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Back Up in an Oracle RAC Environment

You can back up data in an Oracle RAC environment with Arcserve Backup and the Agent.

To back up in an Oracle RAC Environment

  1. Verify that the Oracle Server service is running in your RAC environment.
  2. Start Arcserve Backup and open the Backup Manager.
  3. On the Source tab, browse the Microsoft Network or the preferred shares to locate one of Oracle RAC nodes.
  4. Select the appropriate Oracle server from its Oracle RAC nodes.
  5. To set backup options, select the Source tab and then right-click to select Local Options.

    The Oracle Backup Options dialog opens.

  6. On the Agent for Oracle Options dialog, select Backup Oracle with RMAN Backup.
  7. Double-click the Oracle server to display and select tablespaces for this instance.
  8. Click the Destination tab and select a backup destination.
  9. Click the Schedule tab and select the scheduling options you want to assign to this backup job.
  10. Click Submit on the toolbar.

    The Submit Job dialog opens.

  11. Enter the user name and password of the Oracle RAC node. To enter or change security information for the Oracle RAC node, select the Oracle RAC node and click Security.

    Click OK.

The job is submitted.