1) if you need to create a one-off backup to create a clone from. sdtperfmeter - a graphical monitoring of cpu, pagi How to generate a script to rebuild unusable index How to display session information, followed by a How to use SYS_CONTEXT to display user information. From the Setup Cloud PaaS Infrastructure Zones menu How to restore ZDLRA database from tape at DR site where no ZDLRA configured? 1#mkdir -p /u01/app/oracle/oradata/rmandb#chown -R oracle /u01/app/oracle/oradata/rmandb[[emailprotected] ~]#su - oracle[[emailprotected] ~]$sqlplus / as sysdbaSQL> create tablespace rmant datafile '/u01/app/oracle/oradata/rmandb/rmants.ora' size 20M ;, 2RMAN SQL> create user c##rmant identified by rmantdefault tablespace rmanttemporary tablespace tempquota unlimited on rmant; SQL> grant connect,resource to c##rmant;SQL> grantrecovery_catalog_owner to c##rmant;, 3[[emailprotected]~]$rman catalog c##rmant/rmant: Release 12.2.0.1.0 - Production on 11 16 19:59:31 2018Copyright (c) 1982, 2017, Oracle and/or its affiliates. We also have to provide the host credentials of the members the PaaS Zone is comprised of. In this case we are forcing the manual collection of data and once the job completes we can see a number of graphical reports on Chargeback data showing the usage or consumption and amount which is payable for usage of the service and the same is displayed on a daily basis as well in case the user wishes to get a day by day breakdown of the Chargeback. SQL> select name from rc_database; Look at this example: Next, log in to rman and create the catalog schema. Catalog exists and the sql statement above will show results once databases are registered in this catalog .

connected to target database: ORCL (DBID=3677528376), C:\Windows\system32> rman target / catalog rman/rman@catdb, Recovery Manager: Release 11.2.0.1.0 - Production on Tue Jun 21 01:03:19 2011, connected to target database: ORCL (DBID=1280115002). A Service Template can be also based on a database provisioning Profile. --------------------------------------------------------------.

In this example we see a use case of DBaaS where a Developer is able to create an Oracle 12c pluggable database without any intervention of the DBA by submitting a Service Request using a Service Catalog but the DBA still controls what the developers can and cannot do. This means that if I do one incremental backup, the keep is not considered a valid parent backup. We should make a backup of catalog if we don't want to loose the backups, with export tool. I have few queries on ZDLRA and it would be great if you can help me with below queries. Key TY LV S Device Type Completion Time #Pieces #Copies Compressed Tag, ------- -- -- - ----------- --------------- ------- ------- ---------- ---, 13 B F A DISK 24-DEC-15 1 1 NO TAG20151224T230953, 14 B F A DISK 24-DEC-15 1 1 NO TAG20151224T235112, 15 B F A DISK 24-DEC-15 1 1 NO TAG20151224T235119, 16 B 0 A DISK 24-DEC-15 1 1 NO TAG20151224T235230, 17 B 0 A DISK 24-DEC-15 1 1 NO TAG20151224T235230, 18 B F A DISK 24-DEC-15 1 1 NO TAG20151224T235457, 19 B A A DISK 24-DEC-15 1 1 NO TAG20151224T235502, 20 B A A DISK 24-DEC-15 1 1 NO TAG20151224T235502, 21 B F A DISK 24-DEC-15 1 1 NO TAG20151224T235503, 22 B F A DISK 24-DEC-15 1 1 NO TAG20151224T235505, 23 B F A DISK 24-DEC-15 1 1 NO TAG20151224T235832, 24 B F A DISK 25-DEC-15 1 1 NO TAG20151225T000007, 131 B F A DISK 24-DEC-15 1 1 NO TAG20151224T230953, 132 B F A DISK 24-DEC-15 1 1 NO TAG20151224T235112, 133 B F A DISK 24-DEC-15 1 1 NO TAG20151224T235119, 134 B 0 A DISK 24-DEC-15 1 1 NO TAG20151224T235230, 135 B 0 A DISK 24-DEC-15 1 1 NO TAG20151224T235230, 136 B F A DISK 24-DEC-15 1 1 NO TAG20151224T235457, 137 B A A DISK 24-DEC-15 1 1 NO TAG20151224T235502, 138 B A A DISK 24-DEC-15 1 1 NO TAG20151224T235502, 139 B F A DISK 24-DEC-15 1 1 NO TAG20151224T235503, 140 B F A DISK 24-DEC-15 1 1 NO TAG20151224T235505, 141 B F A DISK 24-DEC-15 1 1 NO TAG20151224T235832, 142 B F A DISK 25-DEC-15 1 1 NO TAG20151225T000007, $rman target / catalog rmancat/rmancat@euro, ********************************************************************. -1.

