the vault The Agent requires a license from the vault The Agent software consists of these components e The backup process VV which performs backup and restore functions e The Agent VVAgent or BUAgent which runs as a daemon 1 2 2 Oracle Plug in Software The Oracle Plug in is an add on to the Agent It allows a user to perform a database backup on an Oracle database The Plug in is installed on top of the Agent on the database host to perform the backups either on demand or scheduled The Plug in requires a license separate from the Agent from the vault 1 2 3 CentralControl Software Windows CentralControl and Web CentralControl provide a centralized point of control for managing all computers running the Agent software on a large computer network The CentralControl applications can centrally control Windows and Unix Linux Agents Generally within an organization the configuration and scheduling of backup and restore Jobs is done through the computer running the CentralControl software CentralControl connects to an organization s computers running the Agent software activating that computer s backup Job 1 2 4 Configuring and Controlling Agents using CentralControl The Agent program runs as a service on the server computer that will be backed up One CentralControl program controls many different Agents on many different servers on a network You need to provide names passwords a
27. ce If the logs are on the same partition as the root file system this may prevent the OS from booting 36 Agent for Linux and Oracle Plug in 7 2 User Guide 6 2 Software Requirements Ensure that the appropriate installation media is available The minimum system software includes e Installation media identical to that installed on the original system e Any necessary OS patches to install the Agent as described in the installation instructions for the Agent on the OS e Agent Installation media identical to that installed on the original system 6 3 Recovery Steps This section describes the steps to perform a system recovery 6 2 1 Install the minimal operating system Follow the instructions in your operating system manual and installation media to install a minimal operating system e When prompted to partition your drive s ensure that the partitions are large enough to restore to they should be at least as large as the original partitions e f restoring over the network TCP IP network services must be installed and configured appropriately and there must be a connection between the system and the backup vault e f restoring from a directory on disk there must be sufficient disk space to handle all the restored data 6 2 2 Install and configure the Agent 1 Install the Agent according to the instructions in this manual appropriate for your operating system 2 Configure the Agent according to the inst
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29. e Exclude screen which displays a hierarchy of the disks and directories that you may select from for the backup 20 Agent for Linux and Oracle Plug in 7 2 User Guide W Include Exclude 24x Ee 7 bin boot Cg etc Cg evault Cj home Q b SR lost found QJ media Qj mnt Qj opt Cg root GY sbin GY selinux sv GY tmp f uer Path Recursive Cj etc x Yes C Alost found No Cancel EHE EH EHI EH EEE EEEE H Exclude Hemove tem You can open the tree in the left pane by clicking on the signs The files in that directory are displayed in the right pane where you can select one or more files Use the CTRL key and the mouse to select multiple files in that directory Click Include The file directory names are moved to the lower part of the screen The Remove Item button allows you to un select names from this lower list if you change your mind before you click the OK button If you have a directory with a large number of files and you want to select most of them it might be easier to Include them all and then Exclude from the list the ones you don t want You may also select one directory folder at a time to be backed up When you click Include you will get a message asking if you want to include all files or just some of them which match your selection criteria filter Recursive means to include all files and directories be
30. e can be closed normally and restarted with RESETLOGS for example Note Oracle parameter files are backed up to a different directory by default 49
31. ect to a database that listens on a port other than the default the format for the Database Service Name is service name port number for example orcl 1523 7 3 2 Oracle Instance Protection To back up an Oracle database install the Agent on the same system as the Oracle database server Create a new Job using Oracle as the Backup Source Type The New Job wizard will direct you through the process Briefly the steps are 1 From the Web CentralControl GUI program which communicates with the Agent and the Plug in create a new Job 2 Select Oracle for the Backup Source Type New J b J Job Confagaratean Backup Source Typs Job Type Satertion The Oracle Options will appear on the page 46 Agent for Linux and Oracle Plug in 7 2 User Guide 3 Supply the Database Service Name User Name and Password In Web CentralControl set the Database Service Name to the Database Instance from Oracle rather than the nstance Name from Oracle In Windows CentralControl set the Oracle Service Name to the Database Instance from Oracle rather than the Instance Name from Oracle Jobs back up only one database at a time There can be more than one Job doing backups on different databases but you cannot run multiple Jobs at the same time on the same database Note If you are connecting to a database where a domain name has been included in the tnsnames ora you may have to use the following connection string
