oracle RAC backup the OCR files, and the vote disk.

Hello Team,

By using Oracle iDA we can’t take backup of ASM parameter file, OCR and voting disk.

Regards,

Karthikeyan K

@punbs @Karthikeyan K  what if we are taking File system agent backup , can it be backed up 

Hello Ajai,

If you’re taking file system backup, it would have access to the file system in the server.

It cant access the ASM disks.

May be you can check at storage level snapshot.

Regards,

Karthikeyan K

@Karthikeyan K  thank you, i have seen below link for  RAC system recovery .

where it mentioned below steps . it mention in point 2 that if we have local backup copy of OCR, this is the only way ?

what is best way to have all the back up incase of a failure 

 https://documentation.commvault.com/2024/essential/full_system_recovery_oracle_rac.html

1. Create the ASM instance and the required ASM diskgroups for the database, the OCR files, and the vote disk.

2. If you have a local backup copy of the Oracle Cluster Registry (OCR), then restore the OCR backup to the OCR diskgroup. If the backup does not exist, then create a new OCR.

3. Make sure that the listener is running and configured correctly.

4. Make sure that the ASM instance, the ASM diskgroup and the listener are registered to the Oracle Clusterware. If needed, use the srvctl utility to register the entities.

@Karthikeyan K also what is the below link referring to Configuring Backups of Oracle ASM Diskgroup Metadata (commvault.com)

@Gowri Shankar  any  advise here thanks in advavne

Hi @Ajal 

OCR,cluster config are not RMAN aware. The only way to protect them is using a FS Agent as advised by @Karthikeyan K 

RMAN protects only the oracle data and not the application.

Hope this help.

Regards,

Gowri Shankar

Thanks @Gowri Shankar what i understood is its not possible even with fs agent

Hi all, 

For this use the postprocess and create a shell script define the user to run this script with root privileges

The final repository depends of ocrconfig command, and don’t forget set the oracle environment in the script