Oracle RMAN Interview Question:

What are the steps required to perform in $ORACLE_HOME for enabling the RMAN backups with netbackup or TSM tape library software?

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To take a rman backup with TSM tape library as follows
1.Install TDPO (default path /usr/tivoli/tsm/client/oracle/)
2.Once u installed the TDPO,automatically one link is created from TDPO directory to /usr/lib. Now we need to Create soft link between OS to ORACLE_HOME ln -s /usr/lib/libiobk64. a $ORACLE_HOME/lib/libobk.a(very imporatant)
3.Uncomment and Modify tdpo.opt file which in /usr/tivoli/tsm/client/oracle/bin/tdpo.opt as followsDSMI_ORC_CONFIG /usr/tivoli/tsm/client/oracle/bin64/dsm.optDSMI_LOG /home/tmp/oracleTDPO_NODE backupTDPO_PSWDPATH /usr/tivoli/tsm/client/oracle/bin64
4.create dsm.sys file in same path and add the entriesSErvername TCPPort 1500 passwordacess prompt nodename backup enablelanfree yesTCPSERVERADDRESS
5.Create dsm.opt file add an entrySErvername 5. Then take backupRMAN>run { allocate channel t1 type 'sbt_tape' parms 'ENV=(TDPO_OPTFILE=/usr/tivoli/tsm/client/oracle/bin64/tdpo.opt)'; backup database include current controlfile; release channel t1; }
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