32. ent to the workspace AL To create an Agent profile you must have the Workspace selected highlighted From here you may either e From the pull down menus use File gt New Agent or 15 Agent for Linux and Oracle Plug in 7 2 User Guide e Right click on the workspace and then click on New Agent This brings up an Agent Properties screen e Description a description meaningful to you e Network Address either the IP or name of the server the Agent software is on e Port the communications port number reserved for this service the default is 808 e User name authentication to communicate with the Agent service e Password password assigned to the user above e Check to save the password saves the password on this machine with CentralControl e Domain Windows domain if applicable Click the Check Status button to ensure the communication is valid and you can talk to the remote Agent If not check with your support or vault service provider Click OK to exit the Status window and OK again to finish and exit the New Agent window Your new Agent s name will show up in the left pane of the CentralControl GUI Agent Status System name Network address Operating system OS wersion Agent type Agent version Agent build date Pracess number x1111 182 1682 10 Ure Linux 2 6 96 1 585 EVauk Agent 6 733142 Aug 13 2010 21 30 26 11424 Note In this screen and others you can
33. es during installation It works with the install sh script but not the register script 2 2 2 Starting and Stopping the Agent Stop and Start commands for the Agent are determined by the specific OS version that you use They are actually rc run control scripts You can determine the location of these scripts by viewing the Install log The vvagent script is used to start stop or check the status of both vvagent for Agents controlled by Windows CentralControl and buagent for Agents controlled by Web CentralControl This single script affects both vvagent and buagent For example Linux etc init d vvagent start stop restart status n u mod In this example stop start restart and status are the parameters 2 2 3 Web CentralControl Registration During Agent installation you are prompted to register the Agent with Web CentralControl You are also asked to choose a default language for email and command line log viewing After installation you can change the registration reregister and or the default language You must stop the Agent before reregistering and you must restart it for the changes to take effect Registration Script Run Agent installation directory gt register to register the Agent with Web CentralControl If you are already registered to a Web CentralControl server you will see Do you wish to register as a new computer This will invalidate your previo
34. ese workspaces so that unauthorized users cannot gain access to them The Workspace Password option allows you to add or change a password as well as choose from encryption types with different cipher strengths If this is the first time that you are using a password here there will not be an Old Password so leave that field blank Select an encryption type and create a password case sensitive If you lose this password you will need to recreate the workspace 17 Agent for Linux and Oracle Plug in 7 2 User Guide 3 3 Configure the vault Agent Configuration Configure the vault with Agent Configuration i e Agent Properties These are the properties that the Agent will use to connect to this vault The settings are specific to the Agent and affect all Jobs run under that Agent fi Unixagents Ws i CE XI File Edit View Tools Actions Help e wo ox Bw Up One Refresh Delete Properties Backup Restore Synchronize fig Workspace UnixAgents vWS Name Size Type O Last Modifie E oe a Expand Delete New Job Agent Configuration Schedule Entries Refresh Properties Display edit agent configuration Z You can start the Agent Configuration from either the Tools gt Agent Configuration pull down menus or by right clicking on a selected Agent in the left pane The Agent Configuration screen has several tabs available Some such as Notification
35. etails An Agent configures manages runs and monitors backup Jobs You can manage and control many Agents through one CentralControl application GUI An Agent can have multiple Jobs A Job defines the parameters associated with backups restores and other processes Parameters can include file selections and filters compression and encryption settings A Job can belong to only one Agent Job names are unique on that Agent A Profile defines the vault configuration that your Agent will use It matches a Job to an account on a vault The Job uses the profile to validate the backup to the vault and to know where to put the data A profile can apply to more than one Job 3 1 Steps for a QUICK START 1 Create an Agent profile This is the local name used by CentralControl of the Agent program that will initiate the backups You need an Agent profile name for each computer that you back up 2 Save the default workspace as a named workspace To save your configurations for Agents Jobs and options you need to assign a workspace name CentralControl will prompt you to save any changes You can create more than one workspace but you can open only one workspace at a time 3 Configure the vault To connect with your account on the vault create a profile with the properties of this Agent Some users may have only one profile to service one account i e all Jobs back up to a single account Others may have multiple profiles
