1. Copyright © 2009 Rolta International, Inc., All Rights Reserved ID#: S309061 RMAN 11g New Features R1 and R2 Michael R. Messina, Management Consultant Rolta-TUSC, Oracle Open World 2009 (60 min)

2. Introduction Michael Messina Management Consultant with TUSC Background includes Performance Tuning, High Availability and Disaster Recovery Using Oracle for approximately 16 years messinam@tusc.com www.tusc.com

3. Audience Experience How many are currently utilizing RMAN for you Backups? How many are using a RMAN Catalog Database? How Many are using a controlfile only? How many using RMAN for backups are using RMAN backup compression capability? Thoughts and experiences using RMAN for your Backups?

4. Backup, Backup, Backup or you could be toast

5. Goals Brief Overview of RMAN Introduce New RMAN Features available in 11gR1 – Overview of Features – Show Feature Use – Show Feature Usefulness Introduce New RMAN Features available in 11gR2 – Overview of Features – Show Feature Use – Show Feature Usefulness

6. RMAN Architecture

7. RMAN Benefits RMAN can detect corrupted blocks and report them to you. RMAN can backup and restore DATABASES, FILES, TABLESPACES, DATAFILES, CONTROLFILES and SPFILES. RMAN can create a single Backup of all archive logs since the last backup RMAN can delete archive logs after they are backed up RMAN can backup the controlfile and SPFILE automatically

8. RMAN Limitations Database instance must be in nomount to restore controlfile, must also have DBID Online redo log backups are not supported No parameter files are backed up (init.ora) No password files are backed up A failed RMAN backup job may leave files behind however the catalog will only reflect successfully completed jobs. RMAN works by DBID record and keep track of them.

9. RMAN Terminology Image Copy – Full copy of a single file Backup Set – Oracle format for a package of Objects backed up Backup Piece – Oracle format for a sub package of a backup set Channel – A server process on the target database

10. RMAN Terminology DB Incarnation – Incremented each resetlogs Tag – A logical name assigned by a user to a backup set or image copy. Tag=

11. 11g RMAN New Features R1 Data Recovery Advisor RMAN Proactive Health Check Block Recovery Enhancement Archived Log Deletion Policy Enhancements New Compression Type (ZLIB) Parallel Backup of Same Datafile Virtual Private Catalog

12. 11g RMAN New Features R1 Better Recovery Catalog Management – Move a Catalog to another catalog/database – Merge Database Catalog Data from another Catalog Duplicate Database Enhancement Fast Incremental Backups on Physical Standby Optimized UNDO Backup Read-Only Transported Tablespaces Backup

13. 11g RMAN New Features R2 Automatic Block Repair SET NEWNAME Clause Enhancements – Substitution Variables – Using SET NEWNAME FOR DATABASE – Using SET NEWNAME FOR TABLESPACE RMAN Web-Services Backup – Using Image Copies for Faster TSPITR Performance

14. 11g RMAN New Features R2 Tablespace Point in Time Recovery Enhancements (TSPITR) – Ability to TSPITR a dropped tablespace – SET NEWNAME – DBMS_TTS.TRANSPORT_SET_CHECK – Identifying Relationships that Span Recovery Set Boundaries

15. 11g RMAN New Features R2 DUPLICATE DATABASE Enhancements – New DUPLICATE Options – Duplicate without Connection to Target Database – Enhancements to DUPLICATE TABLEPSPACE / DUPLICATE… SKIP TABLESPACE – Duplicate Database Attempts to Continue Where it Left Off

16. 11gR1

17. Repair Your Database

18. Data Recovery Advisor simplify recoveries allows the DBA to check the failure additional detail repair advice execute the advised repair Command-line and OEM interface

19. Give you Database a check up

20. RMAN Proactive Health Check proactively check database for corrupt blocks database, a tablespace or a specific datafile – RMAN> validate database ; – RMAN> validate tablespace users ; – RMAN> validate datafile 4 block 1 ;

21. RMAN Proactive Health Check RMAN> validate tablespace users ;.. channel ORA_DISK_1: specifying datafile(s) for validation input datafile file number=00004 name=C:\ORACLE\ORADATA\ORCL11G\USERS01.DBF channel ORA_DISK_1: validation complete, elapsed time: 00:00:15 List of Datafiles ================= File Status Marked Corrupt Empty Blocks Blocks Examined High SCN ---- ------ -------------- ------------ ---------- ----- --------- 4 OK 0 51199 64000 13457224 File Name: C:\ORACLE\ORADATA\ORCL11G\USERS01.DBF Block Type Blocks Failing Blocks Processed ---------- -------------- ---------------- Data 0 12357 Index 0 33 Other 0 411 Finished validate at 27-NOV-07

