Dell Avamar for Oracle 19.10 User Guide

If you configure backup copies to be more than 1 in RMAN, the backups that you perform with the Avamar Plug-in for Oracle fail. For example, the following RMAN command sets backup copies to 3:

CONFIGURE ARCHIVELOG BACKUP COPIES FOR DEVICE TYPE SBT_TAPE TO 3;

Backups that you run from Avamar Administrator or RMAN scripts that you run from the command line fail after setting backup copies to 3:

• For backups from Avamar Administrator, an error message similar to the following error appears in the sbtio.log:

  error 7501: Could not connect to avoracle

• For backups from the RMAN command line, an error message similar to the following error appears in the avtar log file:

  avtar Error <5064>: Cannot open file cache_filename

The Avamar Plug-in for Oracle does not support the RMAN backup copies feature.

To prevent this backup failure, do not configure backup copies to be more than 1. The Oracle RMAN documentation provides more information about the backup copies feature.