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19 Setting Up the Dell™ DR Series System as an NFS or CIFS Backup Target on Oracle Recovery Manager® |
April 2015
4 Configuring a backup job on RMAN over an NFS target
4.1 Create a storage device for NFS
For NFS backup using RMAN, a target folder needs to be created as an NFS share directory. This is the
location to which backup objects will be written. (This is not required while adding CIFS share.)
1. Mount the DR Series System NFS share onto the NFS share directory which backup objects will be
written in the RMAN environment.
2. For example:
mount –t nfs <ip address of DRXXXX>:/containers/sample
/mnt/RMANtargetContainer
3. Verify the NFS share. One way is to try using the Linux command “cat /proc/mounts”. The rsize
and wsize of the connects in the command output should be 512K.
In the RMAN settings use the below command to add the NFS mount path as device.
CONFIGURE CHANNEL DEVICE TYPE DISK MAXOPENFILES 1 FORMAT '/<Mount point path
on RMAN server>/ora_df%t_s%s_s%p';
Note: Please follow the instructions in Section 3 as the backup and other settings are the same as that of
CIFS.