Running the Recovery Appliance Backup Module Installer

Install the Recovery Appliance backup module in the host file system of the protected database. Since the Recovery Appliance backup module is a shared library, it must be installed into a location within the shared library search path that is visible to every protected database instance. For example, $ORACLE_HOME/lib is the default location for shared libraries for the Oracle database.

The Recovery Appliance backup module location is used with the SBT_LIBRARY parameter in the ALLOCATE CHANNEL or CONFIGURE CHANNEL commands.

To run the Recovery Appliance backup module installer:

  1. Unzip the installer downloaded in "Obtaining the Installer for the Recovery Appliance Backup Module" into a local directory.

    The installer contains the following files: ra_install.jar and ra_readme.txt.

  2. Ensure that the ORACLE_HOME environment variable is set to the Oracle home of the protected database.
  3. Run the installer ra_install.jar by providing the mandatory parameters. Table 3-1 describes the parameters required to install the Recovery Appliance backup module.

    For example, the following command runs the Recovery Appliance installer with the VPC user name rauser11 and password rau11pswd. The Oracle wallet containing the Recovery Appliance credentials is stored in $ORACLE_HOME/dbs/ra_wallet and the SBT library for the Recovery Appliance backup module is stored in $ORACLE_HOME/lib. The Single Client Access Name (SCAN) of the Recovery Appliance is ra-scan, the listener port number of the Recovery Appliance metadata database is 1521, and the service name of the Recovery Appliance metadata database is myzdlra. 

    % java -jar ra_install.jar -dbUser rauser11 -dbPass rau11pswd -host ra-scan -port 1521 
-serviceName myzdlra -walletDir $ORACLE_HOME/dba/ra_wallet -libDir $ORACLE_HOME/lib 
-proxyHost www-proxy.mycompany.com

See Also: