Known Issues for the Agent for Oracle on UNIX and Linux Platforms
The following issues relating to the Agent for UNIX/Linux are known to exist in this release:
- We recommend that you back up the Oracle RMAN agent using Disk to Disk to Tape feature (Disk Staging). If you chose to back up directly to tape, note you will require more storage media when doing a multichannel backup.
- This release of Arcserve Backup supports one (1) password per Oracle encrypted backup.
- When different table spaces are backed up using different passwords, you must restore them in separate jobs by providing the correct passwords.
- This release of Arcserve Backup supports Oracle-encrypted backup and decryption restore jobs submitted from the Manager Console (GUI).
- This release of Arcserve Backup will not show the lock icon for RMAN-encrypted sessions.
- Avoid changing passwords after a full backup is done. When password must be changed, do so prior to performing a full backup.
- Invalid incremental levels in Oracle 10g:
- For rotation or GFS-rotation jobs, incremental levels are assigned as follows:
- full backup = incremental level 0 (RMAN)
- incremental backup = incremental level 1 (RMAN)
- differential backup = incremental level 1 cumulative (RMAN)
- For non-rotation jobs, you must set an incremental value between 0 and 1 if you are running Oracle 10g.
- You must use an RMAN Catalog to run jobs with the Oracle option Include Control File Oracle option enabled from the Oracle Restore Manager. If you enabled the control file autobackup feature for the target database before using the Agent for Oracle, use your own RMAN scripts to restore an autobackup of the control file. For more information, see the Arcserve Backup Agent for Oracle UNIX and Linux Guide .
- Compare Media to Disk is not supported on Agent for Oracle sessions.
- Optimize Restore functionality is not supported for the Agent for Oracle.
- The Restore by Media and Restore by Session options are not supported for this release.
- Encryption Oracle data during the backup phase or the migration phase only supports encrypt data at Backup Server, encrypt data at Agent is not supported.
- Arcserve Backup does not support restoring multiple, encrypted, Oracle RMAN sessions in a single restore job. You must restore encrypted Oracle RMAN backup sessions as individual restore jobs.
- The Agent can support session passwords if Encrypted data at server side is selected from Global Options during backup.
- You should reboot the machine whenever you install a new Oracle database to avoid problems loading a driver (OCI.DLL).
- If you experience problems expanding the Oracle database after providing the correct login credentials, collapse the machine and then re-expand the tree to refresh the cache.
- You must supply the correct host name when registering the Agent for Oracle nodes in the Arcserve Backup database. If the Agent machine has a fully qualified name (computer name + domain name, such as NodeName.ca.com), then the full computer name must be used while registering the Agent node.
- For the Agent for Oracle on non-global zones on Solaris 10 (SPARC):
- If the common agent is not installed in global zones, you must complete the following steps before you install the Oracle Agent in non-global zones:
- global# mkdir -p /opt/Arcserve/ABcmagt; touch /opt/Arcserve/ABcmagt/caagent
- global# ln -sf /opt/Arcserve/ABcmagt/caagent /usr/bin/caagent
- If the common agent is not installed in global zones, you must complete the following steps before you install the Oracle Agent in non-global zones: