About NetBackup for Oracle schedule properties using Oracle Intelligent Policy
This topic describes the schedule properties that have a different meaning for Oracle Intelligent Policy backups than for file system backups. Other schedule properties vary according to your specific backup strategy and system configuration. Additional information about other schedule properties is available.
See the NetBackup Administrator's Guide, Volume I.
Table: Description of schedule properties
Property | Description |
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| Specifies the type of backup that this schedule can control. The selection list shows only the backup types that apply to the policy you want to configure. |
| You can schedule a backup in one of the following ways:
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Specifies a retention period to keep backup copies of files before they are deleted. The retention period for an automatic schedule controls how long NetBackup keeps records of when scheduled backups occurred. Set the time period to retain at least two full backups of your database. In this way, if one full backup is lost, you have another full backup to restore. The type of schedule you select affects the retention period as follows:
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| If you want to specify multiple copies of a backup for the policy, configure on the application backup schedule. |
This option instructs NetBackup to re-copy all the data files to the share. This option is only available when is selected in the Backup selections tab and the option is selected in the Attributes tab. This option forces the creation of a new set of database data file copies. When this option is not selected, the data file copies in the share are updated using an incremental backup. The incremental backup contains only the changed blocks since the last full backup. |