Re: arc destination odd behavior

Yechiel Adar Wed, 11 Dec 2002 02:55:44 -0800

Title: arc destination odd behavior

Hi Lisa

We do things a little different her and have no problems.

Before backup we run a script that set the archive bit on

for all the existing archive logs:

attrib *.* +a (they are written with the archive bit off).

after BackupExec finished the backup we do:

del *.* /aa (meaning delete all the files with archive bit on only).

There are parameters in BackupExec jobs for scripts to run before and after the job.

Yechiel Adar
Mehish

----- Original Message -----

From: Koivu, Lisa

To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L

Sent: Tuesday, December 10, 2002 11:15 PM

Subject: arc destination odd behavior

Hi all -

8.1.7.2, Windows 2000 sp 2

I'm working on my backupexec implementation. For some odd reason the backup job that copies the arclogs to tape and deletes them off the disk (what BE calls an 'archive' job) wants to delete the directory too. Sometimes the directory is deleted, and sometimes it isn't.

So I whip together a perl script to fire after the backup to check for the arc directory and recreate it if it isn't there.

Well, I expected Oracle to crash if it couldn't find the arc directory. Instead it wrote to the directory where the arc directory used to reside with a different name.

Maybe it's platform specific, but doesn't this seem odd? I would rather have my db crash if the directory doesn't exist. My backups would be all hosed because the arclogs wouldn't end up being written to tape properly. In fact I'm betting that BE will err out when looking for that directory.

Here's what I see in v$archived_log. 693 and 694 are when the directory still existed. 695+ are after the directory got deleted. Anyone seen this before?

       693 480186148 D:\ORACLE\ORADATA\RMANTST\ARC\RMANTST_00428.ARC
       694 480186151 D:\ORACLE\ORADATA\RMANTST\ARC\RMANTST_00429.ARC
       695 480268708 D:\ORACLE\ORADATA\RMANTST\ARCRMANTST_00430.ARC
       696 480268709 D:\ORACLE\ORADATA\RMANTST\ARCRMANTST_00431.ARC
       697 480268711 D:\ORACLE\ORADATA\RMANTST\ARCRMANTST_00432.ARC
       698 480268715 D:\ORACLE\ORADATA\RMANTST\ARCRMANTST_00433.ARC
       699 480268718 D:\ORACLE\ORADATA\RMANTST\ARCRMANTST_00434.ARC

SQL> select value from v$parameter
2 where name = 'log_archive_dest';

VALUE
---------------------------------------------
D:\oracle\oradata\rmantst\arc

SQL>

Lisa Koivu
Oracle Database Administrator
Fairfield Resorts, Inc.
5259 Coconut Creek Parkway
Ft. Lauderdale, FL, USA 33063

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