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37. ide 5 3 Disaster Recovery Disaster Recovery is not a menu choice in the CentralControl program Rather it is a way of restoring a complete backup to a new system You would want to do this for example if a system has crashed and the disk has been replaced This is one of the times at which you would want to recover all system and user data back to that disk Reinstalling the O S applications and data is possible but you may not be able to recreate the exact state of the system that you would get with a restore of a full drive backup that included data files system state and system files A successful disaster recovery brings your new system to the state of the original system after its last full drive backup For more information see System Recovery 5 4 Restoring ACLs You can back up and restore Access Control Lists ACLs The following behaviors can occur when you restore ACLs on a Linux server ACLs control the access of users or groups to particular files Similar to regular file permissions e g owner group world ACLs are tracked by the ID of the user group ACLs provide access control granularity beyond regular file permissions and unlike regular permissions they are not always enabled ACLimplementations might differ by variety of Linux and by the type of file system Not all ACL implementations are portable i e ACLs on one OS file system may be incompatible with ACLs on another OS file system In
38. information has been entered and a schedule set up as in the previous chapter the backups will take place automatically On occasion you may need to run a one time backup for a special reason You can either use an existing Agent and Job and modify it or create one specifically for this backup Seeding and Re Seeding When you run your first Backup a full backup is created on the vault This first backup contains all the data selected for backup and is called a seed Subsequent backups are much smaller and deltas only changes in file which are applied to the first full backup to create subsequent backups This way a current full backup is always available If the Agent detects changes such as the encryption type or password changing the next backup will be a re seed In this case of a re seed your backup will take longer to complete and a message about re seeding is created in the log file 4 1 Running an Ad Hoc Backup To start an unscheduled ad hoc backup Job select highlight a Job and then perform one of these actions e Choose Actions gt Backup e Click the backup icon or use CTRL B e Right click a Job in the left pane 25 Agent for Linux and Oracle Plug in 7 2 User Guide ifiunixagents vws i CE XI File Edit View Tools Actions Help e ox 8 Up One Refresh Delete Properties Backup Restore Synchronize Ef HP Ux 210 Name Size Type Last Modifie f 4 Proces
39. l information such as names locations passwords etc that the wizard will request You can use the following table for reference System Requirement Customer User Supplied Comments Value New Job Name Job Name Name of Job to communicate with an Agent that has the Oracle Plug in Backup Source Type Oracle Choose Oracle from the dropdown menu Oracle Options database to back up and database account information Database Service Name Validates the fields and allows connection to the database In Web CentralControl set the Database User Name Service Name to the Database Instance from Oracle rather than the Instance Name from Oracle In Windows CentralControl set the Oracle Password Service Name to the Database Instance from Oracle rather than the Instance Name from Oracle Encryption type Encryption type If you select a type you must supply a password Password Password Hint Logging options Create log file Y N Log detail level Keep or purge log files Number of logs to keep 45 Agent for Linux and Oracle Plug in 7 2 User Guide System Requirement Customer User Supplied Comments Value Schedule You can run backup Jobs immediately or through a schedule You can optionally use the scheduling wizard Destination vault Vault Name Choose from the dropdown list of Directors Vaults Network Address f you conn
40. link when it was backed up 5 1 2 NFS Network File System To back up data at a local or remote mount point to a vault you can use NFS In the CentralControl application create a new Job using New Job Wizard Backup Source Type and then select Mapped Network Drive Only from the drop down list NFS servers must share their exports in order to make them available to client systems If you want to perform a mount point backup or restore the NFS server must be available and it must provide sufficient privileges to your client system Also the NFS must be mounted on your client system at the time of the backup or restore Note If you restore an NFS backup and the NFS mount does not exist the restore will proceed as if it were a local restore It will put the data on the local disk with a similar path that is local without using a mount point NFS path It will not indicate a failure If the local disk does not have sufficient space this may cause a problem If you do not realize that a restore is local and overwrite is enabled you will overwrite the local data You will think however that you are overwriting the mount point data 5 1 3 NFS support for ACLs and Extended Attributes NFS does not export extended attributes from remote file systems On Linux NFSv3 clients remote file system ACLs will be presented as standard Linux ACLs if possible NFSv4 clients will present remote file system ACLs as native