22. Block Recovery Enhancement Flashback Logs – Requires flashback database be enabled – Can repair a corrupted block using blocks from flashback logs – Rolls block forward using archive logs after block recover Physical Standby – Requires a physical standby in place and current – Can retrieve the corrupted block from the physical standby – Rolls block forward using archive logs after block recover

23. Archived Log Deletion Policy Enhancements Improves flexibility and protection for Dataguard (standby) environments – Oracle 10g CONFIGURE ARCHIVELOG DELETION POLICY {CLEAR | TO {APPLIED ON STANDBY | NONE}} – Oracle 11g ARCHIVELOG DELETION POLICY {CLEAR | TO {APPLIED ON [ALL] STANDBY | BACKED UP integer TIMES TO DEVICE TYPE deviceSpecifier | NONE | SHIPPED TO [ALL] STANDBY} [ {APPLIED ON [ALL] STANDBY | BACKED UP integer TIMES TO DEVICE TYPE deviceSpecifier | NONE | SHIPPED TO [ALL] STANDBY}]...}

24. New Compression Type (ZLIB) Faster then original B2ZIP compression Compression not as tight Utilizes Less CPU resources Requires Advanced Compression License ZLIB compression Use – RMAN> configure compression algorithm 'ZLIB' ;

25. Parallel Backup of Same Datafile Allows large datafile to be broken into sections Allows indication of section size Improves speed in which large datafiles are backed up RMAN> run { 2> allocate channel c1 type disk format '/backup1/%U'; 3> allocate channel c2 type disk format '/backup2/%U'; 4> backup section size 50m datafile 4; 7> }

26. Parallel Backup of Same Datafile When backed up this way, the backups show up as sections as well. RMAN> list backup of datafile 4; List of Backup Pieces for backup set 901 Copy #1 BP Key Pc# Status Piece Name ------- --- ----------- ---------- 2007 1 AVAILABLE /backup1/9dhk7os1_1_1 2008 2 AVAILABLE /backup2/9dhk7os1_1_1 2009 3 AVAILABLE /backup1/9dhk7os1_1_3 2009 3 AVAILABLE /backup2/9dhk7os1_1_4

27. Virtual Private Catalog Improved Security Enables multiple virtual catalogs within the RMAN catalog Catalog owner grants access Separation of databases or groups of databases within the RMAN catalog

28. Virtual Private Catalog Setting up /using a virtual private catalog is straight forward – CREATE USER vpc1 IDENTIFIED BY vpc_a QUOTA UNLIMITED ON users; – GRANT RECOVERY_CATALOG_OWNER TO vpc_a ; – Grant access on databases to the virtual private catalog user $ rman RMAN> CONNECT CATALOG rman/rman@rman ; RMAN> GRANT CATALOG FOR DATABASE db11g TO vpc_a;

29. Virtual Private Catalog – Create the virtual catalog with the new recovery catalog owner $ rman RMAN> CONNECT CATALOG vpc_a/vpc_a@rman ; RMAN> CREATE VIRTUAL CATALOG; – Connect to the virtual private catalog using VPC owner CONNECT CATALOG vpc_a/vpc_a@rman ; rman target / catalog vpc_a/vpc_a@rman – Use RMAN Normally as you would a RMAN catalog.

30. Better Recovery Catalog Management Move a Catalog to another catalog/database – $ sqlplus / as sysdba – SQL> CREATE USER rman2 IDENTIFIED BY rman2 QUOTA UNLIMITED ON rman_ts; – SQL> GRANT RECOVERY_CATALOG_OWNER TO rman2; – $ rman catalog=rman2/rman2 – RMAN> CREATE CATALOG; – RMAN> IMPORT CATALOG rman@db11g;

31. Better Recovery Catalog Management Merge Database Catalog Data from another Catalog – RMAN> IMPORT CATALOG rman@db11g DBID=1423241 ; – RMAN> IMPORT CATALOG rman@db11g DB_NAME=prod3 ;

32. Duplicate Database Enhancements Active Database Duplication – capability to duplicate a database without using or having an existing RMAN backup or manual file copies. – utilizes the network and is also referred to a Network-Enabled Database Duplication. – Works for duplicate for standby

33. Fast Incremental Backup on Physical Standby Block change tracking on physical standby RMAN can use the change tracking file on the physical standby Identifies changed blocks since last incremental backup Makes incremental backups on physical standby faster

34. Optimized UNDO Backup Undo Not Needed for Recovery not backed up Enabled with CONFIGURE BACKUP UNDO OPTIMIZATION Option to preserve undo with in the UNDO_RETENTION period Reduces overall backup time and storage not backing up undo that applies to committed transactions

35. Read-Only Transported Tablespaces Backup Backup transported tablespaces in read- only or read-write Removes restriction that transported tablespaces must be made read-write before backup

36. 11gR2

37. Automatic Block Repair Allows corrupt blocks on primary to be automatically repaired Repaired as soon as detected Repairs from Blocks from a physical standby RECOVER BLOCK enhanced to restore blocks from physical standby when available

38. SET NEWNAME Clause Enhancements Simplifies setting new names for files Handle all files with a single SET NEWNAME Order of Precedence – FOR DATAFILE – FOR TEMPFILE – FOR TABLESPACE – FOR DATABASE Use with Duplicate, Restore and Switch

39. SET NEWNAME Clause Enhancements Substitution Variables The setting of a file format can use a defined set of substitution variables in the TO format specification. – %bfilename without the directory path – %fabsolute file number of the datafile – %IDatabase ID (DBID) – %NTablespace Name – %USystem Generated file name in the format (data-D-%d_id-%I_TS_FNO-%f)

40. SET NEWNAME Clause Enhancements SET NEWNAME FOR DATABASE TO {formatSpec} ; Example: RUN { SET NEWNAME FOR DATABASE TO /opt/oracle/oradata/%U ; SET NEWNAME FOR TEMPFILE TO /opt/oracle/oradata/%U ; DUPLICATE TARGET DATABASE TO newdb ; }

41. SET NEWNAME Clause Enhancements SET NEWNAME FOR TABLESPACE TO {formatspec} ; Example: RUN { SET NEWNAME FOR DATABASE TO %U ; SET NEWNAME FOR TEMPFILE TO /opt/oracle/oradata/%U ; SET NEWNAME FOR TABLESPACE example TO /opt/oracle/oradata/%b ; DUPLICATE TARGET DATABASE TO newdb ; }

42. RMAN Web-Services Backup offers backup to Amazon S3 and other web-based storage services. provides easy-to-manage, low cost database backup to remote storage service using the internet, reducing or eliminating the cost and time to manage an in-house backup infrastructure.

43. Tablespace Point in Time Recovery Enhancements (TSPITR) Ability to TSPITR a dropped tablespace SET NEWNAME – SET NEWNAME replaces CONFGURE AUXNAME for recovery set datafiles. DBMS_TTS.TRANSPORT_SET_CHECK – new procedure for DBMS_TTS package to determine if tablespaces in the recovery set are self contained.

44. Tablespace Point in Time Recovery Enhancements (TSPITR) DBMS_TTS.TRANSPORT_SET_CHECK (cont) – improved the capability to check relationships in transport tablespace checks. Prior to 11gR2 you would check the tablespace relationships using SYS.TS_PITR_CHECK. – DBMS_TTS.TRANSPORT_SET_CHECK (, ) ; – SELECT * FROM TRANSPORT_SET_VIOLATIONS ;

45. Tablespace Point in Time Recovery Enhancements (TSPITR) Using Image Copies for Faster TSPITR Performance – improved by directing RMAN to use existing image copies for the recovery. Prior to 11gR2 you utilized the CONFIGURE AUXNAME to which allowed the restore of the datafile to be skipped. CONFIGURE AUXNAME FOR DATAFILE TO ; RECOVER TABLESPACE UNTIL TIME TO_DATE(03/04/2009 13:00:00, MM/DD/YYYY HH24:MI:SS) ;

46. Tablespace Point in Time Recovery Enhancements (TSPITR) Using Image Copies for Faster TSPITR Performance (cont) – Starting with 11gR2 the SET NEWNAME FOR DATAFILE command. RUN {SET NEWNAME FOR DATAFILE TO ; RECOVER TABLESPACE UNTIL TIME TO_DATE(03/04/2009 13:00:00, MM/DD/YYYY HH24:MI:SS) ; }

47. DUPLICATE DATABASE Enhancements Duplicate without Connection to Target Database – RMAN enhances the duplicate database so that a connection to the target database is no longer required. Duplicate Database Attempts to Continue Where it Left Off – 11gR2 the duplicate will attempt to determine where a duplicate left off prior to a failure and continue from that point.

48. DUPLICATE DATABASE Enhancements New Duplicate Database Options – NOREDO – Indicates that no archive logs will be applied – UNDO_TABLESPACE = when not connected to a recovery catalog and not connected to a target database RMAN can not obtain the list of tablespaces with undo segments therefore this must be used to specify the UNDO tablespace.

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