Dell Avamar for Oracle 19.10 User Guide

Preprocessing and postprocessing backup and restore scripts

The Avamar Plug-in for Oracle supports preprocessing and postprocessing scripts for both backup and restore operations that you perform in Avamar Administrator.

Preprocessing and postprocessing scripts are user-written shell scripts (.sh) on Linux or UNIX. On Windows, scripts are batch scripts (.bat), vb Scripts (.vbs), and JScripts (.js). The Avamar Plug-in for Oracle runs preprocessing and postprocessing scripts as root on Linux or UNIX, and as an administrator on Windows.

You can use preprocessing and postprocessing scripts for various tasks, such as the following tasks:

• Copying logs from the var directory to different directory before a backup.
• Preparing the databases for a backup or restore.
• Running SQL queries to get database information.
• Setting environment parameters.

All preprocessing and postprocessing scripts must be in the /avamar/etc/scripts directory on the client. The preprocessing and postprocessing feature is an advanced option in Avamar Administrator. Preprocessing and postprocessing scripts and attributes provides more information.

In addition to using preprocessing and postprocessing scripts, the Avamar Plug-in for Oracle supports the use of preprocessing and postprocessing attributes. Specify preprocessing and postprocessing attributes and attribute values in the Enter Attribute and Enter Attribute Value fields.