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How to create a temporary tablespace and assign it How to restore a sequence of archivelogs back to t How to use the DUPLICATE FOR STANDBY command t How to use ssh to a Solaris 8 box - overcoming fil How to use RMANs RESTOREVALIDATE command, How to use the DBMS_FILE_TRANSFER.PUT_FILE procedure. However the recovery catalog provides a large storage capacity, thus enabling access to a longer history of backups, and it is an ideal solution when dealing with a large number of databases.

A developer requests a database. br/>1RMAN[[emailprotected]~]$rman: Release 12.2.0.1.0 - Production on 11 16 20:02:26 2018Copyright (c) 1982, 2017, Oracle and/or its affiliates. Here I will show how the KEEP backups can impact your backup strategy for ZDLRA.

Placement policy constraints can be used to specify a ceiling or limit on the amount of resources any host in the zone can use.

It also provides the linear scalability of workloads, data and users as well as fault isolation where the failure of a shard will be transparent to other shards located in maybe different data centres as well as maybe different countries. ********************************************************************************.

Sharded table partitions are stored in different tablespaces. We can create a Database Pool for Database as a Service, Schema as a Service or PDB as a service. Your email address will not be published. sql>quit;$rman target sys/oracle11grman>backup datafile 6; tab6.dbfrman>quit$mv /u01/app/oracle/oradata/rmandb/tab6.dbf /u01/app/oracle/oradata/rmandb/tab6.bak1$rman target sys/oraclerman>run{allocate channel dev1 type disk;sql 'alter tablespace tab2 offline immediate';restore datafile 6;recover datafile 6;sql 'alter tablespace tab6 online';release channel dev1;}rman>quit$ls /opt/oracle/oradata/rmandb/(tab2.dbf, is@yisu.com, Copyright Yisu Cloud Ltd. All Rights Reserved. So, usually, OSB marks that part of the tape as unusable because cant trust again over it.

!sequence should be the number after the last selected from catalog list command!!

How to use the MERGE statement with a subquery, How to deregister a database from a Recovery Catalog, Important files and directories in a Netbackup setup, How to shrink a datafile in a temporary tablespace. Total System Global Area 1593835520 bytesFixed Size 8793256 bytesVariable Size 1023411032 bytesDatabase Buffers 553648128 bytesRedo Buffers 7983104 bytesSQL> alter database archivelog; 2SQL> show parameter db_recovery_file_dest.

But for an archival backup, it is a big plus. The next step is to create a Database Resource Pool this will be based on databases and Oracle Homes existing on the hosts that make up the PaaS Infrastructure Zone. rman10cat:/u01/oracle> rman target / catalog rman10/rman, Recovery Manager: Release 10.2.0.4.0 Production on Mon Jul 13 12:42:15 2009 The Shard Director is Global Service Manager (GSM) type network listener which provides high performance routing of application connections based on the sharding key. 1. * Target database tablespace and datafile information.

connected to recovery catalog database, rman10cat:/u01/oracle> sqlplus rman10/rman.

We must create it manually.

However, it should be kept in mind that applications that use sharding must have a well-defined data model and data distribution strategy and also primarily access data using a sharding key. When we drop the base recovery catalog, you lose the backup information for all databases registered in the base recovery catalog.

