Installation requirements for Oracle Incremental Merge
Before you perform any Oracle Incremental Merge operations on Linux, ensure that you complete the following installation procedures.
Steps
Ensure that you have completed the installation of the Oracle RMAN agent software on Linux according to the procedures outlined in this chapter.
To enable BoostFS mount-based operations, complete the following steps:
NOTE:The latest Oracle RMAN agent download package for Linux includes the DD BoostFS 7.12 package for both RHEL and SLES. If preferred, you can install this BoostFS 7.12 package by running the Oracle RMAN agent installation script as the root user. The following substeps a to c are mandatory only for an earlier version of BoostFS.
Ensure that you meet the DD BoostFS requirements as described in the latest version of the
DD BoostFS for Linux Configuration Guide, available on the
Customer Support website.
Download the DD BoostFS software package from the
Customer Support website to a temporary local directory. BoostFS version 7.11 is recommended.
Install the DD BoostFS software by running the following command as the root user:
# rpm -ivh <BoostFS_package_name>.rpm
NOTE:Installation of the DD BoostFS software in a nondefault location is not supported.
To enable NFS mount-based operations, edit the
/etc/fstab file and add the required entries. The mount options
rw,actimeo=0,fg,user,hard,nointr,tcp,timeo=600,nolock are mandatory for the NFS mount-based operations. For example: