About Oracle Copilot
This feature enhances the Oracle Intelligent Policy by giving you two options for protecting an Oracle database using a share on a NetBackup appliance or universal shares. The first option gives you better control of backups when Oracle database backups are placed in shares (including NetBackup appliance share and universal shares) by the DBA. The second option lets you choose an appliance share or universal shares as the destination for the first backup copy. Now you do not have to rely on the DBA to create backups in the share.
The option provides a single NetBackup Appliance share or universal shares for the DBA and is protected using the Oracle Intelligent Policy. The backup occurs on the storage server as an off-host backup and all data movement occurs on the storage server and does not affect the Oracle client. Since the OIP protects the shares, the backups are visible when the DBA uses RMAN or Oracle Enterprise Manager.
The option enhances the OIP to allow the NetBackup Administrator to choose an appliance share or universal shares as the destination for the first backup copy. When the policy runs the first time, an RMAN script is generated that creates a full set of Oracle data file copies. The data file copies reside in the shares. The next time that the full schedule runs, the backup is accelerated if the option is selected. The RMAN script that is generated performs an incremental backup and the changed blocks are merged into the data files. This incremental backup creates an updated full set of Oracle data file copies. After the new full copy is created in the database backup shares, an SLP is used to make additional copies of the full backup. The first copy is always a remote_vxfs snapshot. For NetBackup appliance share, the remote_vxfs snapshot creates the vxfs_checkpoint snapshot. For universal shares, there are several vpfs snapshots created.
On the Attributes tab, the feature is automatically selected when you configure an OIP with selected in the Backup Selections tab. The first time that the full schedule runs it creates a full set of data file copies. After the first full schedule, only the changes are backed up as a backup set and merged with the existing full backup. Basically, an incremental merge is performed. Oracle's Block Change Tracking feature should be enabled for faster incremental backups.
When using Oracle Copilot to protect your database, NetBackup does not protect extended attributes, extent attributes, or Access Control Lists associated with the database's data files.
Oracle Copilot works with both NetBackup appliance share and MSDP universal shares, which comes from BYO, Flex, and Flex Scale. Oracle Copilot with universal shares supports instant access. See the chapter Oracle Copilot with Instant Access.
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Create a share on the appliance using the procedures in the Managing shares section of the NetBackup 52xx and 5330 Appliance Administrator's Guide. If you enter a share path that is not located on an appliance, nothing is backed up.
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The NetBackup appliance media server can only be configured in a pure IPv4 or dual stack IPv4/IPv6 mode.