The OSB is very limited for tape and when a failure occurs is hard to know if the error occurred at the tape of software (OSB/ZDLRA) side. KEEP backups from rman are used to provide long-term and archival retention. rman10cat:/u01/oracle> rman target / catalog rman10/rman, Recovery Manager: Release 10.2.0.4.0 Production on Mon Jul 13 12:42:15 2009 All rights reserved.: ORCL (DBID=1503444987), 6RMAN> backup database; 16-11-18 backup : ORA_DISK_1 ORA_DISK_1: SID=31 =DISK ORA_DISK_1: ORA_DISK_1: , = 00001 = /u01/app/oracle/oradata/orcl/system01.dbf, = 00003 = /u01/app/oracle/oradata/orcl/sysaux01.dbf, = 00004 = /u01/app/oracle/oradata/orcl/undotbs01.dbf, = 00013 = /opt/oracle/oradata/rmandb/rmants.ora, = 00014 = /u01/app/oracle/oradata/rmandb/rmants.ora, = 00015 = /u01/app/oracle/oradata/rmandb/tab1.dbf, = 00007 = /u01/app/oracle/oradata/orcl/users01.dbf ORA_DISK_1: 16-11-18 1 ORA_DISK_1: 16-11-18 1 = /u01/app/oracle/product/12.2.0/dbhome_1/dbs/01ticu3n_1_1 = TAG20181116T201551 = NONE ORA_DISK_1: , : 00:00:55 ORA_DISK_1: ORA_DISK_1: , = 00010 = /u01/app/oracle/oradata/orcl/orclpdb/sysaux01.dbf, = 00009 = /u01/app/oracle/oradata/orcl/orclpdb/system01.dbf, = 00011 = /u01/app/oracle/oradata/orcl/orclpdb/undotbs01.dbf, = 00012 = /u01/app/oracle/oradata/orcl/orclpdb/users01.dbf ORA_DISK_1: 16-11-18 1 ORA_DISK_1: 16-11-18 1 = /u01/app/oracle/product/12.2.0/dbhome_1/dbs/02ticu5f_1_1 = TAG20181116T201551 = NONE ORA_DISK_1: , : 00:00:25 ORA_DISK_1: ORA_DISK_1: , = 00006 = /u01/app/oracle/oradata/orcl/pdbseed/sysaux01.dbf, = 00005 = /u01/app/oracle/oradata/orcl/pdbseed/system01.dbf, = 00008 = /u01/app/oracle/oradata/orcl/pdbseed/undotbs01.dbf ORA_DISK_1: 16-11-18 1, ORA_DISK_1: 16-11-18 1 = /u01/app/oracle/product/12.2.0/dbhome_1/dbs/03ticu68_1_1 = TAG20181116T201551 = NONE ORA_DISK_1: , : 00:00:26 16-11-18 backup, 16-11-18 Control File and SPFILE Autobackup = /u01/app/oracle/product/12.2.0/dbhome_1/dbs/c-1503444987-20181116-00 = NONE 16-11-18 Control File and SPFILE AutobackupRMAN> quit, 7tab1SQL> drop table tab1;(Table TAB1SQL> commit;, 8mountSQL> shutdown immediate;ORACLE SQL> startup mount;ORACLE Total System Global Area 1593835520 bytes Fixed Size 8793256 bytes Variable Size 1023411032 bytes Database Buffers 553648128 bytes Redo Buffers 7983104 bytes SQL> quitOracle Database 12c Enterprise Edition Release 12.2.0.1.0 - 64bit Production[oracle@oracle~]$rman target sys/oracle;: Release 12.2.0.1.0 - Production on 11 16 20:23:39 2018Copyright (c) 1982, 2017, Oracle and/or its affiliates.

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And inside of ZDLRA, you can see that there are no backups: And as you can see above, at table RA_DATABASE there is column KEEP_SPACE to report the space used by keep backups. * Information pertaining to datafile and archived redo log backup sets and backup pieces, as well as datafile and archived redo log copies.

Next connect as the DEV_SSA Cloud SSA user, From the Cloud menu select Self Service Portal. However, if we connect to a RMAN recovery catalog, we can restore a controlfile without using the AUTOBACKUP keyword. This is because the RECOVERY CATALOG has not yet been created in the database. Hosts are targets identified in Enterprise Manager and a single host can be a member of only one PaaS Zone.

If got expired, they got removed. Create Tablespace for catalog owner in catalog database.

Rest all steps are prety much similar in both environment.. ***************************************************************. Catalog exists and the sql statement above will show results once databases are registered in this catalog . For long term retention if backup failed and it consumes space on ZDLRA then how to cleanup failed keep backup from ZDRLA ?

Create the following directories and links: 4.

Recovery Manager (RMAN) is an Oracle provided utility for backing-up, restoring and recovering Oracle Databases.

The same is valid at ZDLRA, as you can see below I made a subsequent level 1 backup for the datafile 1 and no parent backups were found: And internally at ZDLRA, you can see that this backup without a keep, was used to generate virtual backups: So, at this moment we have keep and virtual backup: But during the normal database life (after several backups are done) is possible/needed to do some keep backup. There could be OS and Network setup involved as well and then finally the DBA will create the database and then provide access to the developer. Total System Global Area 1593835520 bytesFixed Size 8793256 bytesVariable Size 1023411032 bytesDatabase Buffers 553648128 bytesRedo Buffers 7983104 bytesSQL> alter database archivelog; 2SQL> show parameter db_recovery_file_dest. This way, when you are forced to fall back on the secondary catalog, it'll have all the backup metadata you need.