41. low this directory Otherwise you may choose to select certain files depending on their names and extensions The asterisk means all files with any name or extension When you have finished selecting and including all the files and directories you want to be in this Backup Job click OK and you will be back at the Source screen where you can click Next to continue the next step of the New Job Wizard See the information in the preceding section about creating a Job 21 Agent for Linux and Oracle Plug in 7 2 User Guide 2 5 2 Adding Removing a File or Directory with an existing Backup Job When you first create a Backup Job you must include one or more files or directories folders See Adding a File or Directory to a new Backup Job Later you may want to add or remove files or directories from the Backup Job Select a Job in the CentralControl window and select Properties for that Job either from the icons or by right clicking or by using F2 Select the Source tab in the Properties window Job Properties roothome 24x General Advanced Log Sourc Encryption Tape Directory File _Recursive Cj root 3 No Hemave Filename Encoding Default Unicode cancel This displays the existing list of files and directories for this Backup Job You may select highlight one or more in the lower window and click Remove You will be prompted with a message Are you sure you wish to delete
42. n top of the Agent on the database host Host User Configures DB Backup and CentralControl Restore Configures Host DB Server Host Vault Agent with Di Oracle Plug In irector Database This diagram illustrates the basic product implementation A user typically a DBA configures the backup via the Web CentralControl or Windows CentralControl application CentralControl configures the Agent which typically resides on a different host from CentralControl A user can schedule a backup of the database at which time the Agent with the help of the Oracle Plug in will send the database information to the Director 40 Agent for Linux and Oracle Plug in 7 2 User Guide 7 1 1 Features e The Oracle Plug in provides ARCHIVELOG based non RMAN backups of whole online database instances All non temporary tablespaces and instance parameter files are automatically backed up e Full and partial databases are restored through normal user managed Oracle recovery mechanisms e Agents specify databases using Oracle Service Names see Oracle Instance Protection They do not require script level or backup level ORACLE HOME customization e Database passwords are encrypted for enhanced security over script based methods 7 1 2 Limitations e Only local single instance disk based databases are backed up o Database clusters are not backed
43. nd permissions to allow the Agent to connect with CentralControl 1 Each server computer to be backed up needs an Agent program installed 2 Need to connect from CentralControl to an Agent when you create a new Agent w Supply Name IP address and user password 4 Then register the computer on the vault Agent for Linux and Oracle Plug in 7 2 User Guide You must register a computer on a vault in order to log on to the vault and establish a connection The vault must be informed that this Agent is valid and is authorized to perform its functions You need to reregister a computer if you restore from another computer or perform a disaster recovery described in Chapter 4 of this guide When you create a backup Job you register information about it For example 1 Which profile i e which vault applies 2 What data does it need to back up 3 Whattypes of logs will it produce 4 Whattype of encryption if any will it use 5 When will it run Note The first backup is a seed complete backup The next and subsequent ones are deltas i e changes only but they are still considered to be full backups Depending on the configuration of your system e There might be more than one vault that you can use e OneCentralControl usually controls all of the Agents on your network e You can also back up to your own local disk 1 2 5 Director vault Software The Director controls and manages the pooling
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45. nfiguration information such as web registration address port number and authentication log file name and language selection for logs and command lines For more information see Web CentralControl Language Selection When the installation is complete a completion message will appear and the Agent daemon will be running The Install logisin the installation directory if successful For example Agent installation directory gt Install log If the installation fails and rolls back the installation log will be in the Installation Failure directory If it fails and does not roll back the installation log will be inthe Installation Kit directory 2 2 1 Installation Script install sh Commands The installation directory has a shell file called install sh The help option shows the commands that are available for installation Usage install sh options shutdown s Force the Agent shutdown if running force F Force the installation skip the initial free Space check defaults D Use the default values for installation force defaults Force the installation using the defaults assumes s and F web registration off Turns off web console registration W Agent for Linux and Oracle Plug in 7 2 User Guide web registration FILE Attempts to register to the web console with EQ W FILI the values in FILE Ed quiet Q Quiet install doe
