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Practices for Lesson 7:


Tuning RMAN Backup
Performance
Practices for Lesson 7: Overview

Overview
In these practices, you will monitor an RMAN backup job.

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Practice 7-1: Monitoring an RMAN Backup Job

Overview
In this practice, you will monitor an RMAN backup job by using the V$SESSION_LONGOPS view.

Time Estimate
It should take approximately 10 minutes to complete this practice.

Tasks
1. Open a terminal window and log in to SQL*Plus. See Course Practice Environment:
Security Credentials for password information.
$ sqlplus system/<password>

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…
SQL>
2. Open a new terminal window. Start Recovery Manager and connect to the CDB root (target
database) as the SYS user.
$ rman target /
…
connected to target database: ORCLCDB (DBID=2778750799)

RMAN>
3. Create a whole database backup. Proceed to step 4 while the backup operation is in
progress.
RMAN> BACKUP DATABASE;
…
Starting backup at 2019-06-21:18:52:23
using target database control file instead of recovery catalog
allocated channel: ORA_DISK_1
channel ORA_DISK_1: SID=277 device type=DISK
channel ORA_DISK_1: starting full datafile backup set
…
Finished backup at 2019-06-21:18:53:01

Starting Control File and SPFILE Autobackup at 2019-06-


21:18:53:01
piece
handle=/u01/app/oracle/fast_recovery_area/ORCLCDB/autobackup/201
9_06_21/o1_mf_s_1011552781_gjt9wg1h_.bkp comment=NONE
Finished Control File and SPFILE Autobackup at 2019-06-
21:18:53:02

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RMAN>
4. Return to your first terminal session and execute the
$HOME/labs/DBMod_Backup/DBMod_Backup_MonitorBackup.sql script
approximately every 20 seconds to monitor the progress of the backup job.
SQL> @$HOME/labs/DBMod_Backup/DBMod_Backup_MonitorBackup

SID SERIAL# CONTEXT SOFAR TOTALWORK %_COMPLETE


--------- ---------- ---------- ---------- ---------- ----------
267 40731 5 0 638720 0

SQL> /

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SID SERIAL# CONTEXT SOFAR TOTALWORK %_COMPLETE
--------- ---------- ---------- ---------- ---------- ----------
267 40731 5 269440 638720 42.18

SQL> /

no rows selected

SQL>
Question: How can you use this query to determine if there is something wrong with the
backup job?
Answer: If you execute the query at intervals of 2 minutes or more and the %_COMPLETE
column does not increase, then it is likely that RMAN is encountering a problem.
5. Return to your RMAN session. After the backup completes, log out of RMAN.
RMAN> exit
…
$
6. Return to your SQL*Plus session. Log out of SQL*Plus.
SQL> exit
…
$
7. Close all terminal windows.

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