), 15. The services that are offered to SSA Cloud users are defined via Service Templates. Some of the benefits provided by RMAN include: RMAN can be operated from Oracle Enterprise Manager, or from command line.

Assign an appropriate tablespace to it and grant it the recovery_catalog_owner role. 3 Depends on how you send backups to tape. We can create and store RMAN scripts in the recovery catalog. We need to use the command ALTER SESSION ENABLE SHARD DDL. Oracle GoldenGate and Oracle 12c Online Training Commencing January 2017, Now an Oracle 12c Certified Master Database Cloud Administrator, Presenting at AUSOUG and AIOUG Conferences in November, Oracle Cloud Marketplace GoldenGate Classic Environment, Oracle GoldenGate on Oracle Cloud Marketplace (Part 3), Oracle GoldenGate on Oracle Cloud Marketplace (Part 2), Data migration to Autonomous Database using MV2ADB, Migrate data in real-time from OCI Classic to OCI using MV2ADB and Oracle Cloud Marketplace GoldenGate. db_recovery_file_dest_size big integer0SQL> alter system setdb_recovery_file_dest_size=2g; 3SQL> create tablespace tab1datafile '/u01/app/oracle/oradata/rmandb/tab1.dbf' size 10m; , 4tab1SQL> create table tab1(id int);, 5tab1SQL> insert into tab1 values(1); 1 , SQL> quit Oracle Database 12c Enterprise Edition Release 12.2.0.1.0 - 64bit Production , 5sysRMAN[[emailprotected]~]$rman target sys/oracle: Release 12.2.0.1.0 - Production on 11 16 20:15:04 2018Copyright (c) 1982, 2017, Oracle and/or its affiliates. It then goes to his manager for approval.Once that stage is passed the DBA comes into the picture and the DBA in turn will contact the Storage and System Admin to request the hardware and storage.

Backup and Recovery best practices dictate that we must use a RMAN recovery catalog and also have the controlfile AUTOBACKUP enabled. * It will take up less room on the ZDLRA , and get written to tape or cloud compressed. 2RMAN> connect target sys/oracle;: ORCL (DBID=1503444987), 3RMAN> connect catalog c##rmant/rmant;, 4RMAN> register database;RMAN> quit, 1.SQL> conn sys/oracle as sysdba;SQL> shutdown immediate;ORACLE SQL> startup mount;ORACLE .

Check and if necessary set the following environment variables: 6.

The DBA or Cloud Administrator still controls which physical host the database is created on ,which Container Database the pluggable database is a tenant of, how much resources can be allocated in terms of disk space, RAM and CPU.

But with ZDLRA they are treated in a different way. We will encounter the RMAN-06563 error even if we set the DBID or explicitly alllocate a channel for a tape device. So, ZDLRA cant ask OSB to rewrite just the failed block again to tape. document.getElementById( "ak_js_1" ).setAttribute( "value", ( new Date() ).getTime() ); Your email address will not be published. 6 ZDLRA copy naturally using OSB and third-party software. select name from rc_database Typically this can take days and sometimes weeks as well using DBaaS with EM12c we reduce the time to deliver to minutes! I ran below query but it did not give correct result.

To update the recovery catalog using the current control file information, rman will first create a snapshot controlfile. If backups (from database to zdlra) fail, the validation (inside ZDLRA) reports an error, and backup is validated and deleted. Simply put,based on resource usage charges are calculated and then allocated or metered to individual cost centers who are consumers of the Database as a Service offering. A MML (Media Manager Layer) is required to interface between RMAN and the tape drive/library. To see what tapes were used for a particular backup, run this query against the RMAN catalog database: http://naude.co.za/wiki/index.php?title=Recovery_Manager&oldid=13749, Backups are faster and uses fewer tapes (RMAN will skip empty blocks), Less database archiving while database is being backed-up, RMAN checks the database for block corruptions, Files are written out in parallel instead of sequentially.

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Monthly Tape backup status report from RA catalog? Examples of a sharding key could be the CUSTOMER_ID or ORDER_ID columns in a shared table and this is mainly suited for OLTP applications. Disclaimer: The postings on this site are my own and dont necessarily represent my actual employer positions, strategies or opinions. One example you can see in my previous post: https://www.fernandosimon.com/blog/zdlra-osb-and-clone-to-tape/

The information here was edited to be useful for general purpose, specific data and identifications were removed to allow reach the generic audience and to be useful for the community. connected to recovery catalog database, rman10cat:/u01/oracle> sqlplus rman10/rman. 2.

