Dell Avamar for Oracle 19.10 User Guide

Creating an avtar flag file

When you use RMAN to back up Oracle rather than Avamar Administrator, you must specify the backup expiration time. Otherwise, backups that are stored on the Avamar server never expire. Specify the backup expiration by including the --expires option for the avtar command in the avtar flag file. The avtar process reads the avtar flag file during RMAN backups and restores.

1. Create a plain text file with a text editor.
   The remaining steps use my-avtar-flags.txt file as an example flag file.
2. Add the following entries to the text file:

   --pidname=Oracle
   --pidnum=pidnum
   --logfile=install-dir/var/clientlogs/avtar.log
   --vardir=install-dir/var/clientlogs
   --id=user
   --ap=password
   --path=/clients/my-db-client
   --expires={num-days |timestamp}

   where:

   • pidnum is the correct PID number for the operating system:
     • For Linux, use PID 1002.
     • For Solaris, use 2002.
     • For Windows, use 3002.
     • For HP-UX, use 4002.
     • For AIX, use 5002.
   • install-dir is the base installation directory for the platform. For example, specify /usr/local/avamar on Linux, /opt/AVMRclnt on Solaris, C:\Progra~1\avs\bin on Windows, and so forth.
   • user is an Avamar administrative user account.
   • password is the Avamar administrative password.
   • my-db-client is the Oracle database hostname.
   • {num-days |timestamp} specifies backup expiration as the number of days from today (num-days) or an absolute timestamp.
3. To use an RMAN script to back up Oracle to Data Domain systems, add the following Data Domain-specific entries:

   --ddr=true
   --ddr-index=ddr-index

   where ddr-index is the index number (1, 2, 3, and so forth) that you assign to the Data Domain system when you add it to the Avamar server configuration.
   NOTE:

   If the backup is not to a Data Domain System, then add the following entry:

   --ddr=false

4. Save the file to /oracle or another convenient place in the search path.