Oracle wallet on RMAN backup thru avamar

OK - not an Oracle guru by any means, but worked on a project this year where I found out some things.

1) Avamar itself does not have a way to use Oracle Wallet if you're setting up an Avamar group/policy, as far as I know

2) However, if the customer has their own RMAN scripts and you set up Avamar as the target device, apparently the following lines assist in "magically" getting your credentials from Oracle Wallet (caveat - there may be other lines needed, but as far as I know, these are the important ones):

# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------

# Set the Oracle Home, the Oracle SID, and the Server Name.

# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------

export ORATAB=/etc/oratab

export ORACLE_SID=`egrep -v "^#" ${ORATAB} | awk -F: '{ print $1 }'`

export ORACLE_HOME=`cat $ORATAB | grep ^$ORACLE_SID: | cut -d":" -f2`

export LOG_DIR=/home/oracle/log

export ServerName=`hostname | awk -F. '{ print $1 }'`

(then later on before you set the RMAN name)

# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------

# Set the target and catalog connect strings.

# Use the ORACLE WALLET for authentication

# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------

TARGET_CONNECT_STR=${ORACLE_SID}_sys

CATALOG_CONNECT_STR=rcatowner

(and then later when you actually begin the backup section)

connect TARGET /@$TARGET_CONNECT_STR;

connect catalog /@$CATALOG_CONNECT_STR;

(additional advisory - I have no idea who "rcatowner" is - this is from a customer script)

Hope that helps in some manner.