Database Software

Hi,

This is probably a dumb question, but I'm just starting off with RMAN (and RAC). Let me start with a bit of background to put things in context.

I have a 2 node cluster (11g)
We use bacula as our enterprise backup tool. A bacula agent runs on each machine to be backed up and copies files to be backed up to our backup server. From there, bacula writes the files to tape.
On our standalone database servers, the bacula agent runs a pre-backup job that executes a user-managed backup to write all the database files to an 'ok-to-backup' directory. The bacula agent then copies those files to the backup server.
The cluster is using ASM storage for datafiles (obviously), redo log files and archived redo logs.

With the move to RAC, a user-managed backup makes things a lot harder so I figured that using RMAN would both simplify the RAC backups and eventually give us the motivation to replace the user-managed backup scripts with RMAN on our standalone (non-clustered) database servers.

I expected RMAN to be 'cluster-aware', but when I issued the RMAN 'shutdown' command, it only shut down the instance on the local node. I assume 'startup' will only start the instance on the local node.

How do I configure RMAN to shutdown/startup all nodes of the cluster?

Thanks,

Steve

Edited by: steve_baldwin on Jan 26, 2009 12:22 AM