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Figure 20-1.
OSB administrative domain
A media server is a host that has at least one physical tape device connected to it. Media servers are responsible
for transferring data to and from the attached tape devices.
The client host is the server on which reside the Oracle databases and filesystem data that you want to back up
(and potentially restore). For a single-host environment a server can be the admin server, media server, and client
host in the OSB administrative domain.
OSB Interfaces
There are four tools you can use to run and manage OSB backup and restore tasks:
Enterprise Manager Database Control and Grid Control or Enterprise Manager 12c Cloud Control
•
•
Oracle Secure Backup web tool
obtool
)
•
Oracle Secure Backup command-line tool (
rman
)
•
Recover Manager command-line tool (
Although the graphical interfaces are somewhat intuitive and easy to use, I'm a strong believer in learning how
to run a tool from the command line. Doing so gives you a better understanding of the underlying architecture,
knowledge that is invaluable when troubleshooting and diagnosing problems. In that vein, this chapter focuses on
using
obtool
and
rman
to configure and run OSB backup and restore tasks.
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For complete details on all the OSB interfaces, see the
Oracle Secure Backup Administrator's Guide
and
Oracle
Secure Backup Reference
, available at
www.oracle.com/technetwork/database/secure-backup/documentation/
.
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