• DP 24.4 automatic restore(?) after failed backup

    Hello, We have a CM with DP24.4 (recently upgraded from DP24.1) and some Linux clients with Oracle Linux Server 8.8 and Oracle 19c. After the clients' upgrade to version 24.4 something weird is happening. Everyday the oracle online backup runs without…
  • Control file backup of Standby DB - Oracle

    one of our customer has 2 instances of DP running in DC & DR respectively. The DC & DR instances of DP are independent of each other. DP Version 11.0 running on Windows Server 2016. The customer has multiple Oracle RAC instances - off which the Primary…
  • SAP R3 ERROR - ORA-01017: invalid username/password; logon denied

    Configuring a new SAP R3 archive log backup and getting the above error message. The credentials are correct, even when I input invalid credentials in the configuration box, they are not displayed " it is not invalid" . Attached the session for reference…
  • Oracle Database Restore Issue

    Hi everyone, I have this issue when I try to restore a Oracle Database, there are communications between the backup server and client, also it resolves DNS names What can I do to solve this? [Normal] From: RSM@bkp.testing.co "" Time: 27/09…
  • Restore Oracle Database another location

    Hi everyone I need a little help, Here in the company we need to restore Oracle Database in another location because we need to test that database is good but we don't want to affect the production enviroment. How can we do that? Checking…
  • Data Protector Support for Oracle Database 19c

    Oracle has release Database Version19c in April 2019 but it seems that there is no support for it in Data Protector. I found in "Platform and Integration Support Matrix" ( https://docs.microfocus.com/DP/SupportMatrix/10.20/Platform_Integrtn_SptMtx_10…
  • oracle restore chain will be aborted.

    Hi Team, Please help this issue. Thank you a lot. 1. Customer Environment: DP version: 10.04 oracle version: 11.2.0.3 There are three patrs: Product environment: two nodes of RAC Disaster Recovery environment: Data Guard Recovery Catalog…
  • RE: DP 10.2 - Restoring Oracle from a Copy Job.

    Hi , Having no copies tab for backups other than type Filesystem is expected. The restore issues you're seeing are not expected. Can you check for any of those Oracle objects in the database (the session you want to restore) if it lists two copies in…
  • RE: Oracle 12c and SYSBACKUP AS SYSBACKUP

    Hi , Not sure if you have noticed, but this is now fully supported in Data Protector A.10.01 and later. Regards, Sebastian Koehler
  • RE: Upgraded from DP9 to 10.03, Oracle integration Insufficient Privileges

    Hello , I found the problem. After upgrade to A.10.03 the Oracle Integration checks if the database is running Oracle 12 or higher. If this is the case the user account used for backup requires the SYSBACKUP privilege. The connection string used is sqlplus…
  • RE: Upgraded from DP9 to 10.03, Oracle integration Insufficient Privileges

    Hello ronlevyca, What is the client operating system and Oracle database version? Can you try to login with sqlplus using the password? Have you tried to reconfigure the integration for this client to see if it works afterwards? Anything obvious in the…
  • RE: How to backup Oracle DB on vmware Linux VM

    Hello Marco67, As you pointed out there are several options. Since you're using a 3PAR system and the VM and database files are located on VMFS datastores the ZDB for VMware integration can be used. I've create a quick how-to on this topic some time ago…
  • RE: VE backup and Oracle - Writer 'Microsoft Hyper-V VSS Writer' failed

    Hi Despina, Can you check if the Oracle VSS Provider is enabled and started on this VM? This is a optional component to the Oracle database on Windows and might cause trouble if the VSS requester is waiting for it. Regards, Sebastian Koehler
  • RE: Restore DataProtector 9 Oracle

    Hi Tony, I guess it would help if you post here in English to reach a broader audience. Anyway you're asking for Duplication of a Oracle Database to a new client system. Based on your description it looks like something goes wrong in the GUI when selecting…
  • Restore do controlfile via CLI e depois prosseguir via GUI.

    Restore do controlfile via CLI e depois prosseguir via GUI. Segue um exemplo: Backup de servidor A (2009/10/23-3) Backup de servidor B (2009/10/27-2) Restore do backup 2009/10/27-2 para o servidor A Logon em servidor A [root] export OB2BARHOSTNAME=servidor…
  • HP Data Protector - SAP Integration restores

    Question for anyone using SAP Integration backups in Data Protector. We have been using these backups for years but have had issues with the backup sessions creating a complete restore set. So all of our backups are setup to backup the database and the…
  • Storeonce and Oracle archive logs performance

    Our regular backup(s) manage a decent speed and I suspect it is because there is more than one mount point and the files are large. BUT we are needed to move our archivelog backups to the StoreOnce. Last night, over 100Mb ethernet we were getting less…
  • StoreOnce and Oracle Archive logs best practice question

    Right now I have but ONE backup going to a StoreOnce, our Production (oracle) Database. One of the things we NEED to do is move all 28 oracle database archive logs from Tape to StoreOnce (and eventually all the databases).. Should I use the same target…
  • Backup end with sqlplus timeout

    Hello everybody, Im not much familiar with Hp data protetor. We using this tool to backup our production Oracle databases and about week ago we start receiving very weird message. First of all - Our backups are OK, but with this "error" [Major] From:…
  • RE: RMAN / ORA-01017 invalid username/password; login denied After Upgrading client from 7 to 9

    Hi amefird, you should really not proceed upgrading clients to plain Data Protector A.09.00 before A.09.07 patch bundle was applied to your installation server. The initial release of Data Protector A.09.00 for example had no support of Oracle 10g R2…
  • RE: Mysql backup on DataProtector 9.0.7

    From a legal point of view using Oracle MEB on the Community Edition of MySQL is not possible. This is how Oracle works. Please refer to https://www.mysql.com/products for details on licensing. Here from the MEB user guide... MySQL Enterprise Backup is…
  • RE: How to recover redo log sequence with oracle integration

    You should consider using Oracle RMAN directly from the database server. Just load the Data Protector SBT library and you should be able to restore an individual archive log to a directory. restore archivelog logseq 123456; Regards, Sebastian Koehler
  • (DP) Support Tip: Best balancing for oracle backups

    If you have an oracle backup that is not giving you a good performance, we recommend that you should check the drive concurrency load balancing and should be = channels in oracle, if you do not have it in this way, the drive usage will not be the same…
  • Data Protector 8.13 Oracle RMAN issue

    Hello, I encountered an error with Oracle Rman backups, namely that the sql 'alter system archive log current'; rows are removed from the RMAN script on execution. This way the backups are unrecoverable without the archivelogs that were written during…
  • Oracle 10g on win2008R2(x64) dp 6.11

    Hello there I have Oracle 10G running on Win2008R2 x64. The documentation says: Oracle 10g w RMAN supported with DP 6.11. ( http://h20566.www2.hpe.com/hpsc/doc/public/display?docId=emr_na-c01631170&lang=en-us&cc=us) When i try to backup the database …