46. ny errors show Validation failed If so you need to verify the validation information with your vault operator to make sure it is valid If the latest backup log shows no errors do a Synchronize with the vault and check the Synch log e Verify eligible vault version For every vault that you are backing up to make sure it is running Director version 6 22 or later Otherwise you need to upgrade the vault before you upgrade the Agent 2 3 2 Upgrading Program Files and Configuration Files When the installation kit is launched it detects the previously installed versions of the Agent and starts to upgrade it IMPORTANT When the upgrade process starts wait until it finishes Do not run more than one upgrade at the same time 11 Agent for Linux and Oracle Plug in 7 2 User Guide 2 3 8 Upgrading the Agent Note To Upgrade the Agent properly you must select the same installation directory that was used for the previous Agent Otherwise the Upgrade will proceed as if it were a new installation 1 Log onto the target system 2 Goto the installation kit directory 3 Download the Linux Agent tar gz installation kit Note You must do this locally i e on the target machine 4 Extract the files from the package To do so use this command where PACKAGENAME is the name of the Agent installation kit tar zxf PACKAGENAME tar gz 5 Runthe installation script gt install sh Always check the log file
47. o continue This determination also includes any temporary space required for an upgrade Before beginning the installation make certain that the following requirements and materials are available e The Agent for Linux installation kit e A target system running a supported version of Linux e Root privileges on the target system to install the product e Sufficient disk space for the new installation and later Job activities Note that if the available disk space is insufficient for a complete installation the installation directory will roll back to its original state You can override the space checking with install sh but this only applies to the initial check for actual installation space rather than extra temporary space for rolling back To install the Agent 1 Download the 64 bit or 32 bit Linux Agent tar gz installation kit Note You must do this locally i e on the target machine Note Download the correct installation kit for your system You can only install the 64 bit Linux Agent on a 64 bit system and you can only install the 32 bit Linux Agent on a 32 bit system Agent for Linux and Oracle Plug in 7 2 User Guide 2 Extract the files from the package To do so use this command in which PACKAGENAME is the name of the Agent installation kit tar zxf PACKAGENAME tar gz 3 Runthe installation script gt install sh Note The installation script will interactively prompt you for co
48. or a new installation this will be empty Click New to add a new schedule This will start the Schedule Wizard which will take you through the steps to configure a schedule e Select a Command to schedule You may choose Backup Synchronize or Custom command For now choose Backup e Select aJob from the list It shows the Target and Destination for each e Select a Backup type Note This screen will not display for a vault backup Specify a Backup type and Processing Options for local disk e Select a Retention Choose Daily Weekly or Monthly from the list This determines how long your backup will be kept online e Set the Options Choose Quick File Scanning on off and Backup Time Options These are also accessible in the Create a Job Wizard 23 Agent for Linux and Oracle Plug in 7 2 User Guide e Select a Command Cycle Choose Weekly Monthly or a Custom Cycle for backups When you have selected one and defined the days and times the Wizard will finish The command you have just created will now show in the Schedule List You may Edit Remove or Disable it If you have more than one schedule in the list you may move them up or down in position priority so that any conflicts are resolved by taking the parameters in the first highest one and overriding any others Click OK when done 24 Agent for Linux and Oracle Plug in 7 2 User Guide 4 Performing Backups Once all the Agent Configuration
49. re in Version 7 20 Linux Agent 7 2 is available as a 32 bit application and a 64 bit application For previous versions only a 32 bit version of the Agent was available You do not need to install 32 bit compatibility libraries on 64 bit Linux distributions to run the 64 bit Linux Agent 7 2 1 2 Overview EVault Software EVault Software CentralControl Director vault and Agent comprise a data protection software suite that securely backs up and restores data from servers across a network to a remote data vault The applications provide an automated lights out method for protecting your valuable computer data without the need for tape devices or other backup media This Agent for Linux amp Oracle Plug in Guide explains how to install configure and manage the Linux Agent and Oracle Plug in on individual computers The CentralControl Operations Guide and online help explains how to use the Windows CentralControl or Web CentralControl application to configure backups and restores from the computers that run the Agent 1 2 1 Agent Software Each computer that needs to be backed up must have the Agent software installed running and connected to the network The Agent runs on the computer as a background service and starts automatically when the system starts Agent for Linux and Oracle Plug in 7 2 User Guide Backups and restores on the Agent computers are configured and scheduled by the CentralControl application The Agent communi
