Veritas Storage Foundation™ for Oracle 5.0.1 Administrator's Guide

Using Veritas NetBackup for

database backup

This chapter includes the following topics:

■ About using Veritas NetBackup for backup and restore

■ Using Veritas NetBackup to backup and restore Quick I/O files

■ About using Veritas NetBackup to backup and restore Oracle Disk Manager

files

About using Veritas NetBackup for backup and restore

Veritas NetBackup provides for high performance, online (hot) backups of

databases that must be available on a 24x7 basis, as well as offline (cold) database

backups. Veritas NetBackup lets you back up and restore database files and

directories. You can set up schedules for automatic, unattended, online, and offline

database backup, as well as full or incremental backup. These backups are managed

entirely by the NetBackup server. You can also manually back up database files

from any of the NetBackup clients. Client users can perform database backups

and restores from their client systems on demand.

Using Veritas NetBackup to backup and restore Quick

I/O files

If you are using NetBackup for Oracle, then you should use Oracle RMAN to backup

and restore Quick I/O files.

Veritas NetBackup does not follow symbolic links when backing up files. Typical

backup management applications are designed this way to avoid backing up the

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