NMO recovery catalog

Yury,

NMO basically interfaces with RMAN for NetWorker and allows us to accept the backup data and secure it to tape. RMAN on the Oracle side really does all the work. So RMAN can do backups without using the recovery catalogue and storing the information elsewhere (from memory I think it puts this in the control file - but not 100% sure). It is more normal to use the recovery catalogue with RMAN backups from what I have experienced, but not mandatory. You also need to ensure your catalogue is secured as it is effectively just an oracle database - so copy to another server or backup using a different catalogue for the backup details.

Regards,

Bill Mason

With longer retentions (more than 2 weeks) you really wish to keep data in catalof rather than control file.

need to store about 6 months. I'm not good at Oracle, told me that there is another scheme.

and the question has arisen yet because I do not understand how to restore a certain time.

Yury,

I am assuming you have Oracle DBA's which also look after the database - if you use RMAN catalogue to store the backup metadata, NetWorker will just have the saveset, savesetid and volume information which is relevant to your restore. RMAN control backups and restores usually via script so the DBA's should be able to advise and control these restores. For a backup admin as long as the media is available within the jukebox then there is not a lot to do from the NW side.

NetWorker just facilitates RMAN/Oracle getting data to/from disk/tape - all the configuration is done in the RMAN script.

There are examples of this in the Administration Guides, but the DBA's should know how to do all of this.

Regards,

Bill Mason