Three weeks ago I have ordered the Oracle Database Backup Service. The registration via shop.oracle.com was easy, minutes later after I have entered my credit card details and pressed the submit button, I got the login information via email and Oracle has given me a new CSI number. Some time later I took a look in My Oracle Support, my new CSI was added but in state PENDING. Now I clicked on the button to Request Access. This message cames up, this is the normal procedure when you buy a product at at Oracle and when you get a new CSI. I clicked on Accept Responsability. Afterwards the button below has changed to Request Access. And now I am administrator…
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Oracle Database Backup Service Configuration – java.net.UnknownHostException
In all the trials in the Oracle cloud in the past, I used the same syntax below to configure the Oracle Database Backup Service on my local servers. Last week I have decided to order the Service via shop.oracle.com. Now I am an official owner of an Oracle cloud account with a CSI :-). But back to my problem, after my account was created I got the mail with the configuration details. So far so good. Then I tried to configure the OPC package as always: oracle@bern:/u00/app/oracle/stage/ [ORCL] java -jar opc_install.jar -serviceName <my-storage> -identityDomain <my-identitydomain> -opcId ‘<my-username>’ -opcPass ‘<my-password>’ -walletDir $ORACLE_BASE/opc_wallet -libDir $ORACLE_HOME/lib -configFile $ORACLE_BASE/admin/ORCL/opc_config/opcORCL.ora Oracle Database Cloud Backup Module Install Tool, build 2016-02-04 java.net.UnknownHostException: <my-identitydomain>.storage.oraclecloud.com at java.net.AbstractPlainSocketImpl.connect(AbstractPlainSocketImpl.java:178) at java.net.SocksSocketImpl.connect(SocksSocketImpl.java:392)…
Read MoreFrom the Command Line into the to the Oracle Cloud – the ORACLE-DBCS-CLI Utility
The Oracle ORACLE-DBCS-CLI utility is a command-line interface tool to manage the lifecycle of your Database as as Service instances in cloud.oracle.com. You can create and delete instances, verify and apply patches, scale your instances up and down and many more. The advantage is that you can work with configuration files. And I like to work with such files, if I need 10 instances with the same shape, I have only to search and replace the instance name – fire! The ORACLE-DBCS-CLI utility is available for Unix platforms at the moment. I have installed ORACLE-DBCS-CLI on a Oracle Linux 6.5, JDK version 1.7 or higher is required. Download and Documents The software can be downloaded here: http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/database/database-cloud/public/downloads/index.html The ORACLE-DBCS-CLI documentation starts here: https://docs.oracle.com/cloud/latest/dbcs_dbaas/CSDBI/GUID-E9F2219D-EBDC-44B3-BE22-BEED6C2BAB74.htm#CSDBI-GUID-E9F2219D-EBDC-44B3-BE22-BEED6C2BAB74 Installation After download…
Read Morecloud.oracle.com – Create a Storage Container for a Backup in the Cloud
Why to use the Oracle Backup Cloud storage? During the instance creation process – the full deployed instance, not for the virtual machine – you can select if you want to store your database local or in the cloud – or both. The benefit to store a instance backup by RMAN in the cloud? Storage redundancy, easy access, full RMAN integration and with a service price of $33 / TB / Month it’s a real storage option. Here is the step where you can select the backup storage option. Information Gathering Before you can use this storage, you have to configure a storage container first. This can be done via REST command for example by a tool like curl. In…
Read MoreLost Disk after DBaaS Restart via Cloud Service Console
I have created a DBaaS instance three weeks ago, and now it was time to attach new storage in the Oracle Compute Cloud Service to have additional disk space for some Trivadis tools. But after a reboot with a mouse-click in the DBaaS Cloud Service Console, the disk was lost and had to be re-attached. The procedure to add additional storage is documented in this Oracle tutorial: http://www.oracle.com/webfolder/technetwork/tutorials/obe/cloud/dbaas/OU/IntroDBaaS/AddStorageDBaaSInstance/AddStorageDBaaSInstance.html Creating additional Storage in the Oracle Compute Cloud Service In the Create Storage Volume menu, I have created a new storage volume of 10GB and attached it to my running DBaaS instance called TrivadisExPerf. OS Verfication After some minutes waiting, I logged in on the database server to verify the operation. The…
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