50. rectory e Alog file will be created in Agent installation directory e All executables and documents are replaced by new versions 10 Agent for Linux and Oracle Plug in 7 2 User Guide 2 3 1 Preparing the Computer To prepare your existing machine for upgrading the Agent complete these tasks a Back up the previous Agent Files We strongly recommend that you make at least one backup of your previous Agent files including all files and subdirectories under the Agent installation directory Do not attempt an upgrade without a backup b Clean up Server Profiles in Global vvc From CentralControl open up the Agent Configuration of the Agent that you want to upgrade Go to the Vaults section look for a server configuration that is no longer in use and delete it Also highlight every server configuration and click Edit to double check that the information in this server profile is valid Then click OK to save your changes c Clean up Jobs After the Global vvc has been cleaned up check all backup Jobs to see if there is any Job backing up to a vault that has been deleted from Agent Configuration If so delete that Job If you have Jobs that are backing up to Directory on Disk they are local Jobs Leave them unchanged During the upgrade they will be registered to the first vault indicated in Agent Configuration d Synchronize all backup Jobs After cleaning up the Jobs check the backup logs of each Job to see if a
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52. ructions in section 2 of this manual It is important to reregister to the vault where the data was backed up 3 Synchronize the Job to ensure that local copies of Job catalogs are created 37 Agent for Linux and Oracle Plug in 7 2 User Guide 6 3 3 Restore the backed up system 1 Start a restore according to the instructions in section 4 of this manual 2 Select the files you wish to restore The Agent will restore most files to their original locations and protect against many known restore problems for file systems mounted in their default locations but some files may cause unpredictable results if restored These files vary by OS to OS and may generally be restored to alternative locations without problems 3 Ensure that the files are not being restored to a file system that is mounted read only Note The Agent will prevent recovery of files to critical locations but not all critical locations are necessarily detected When the recovery procedure is complete the process of verifying the integrity of the restore can commence 6 2 3 Perform post recovery maintenance If any modifications to the configuration of the restored system are required after restore these should be performed now Known post restore maintenance steps are noted below 6 2 4 Verify the recovery Once the restore procedure is complete determine if the recovery is complete and correct The listing and testing of the Jobs should be performed
53. s not echo output to the screen If user interaction is required in quiet mode the install will fail unless force defaults is specified CI log NAME L NAMI Writes the installation log to the specified FILE Eal lang NAME 1 NAM I Selects NAME as the language Must begin with an ISO language code May optionally be followed by a dash or underscore and an ISO country code e g fr fr FR and fr FR are acceptable Character set markers e g UTF 8 are ignored Languages that cannot be matched will report an error and the language will be defaulted to en US English US If not specified the language will be guessed from your system value of en US UTF 8 backup DIR B DIR Backs up the current installation of the Agent to the specified directory verify V Verifies the integrity of the installation kit help Shows this text Registration options For the web registration FILE command you can create a separate file to supply the following values as responses wccAddress ADDRESS OF AMP SERVER WCCPort PORT OF AMP SERVER Defaults to 8086 Agent for Linux and Oracle Plug in 7 2 User Guide wccLogin WEBCC USER LOGIN wccPassword WEBCC USER PASSWORD Use the values provided by your administrator in these lines for address port and login name password Note This command only appli
54. ses S Safesets Folder ES v mm Expand Logs Folder Hd Delete Quick 1 05KB JobProp 14 APR 2010 14 24 03 0 v2 v2 v2 Restore A Synchronize v2 yo Refresh FY v2 M v2 is j v2 nfs sol j v2000pto J v200tmpo T r h fF T r t Properties F2 E E E E E ET EE E EE J v200usr0 J v200veryveryverylong x gt Starts an unscheduled backup A This starts the Backup Wizard which asks you for e A destination vault or directory on disk You may choose Skip further configuration and Backup Now or click Next e Backup type and options Depending on your choice of vault or disk make selections here for type and options Note that a vault backup will skip over this screen e Retention type Select a retention scheme daily weekly or monthly This is the same as in the scheduling of Jobs e Other options Quick file scanning and backup time options This is the same as in the scheduling of Jobs e Click Finish to complete the configuration and start the backup 4 1 1 File Backup Options The File Backup Options will have Unix Options enabled for Linux Agents Note A hard link is a reference or pointer to physical data on a storage volume The name associated with the file is simply a label that refers the operating system to the actual data As such more than one name can be associated with the same data 26 Agent for Linux
