Integrating RMAN with a Media Manager on UNIX: Basic Steps

Basic procedure of RMAN Integration with a Media Manager on UNIX: 

On UNIX OS,  media management library will be accessed by Oracle the through the UNIX shared

library libobk.so. This file must exist somewhere within the system path. It is highly

recommended that you simply place libobk.so in $ORACLE_HOME/lib, which is where

Oracle searches first.

You do not got to start or pack up the instance when installing the media

management library.

To integrate the media manager on UNIX:

1. If an old libobk.so symbolic link already exists in $ORACLE_HOME/lib, then remove it before installing the media manager. For example:

% rm $ORACLE_HOME/lib/libobk.so

2. After installation, check your media management vendor documentation to work out where the media management library is installed. For example, assume that the library is installed like  /vendor/lib/oracle_lib.so.

3. Besides the installed media management library to $ORACLE_HOME/lib/libobk.so name is changed, or create a symbolic link to the library called libobk.so. For example, you can create a symbolic link to the library as follows:

% ln -s /vendor/lib/oracle_lib.so $ORACLE_HOME/lib/libobk.so

Alternatively, you'll simply change the name of the library to libobk.so. For example:

% mv /vendor/lib/oracle_lib.so $ORACLE_HOME/lib/libobk.so