HP Archive Backup System for OpenVMS Guide to Operations

System Backup to Tape for Oracle Databases
9.5 Testing the Configuration of SBT
sbtremove2(remove_after) successful, remove "testfile"
sbtend successful
*** The SBT API test was successful ***
The following describes the commands in the above example:
1. Define the sbttest symbol. By default the sbttest command is pointing to Oracle's
ORA_RDBMS:SBTTEST.EXE. However, this executable will not work with SBT.
2. Define the MDMS$SBT_ARCHIVE logical. This logical points to the archive that you created
in Section 9.4.2. In this case, we would not have to define this logical because it is the
default. If you did not create an ORACLE_DB_ARCHIVE archive, you would have specified
the archive here.
3. Define the MDMS$SBT_CATALOG logical. This logical points to the catalog that you created
in Section 9.4.1. In this case, we would not have to define this logical because it is the
default. If you did not create the default catalog, ORACLE_DB, you would have to specify
it here.
4. Run sbttest using the sbttest command. The parameter TESTFILE is a made up name that
gets put in the catalog during the backup and then is used for the restore. The data stored and
retrieved is 100 blocks of 16384 characters per block. By specifying the -TRACE flag the
file SBTTEST.TRC is written (see the following text).
5. Vendor description string shows that you are using the
SYS$SHARE:MDMS$SBTSHR_MA64.EXE shareable image.
The -TRACE flag generates the SBTTEST.TRC trace file. The trace file should look like the following
example:
SBT-00001DB2 12/14/01 10:12:30 Using archive ORACLE_DB_ARCHIVE
SBT-00001DB2 12/14/01 10:12:31 Starting backup of testfile for DB: sbtdb
SBT-00001DB2 12/14/01 10:12:31 Using catalog ORACLE_DB
SBT-00001DB2 12/14/01 10:12:31 Attempting to allocate volume set BEB026
SBT-00001DB2 12/14/01 10:12:33 Allocated drive: TLZ88D Device: MOE$MKC200:
SBT-00001DB2 12/14/01 10:12:33 Drive is in jukebox TLZ88J
SBT-00001DB2 12/14/01 10:12:37 Loading/mounting volume BEB026 on drive TLZ88D
SBT-00001DB2 12/14/01 10:12:37 Loading volume BEB026 on drive TLZ88D
SBT-00001DB2 12/14/01 10:12:45 Mounting volume BEB026 on device MOE$MKC200:
SBT-00001DB2 12/14/01 10:12:53 Skipping 9 tapemarks to end of tape
SBT-00001DB2 12/14/01 10:13:02 Ready to write to saveset 2001121410125267.
on volume BEB026
SBT-00001DB2 12/14/01 10:13:07 Using catalog ORACLE_DB
SBT-00001DB2 12/14/01 10:13:07 Finished writing saveset 2001121410125267.
on volume BEB026
SBT-00001DB2 12/14/01 10:13:09 Starting restore of testfile
SBT-00001DB2 12/14/01 10:13:09 Using catalog ORACLE_DB
SBT-00001DB2 12/14/01 10:13:10 Dismounting volume set member: BEB026 RVN 1
SBT-00001DB2 12/14/01 10:13:10 Deallocating drive TLZ88D
SBT-00001DB2 12/14/01 10:13:11 Allocated drive: TLZ88D Device: MOE$MKC200:
SBT-00001DB2 12/14/01 10:13:11 Drive is in jukebox TLZ88J
SBT-00001DB2 12/14/01 10:13:20 Loading/mounting volume BEB026 on drive TLZ88D
SBT-00001DB2 12/14/01 10:13:20 Loading volume BEB026 on drive TLZ88D
SBT-00001DB2 12/14/01 10:13:29 Mounting volume BEB026 on device _RDEVA0:
SBT-00001DB2 12/14/01 10:13:37 Skipping 9 tapemarks to beginning of saveset
SBT-00001DB2 12/14/01 10:13:44 Ready to read from saveset 2001121410125267.
on volume BEB026
SBT-00001DB2 12/14/01 10:13:47 Finished restoring saveset 2001121410125267.
from volume BEB026
SBT-00001DB2 12/14/01 10:13:49 Dismounting volume set member: BEB026 RVN 1
SBT-00001DB2 12/14/01 10:13:49 Deallocating drive TLZ88D
You are now ready to start using Oracle's Recovery Manager to backup your Oracle database to
tape. The following section describes what Oracle's Recovery Manager commands allow you to
control how you do backups using SBT.
System Backup to Tape for Oracle Databases 9–11