Dell DR2000v, DR6000 User Manual

A Dell Technical White Paper

Setting Up the Dell™ DR Series System as an

NFS or CIFS Backup Target on Oracle

Recovery Manager®

Dell Engineering

April 2015

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Table of contents

1 Installing and configuring the DR Series system ....................................................................................................................... 5

2 Configuring a backup job on RMAN over a CIFS target ........................................................................................................ 12

2.1 Oracle settings for Windows RMAN Online Backup ................................................................................................... 12

2.2 Default RMAN backup configuration............................................................................................................................... 12

2.3 RMAN backup settings to DR Series system backup ................................................................................................... 12

2.4 RMAN backup of full database .......................................................................................................................................... 13

2.5 RMAN incremental backup of database ......................................................................................................................... 13

2.6 Backup with different options ........................................................................................................................................... 14

2.7 RMAN restore of Oracle database from DR Series system ........................................................................................ 14

2.8 RMAN restore of archive logs from DR Series system images ................................................................................. 15

3 Replicating Oracle RMAN database images ...............................................................................................................................17

3.1 RMAN restore from replication DR Series system container .....................................................................................17

4 Configuring a backup job on RMAN over an NFS target ....................................................................................................... 19

4.1 Create a storage device for NFS ....................................................................................................................................... 19

5 Creating a storage device for Rapid CIFS .................................................................................................................................. 20

5.1 About the Rapid CIFS plugin .............................................................................................................................................. 20

5.2 Configure Rapid CIFS........................................................................................................................................................... 20

6 Creating a storage device for Rapid NFS ................................................................................................................................... 21

6.1 About the Rapid NFS plugin ............................................................................................................................................... 21

6.2 Configuring Rapid NFS ........................................................................................................................................................ 21

7 General best practices for RMAN backups to the DR Series system .................................................................................. 22

8 Setting up the DR Series system cleaner ................................................................................................................................... 24

9 Monitoring deduplication, compression, and performance ................................................................................................ 25

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Executive summary

This paper provides guideline about how to set up the Dell DR Series System as a backup to disk target for

RMAN® over CIFS/Rapid CIFS and NFS/Rapid NFS.

For additional information, see the DR Series system documentation and other data management

application best practices whitepapers for your specific DR Series system at:

http://www.dell.com/powervaultmanuals

Note: The DR Series System/RMAN build version and screenshots used for this paper may vary slightly, depending on

the version of the DR Series System/ RMAN software version used.

About RMAN

RMAN (Recovery Manager) is a backup and recovery manager supplied for Oracle databases by the Oracle

Corporation. Oracle Corporation recommends RMAN as its preferred method for backup and recovery

and has written command-line and graphical (via Oracle Enterprise Manager) interfaces for the product.

The following illustration shows a typical implementation of the backup infrastructure with the Dell DR

Series system. The DR Seriees system offers optimized replication of data from one system to another over

the WAN for disaster recovery.

Dell DR Series System: RMAN: Baseline Scenarios

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1 Installing and configuring the DR Series system

1. Rack and cable the DR Series system, and power it on. Initialize the DR Series system.

In the

Dell DR Series System Administrator Guide

, refer to the following topics: “iDRAC

Connection”, “Logging in and Initializing the DR Series System and “Accessing IDRAC6/Idrac7

Using RACADM” for more information.

2. Log on to iDRAC using the default address 192.168.0.120, or the IP address that is assigned to the

iDRAC interface, with the user name and password: “root/calvin”.

3. Launch the virtual console.

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4. After the virtual console is open, log on to the system as user administrator with the password

St0r@ge! (The “0” in the password is the numeral zero).

5. Set the user-defined networking preferences.

6. View the summary of preferences and confirm that it is correct.

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7. Log on to DR Series system administrator console using the IP address you just provided for the

DR Series system with the username administrator and password St0r@ge! (The “0” in the

password is the numeral zero.).

8. Join the DR Series system to Active Directory.

Note: If you do not want to add the DR Series system to Active Directory, please see the

DR Series

System

Owner’s Manual

for guest logon instructions.

a. Under System Configuration in the left navigation area, click Active Directory.

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b. Enter your Active Directory credentials.

9. Create and mount the container by selecting Storage > Containers in the left navigation area, and

then clicking Create at the top of the page.