Ransomware attackers specifically target and attempt to destroy backup systems to increase the probability of payment. Hardening your system is critical. Please ensure you have reviewed your platform security using the Security Hardening Checklist
Cohesity

COHESITY Documentation

Explore our documentation to get started, discover products & new features, access troubleshooting guides, register sources, platforms support.

Products
Data Security Alliance
Visit Cohesity.com
Demos
Support
Blogs
Developers
Partner Portals
Cohesity Community
© 2026 Cohesity, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
Terms of Use|
Privacy Policy|
Legal|
  1. Home
  2. Veritas NetBackup™ Administrator's Guide, Volume II
  3. NetBackup licensing models and the nbdeployutil utility
  4. Reviewing a capacity licensing report
  5. NetBackup for Oracle server agent
Veritas NetBackup™ Administrator's Guide, Volume II

NetBackup for Oracle server agent

Note:

The following section is applicable for NetBackup master server 8.1 or later and NetBackup client 8.1 or later.

Accurate licensing for Oracle is specific to an Oracle policy. The size of the data that is reported does not include the NetBackup for Oracle XML Archiver. This type of licensing collects the front-end data size (FEDS) for any Oracle backup that can be restored, not including transaction logs. The backup selection is defined in the Oracle Instances and Databases tabs in the policy (OIP, templates, and scripts). The data size collection may not work properly if OS authentication is disabled.

The following Oracle queries are used to gather file size information.

  • Get size of database files being backed up

    Given the database file names that are backed up, these queries retrieve the file size (in MB) for every database in an instance. These queries do not include the transaction log:

    select name, BYTES/1024/1024 from v$datafile; (where name is the name of the database file being protected in the backup policy)

    Or to collect the entire sum of the database files in the instance, use the following query:

    select sum(BYTES/1024/1024) from v$datafile;
  • Get the size of the control file

    Given the database name, this query gets the control file size (size is only collected for one) in MB, not including transaction log:

    select name, BLOCK_SIZE*FILE_SIZE_BLKS/1024/1024 controlfile_size from v$controlfile;

Feedback

Was this page helpful?
Previous

NetBackup for NDMP agent

Next

NetBackup for SQL Server agent

Feedback

Was this page helpful?