HP Data Protector Operations Guide

RMAN, in conjunction with the Data Protector oracle integration, can perform backups and
restores. In order for RMAN initiated backups and restores to be successful, you need to add
certain other users to Data Protector:
• For Data Protector 6.1 on UNIX systems, add the users root and the oradba account. For
Oracle, you need to add the RAC root and oracle dba account.
• For Data Protector 6.11 on UNIX systems, you only need to add the oradba account. The root
account is no longer needed by the Oracle integration in Data Protector 6.11.
• For Data Protector 6.1 and Data Protector 6.11 on Windows systems, add the account used
to install the Oracle software as a Data Protector user.
The Group field in the ownership part of the backup specification does not correspond to a user
group; it corresponds to a UNIX user’s group or to a Windows domain name. In Data Protector, a
Data Protector user always corresponds to an Operating System user. For example, you can see
the ownership of a backup when you look at the session list for the last day using the command
omnidb –session –last 1:
Notice the column
User.Group@Host.
You can see that there are 2 different users: local Haptic administrator and domain XST
momadmin. The domain name is what you need to enter in the Group field in the ownership part
of the backup specification.
Data Protector does not have the functionality to add groups of users to the ownership part of a
backup specification. The current Data Protector functionality does not allow a Data Protector user
to be added for groups of systems. It is possible to separate users and what they see and are
allowed to do, using templates.
If you have selected the user right “See Private Objects”, the user can see and restore private
objects, but can only restore files that the user backed up. If the user needs to be able to restore
from one of the scheduled backups, define the user as the owner of the backup specification. This
will allow the user to browse and restore the data. Refer to the on-line help index “ownership” for
details.
It is possible to backup other clients with "Start Backup" being the only user right selected.
According to the help for the "Start Backup" user right, you should only be able to backup your
own client. I thought maybe Data Protector was getting some rights from the operating system,
since this ID had admin rights on the operating system, so I moved this ID from administrator to
user and I can still backup/restore other clients data.
Device management
This chapter describes common media management tasks, and hints and tips for media
management.
Poor media
When are media marked poor?
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