About using Templates and Oracle Intelligent Policy (OIP) with RAC
The NetBackup for Oracle Template Wizard and Oracle Intelligent Policy both work well for backing up Oracle database instances. They can be used to backup Oracle RAC when only a single host name or client name is needed to affect the backup. They cannot be used to backup Oracle RAC when more than one client name must be used.
The following are the two situations when the Template Wizard or the OIP cannot be used to backup Oracle RAC:
The channels are load balanced across the hosts in the cluster.
One client name is used to determine the host on which to execute RMAN, and the channels are allocated using a different client name.
Note:
Using a separate template or OIP for each instance in a RAC may be successful. However, using these methods may result in multiple backups of the same shared application data.
Backup scripts or Oracle launch mechanisms provides greater flexibility for complex configurations and are preferred for use with RAC.