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  2. NetBackup™ for Oracle Administrator's Guide
  3. Appendix D. XML Archiver
  4. About the environment variables set by a user in the XML export parameter file
NetBackup™ for Oracle Administrator's Guide

About the environment variables set by a user in the XML export parameter file

You can set the XML export parameter file in the Oracle user's environment.

Table: NetBackup for Oracle environment variables shows the NetBackup for Oracle environment variables.

Table: NetBackup for Oracle environment variables

Environment variable

Purpose

NB_ORA_SERV

Specifies the name of NetBackup master server.

NB_ORA_CLIENT

Specifies the name of the Oracle client.

On Windows, this variable is useful for specifying a virtual client name in a cluster.

NB_ORA_POLICY

Specifies the name of the policy to use for the Oracle backup. To define NB_ORA_POLICY, use the RMAN PARMS statement or send statement in Oracle shell scripts. For example:

ALLOCATE CHANNEL ch01 TYPE 'SBT_TAPE' ;
send 'NB_ORA_POLICY=Oracle_Backup' ;
BACKUP

NB_ORA_SCHED

Specifies the name of the Application Backup schedule to use for the Oracle backup.

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About the environment variables set by a user in the XML export parameter file

About the bp.conf file on UNIX systems

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