5 Really dont know. Fortunately, since the keep backup does not affect the incremental forever strategy, we can have it without collateral effect. In this way we are regulating which hosts or OVM zones can be used by a particular SSA user as well as the type of database that can be created via the Self Service Portal. Connect to the rman catalog and check the id of the database you are recovering: 13.

In this example we are creating a service template for provisioning an EMPTY PLUGGABLE DATABASE.

A sharded table family is a set of tables that are sharded in the same manner and are typically tables linked by a parent-child relationship. Connect to the target database and recovery catalog database.

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select distinct db_name,tag,backup_type,incremental_level,device_type,start_time,completion_time,status from RC_BACKUP_PIECE_DETAILS where backup_type=D and incremental_level is null and tag not like TAG2021% and to_char(start_time,MON-YY) =JUN-21 order by start_time; 2. Performing Tablespace Point-in-Time Recovery. Make sure that the registration is successful by running REPORT SCHEMA: Report of database schema for database with db_unique_name ORCL, File Size(MB) Tablespace RB segs Datafile Name, ---- -------- -------------------- ------- ------------------------, 1 690 SYSTEM YES D:\APP\RAFIALVI\ORADATA\ORCL\SYSTEM01.DBF, 2 570 SYSAUX NO D:\APP\RAFIALVI\ORADATA\ORCL\SYSAUX01.DBF, 3 55 UNDOTBS1 YES D:\APP\RAFIALVI\ORADATA\ORCL\UNDOTBS01.DBF, 4 6144 USERS NO D:\APP\RAFIALVI\ORADATA\ORCL\USERS01.DBF, 5 100 EXAMPLE NO D:\APP\RAFIALVI\ORADATA\ORCL\EXAMPLE01.DBF, File Size(MB) Tablespace Maxsize(MB) Tempfile Name, ---- -------- -------------------- ----------- --------------------, 1 20 TEMP 32767 D:\APP\RAFIALVI\ORADATA\ORCL\TEMP01.DBF. select name from rc_database Sometimes the failed backup to tape is marked as corrupted and space can be used again. connecting to the recovery catalog database: SQL> select db_key from rc_database where dbid = 1316762630. When relevant, I also write about other technologies, like Linux or PostgreSQL. Copyright (c) 1982, 2007, Oracle. Your email address will not be published.

Not only is this time consuming and inefficient but this very process has caused the problems we face today around database and server sprawl, multiple versions and patch levels, high cost of deployment and operation, poor resource utilization the current state of most database deployments is largely siloed and complex. Copyright (c) 1982, 2009, Oracle and/or its affiliates. You know you can use the database views in the, individual target databases to find out information about their backups, but you'd like to get data about all your. We will introduce DBaaS concepts like Platform as a Service (PaaS) Infrastructure Zones, Database Resource Pools, Service Templates, Quotas, Service Catalogs and finally an example of Chargeback and Metering as well. This is because the RECOVERY CATALOG has not yet been created in the database.

A table split up or partitioned in this manner is also known as a sharded table.

In this example we create a charge plan for the Pluggable Database entity and the metric being used to calculate the charges is Uptime of the database.

SQL> create tablespace rman10 datafile /u03/oradata/rman10cat/rman10.dbf size 200m autoextend on; create user rman10 identified by rman default tablespace rman10 temporary tablespace temp; alter user rman10 quota unlimited on rman10; At this point the catalog owner exists in the database but there is no catalog created , SQL> conn rman10/rman You can find out the DBID of a database with the following query: connected to target database: ORCL (DBID=1316762630), Once you have the DBID for a database, you can get the DB_KEY from the RC_DATABASE view after first. That is, the DB_KEY column is the primary key in each of the recovery catalog views or RC_ views. ERROR at line 1: All rights reserved. We have created two users for the example CLOUD_ADMIN and DEV_SSA and a CLOUD_SSA Role as well.

The recovery catalog contains information about both RMAN backups and the target database. These recovery catalog views have the prefix RC_. Great post on keep backups!

The PL/SQL calls are statically linked into the Oracle kernel, and does not require the database to be opened (mapped from the?/rdbms/admin/recover.bsq file). Below, the database ORCL19C was recently added and there is no backup for this database registered inside of ZDLRA.