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  2. NetBackup™ for Oracle Administrator's Guide
  3. NetBackup Dedupe Direct for Oracle
  4. Using the NetBackup Dedupe Direct for Oracle plug-in
  5. NetBackup Dedupe Direct for Oracle rman.cfg file parameters
NetBackup™ for Oracle Administrator's Guide

NetBackup Dedupe Direct for Oracle rman.cfg file parameters

The following table lists the rman.cfg file parameters. Update this file to configure NetBackup Dedupe Direct for Oracle plug-in.

Table: rman.cfg file parameters

Settings

Description

STORAGE_SERVER

A valid MSDP server.

Default value: The host name of the MSDP storage server that the Oracle DBA provided during the plug-in installation.

RETENTION_LEVEL

Retention level for current backups.

Possible values:

  • 0: 1 week

  • 1: 2 weeks

  • 2: 3 weeks

  • 3: 1 month

  • 4: 2 months

  • 5: 3 months

  • 6: 6 months

  • 7: 9 months

  • 8: 1 year

Default value: RETENTION_LEVEL=0

The values are equal to the default values in the primary server. If the values are modified on the primary server, they do not work.

CLIENT

The name of the client for the current backups. If it is not configured, host name of the computer is used as a client name.

When you redirect a restore to a different client, the client name is the client that backed up the database.

POLICY

The name of the policy for the current backups. If it is not configured, "agentless_policy" is used as the policy name.

You are not required to create an actual policy. Do not use the same policy name with existing policy names.

LSU_NAME

A name of the MSDP LSU.

Administrator configures Cloud LSU name from MSDP storage server to backup data to the cloud LSU.

Administrator configures MVG LSU from the MVG storage server to back up the data to the MVG LSU.

Default value: LSU_NAME=PureDiskVolume. The default value is the local LSU name in the target MSDP storage server.

USER

The name of the environment variable for the MSDP app user.

The default value is MSDP_DBA_USER. Assign the MSDP app username to this environment variable with export MSDP_DBA_USER=<Your username>.

See Installing NetBackup Dedupe Direct for Oracle plug-in on the Oracle database server.

To create an MSDP app user, refer to the following:

  • See About MSDP application user support topic of the NetBackup Deduplication Guide.

  • See Before you install NetBackup Dedupe Direct for Oracle plug-in.

PASSWORD

The name of the environment variable for the MSDP app user password.

The default value is MSDP_DBA_PASSWORD. Assign the MSDP app password to this environment variable with export MSDP_DBA_PASSWORD=<Your password>.

See Installing NetBackup Dedupe Direct for Oracle plug-in on the Oracle database server.

To create an MSDP app user, refer to the following:

  • See About MSDP application user support topic of the NetBackup Deduplication Guide.

  • See Before you install NetBackup Dedupe Direct for Oracle plug-in.

LOG_LEVEL

A log level that specifies the amount of information that is written to the log file.

Possible values:

  • 0: Fatal

  • 1: Error

  • 2: Warning

  • 3: Info

  • 4: Debug

  • 5: Trace

SLP_NAME

The import SLP name that you have created on the destination storage server with operation IMPORT. NetBackup creates SLP automatically. However, you must create IMPORT SLP manually on Flex WORM.

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