55. the list or none You must supply a password if you choose to encrypt your data on the vault The data cannot be recovered if you lose the password e Configure the logs set log options and log copies Choices here depend on your backup activity and your need for detailed logs and their length of retention Changes here only affect the logs that will be created not those already created e Finish Run immediately schedule a backup or just exit To do an ad hoc backup we could choose to run this Job immediately For this chapter we are going to schedule the Job to run later Choose either Schedule a Backup and go to the next section or Exit and start the schedule in the next section 2 5 1 AddingaFile or Directory to a new Backup Job When you first create a Backup Job you must include one or more files or directories folders You may modify this list of files and directories afterwards In the New Job Wizard described in the previous section the Source screen asks you to select files and or directories to include in the Backup If you are selecting Data Files the Options button allows you to select Backup files opened for write that is shared read not opened exclusive or back up a single instance of all selected hard linked files This requires a pre scan pass through the file selection See File Backup Options Click Add to start adding files directories to the list to be backed up This brings up the Includ
56. us registration y N Agent for Linux and Oracle Plug in 7 2 User Guide For a new registration or a reregistration you will be prompted as follows What is the Web based CentralControl address to cancel What is the Web based CentralControl connection port to cancel What is your Web based CentralControl username to cancel What is your Web based CentralControl password to cancel The address is the name or IP address of Web CentralControl The port number is defined by the Web CentralControl Administrator Your user name password authentication is set by the Web CentralControl Administrator 2 2 4 Web CentralControl Language Selection During the Agent installation you are prompted to register the Agent to Web CentralControl You are also asked to choose a default language for email and command line log viewing After installation you can change the registration new or reregister and or the default language The Agent must be restarted for these changes to take effect Language Selection Run Agent installation directory set language to specify the language that the local Agent will use for e mails and command line log viewing Specify the language that should be used by default for e mails and command line log viewing The Agent knows the following languages de D LH en US S ES fr FR Which language do you want en US de DE is German
57. y the steps are 1 Shutdown the database 2 Restore the files using Restore to an Alternate Location 3 If the files have been renamed you must change them back to their original file names i e control files 4 If necessary reset the control information for the database 5 Start and recover the database 6 Re open the database for use The Plug in does not do table level restores 48 Agent for Linux and Oracle Plug in 7 2 User Guide 7 4 1 Guidelines for Restoring The Oracle Plug in has been tested in several data recovery scenarios Note For a full disaster recovery in which the full database instance is restored be careful when you recover the database because the Plug in does not back up TEMPORARY tablespaces Start the database recovery with an explicit PFILE or SPFILE reference SQL gt STARTUP PFILE path to pfileMinitSIDNAME ora It may be necessary to take the temporary tablespace files offline SQL gt ALTER DATABASE DATAFILE path to datafile OFFLINE Restore the database as usual but when you open it after recovery use this command SQL gt ALTER DATABASE OPEN NORESETLOGS TEMPORARY tablespaces should be dropped the data files for the temporary tablespaces should be removed and the TEMPORARY tablespaces should be recreated this may include the default TEMP tablespace At this point the databas
58. y Eric Young The Windows versions of these algorithms also include software written by Tim Hudson Bruce Schneier designed Blowfish encryption Part of the software embedded in this product is gSOAP software Portions created by gSOAP are Copyright 2001 2006 Robert A van Engelen Genivia Inc All Rights Reserved THE SOFTWARE IN THIS PRODUCT WAS IN PART PROVIDED BY GENIVIA INC AND ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE ARE DISCLAIMED IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHOR BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT INDIRECT INCIDENTAL SPECIAL EXEMPLARY OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS OR SERVICES LOSS OF USE DATA OR PROFITS OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY WHETHER IN CONTRACT STRICT LIABILITY OR TORT INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE The EVault Software Agent EVault Software CentralControl and EVault Software Director applications versions 4 and above now have the added encryption option of AES Advanced Encryption Standard Advanced Encryption Standard algorithm named Rijndael pronounced Rain Doll was developed by cryptographers Dr Joan Daemen and Dr Vincent Rijmen This algorithm was chosen by the National Institute of Standards and Technology N
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