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  2. NetBackup™ for Oracle Administrator's Guide
  3. Configuring Oracle policies
  4. About Oracle Intelligent Policies (OIP)
  5. Create an Oracle Intelligent Policy (OIP)
NetBackup™ for Oracle Administrator's Guide

Create an Oracle Intelligent Policy (OIP)

This topic guides you through the steps for setting up an Oracle Intelligent Policy (OIP). An OIP is used with Oracle CDB and PDB databases, Oracle Copilot, and regular Oracle database instance backups. This method precludes the need to create scripts for your Oracle policies.

Table: Steps for creating an OIP

Steps

Task

Instructions

Step 1

Register Oracle instances.

NetBackup automatically discovers Oracle instances and displays them in the instance repository. An instance must be registered in order for that instance to be included in an OIP.

Step 2

Add a policy.

In the NetBackup web UI on the left click Protection > Policies.

Click Add.

Step 3

Configure the Attributes tab.

In the Policy type list, select Oracle. This action causes the tabs along the top of the display to change to a unique Oracle tab set.

The Use Accelerator option has a different function when used with an OIP. This option is automatically selected when certain options in the Backup Selections tab are set during Oracle Copilot configuration.

For information on additional policy attributes, see the NetBackup Administrator's Guide, Volume I.

Step 4

Configure the Schedules tab.

The schedules that are defined on the Schedules tab determine when backups occur for an OIP.

See About NetBackup for Oracle schedule properties using Oracle Intelligent Policy.

Step 5

Configure the Instances and Databases tab.

Select the databases that the OIP will back up. An OIP must use either the Protect non-RAC databases and pluggable databases option or the Protect RAC databases and pluggable databases option.

Step 6

Configure the Backup Selections tab.

You can backup the Whole database, Partial database - Tablespaces, Partial database - Datafiles, Fast Recovery Area (FRA), Database backup shares, or the Whole Database - Datafile Copy Share.

Step 7

Configure the Oracle tab.

The tab contains setup options for databases, tablespaces, data files, archived redo logs, file name formats, and database backup shares.

Step 8

(Optional) Create bpstart_notify and bpend_notify scripts

See Create bpstart_notify and bpend_notify scripts for an Oracle Intelligent Policy (OIP).

More Information

Register credentials for an Oracle database or RMAN catalog

Oracle backup policy types

About Oracle Copilot

Instances and databases tab

Backup selections tab

Configuring an OIP using a share on the NetBackup appliance (Oracle Copilot)

Oracle tab

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