Installing the Oracle Secure Backup Device Driver Manually

If your media server has missing or modified system files, major device numbers already in use, unexpected protection attributes, or other site-specific characteristics, then using installdriver to install the driver might not work. Rather, you need to install the driver kernel manually.

This section contains the following topics:

Installing the Driver on Solaris 2.8 and Later

Installing the Driver on Solaris 2.8 and Later

Perform the following steps to install the Oracle Secure Backup device driver under Solaris 2.8 and later using operating system commands.

Note:

These are the same steps performed by the install/installdriver shell script. It is strongly recommended that you perform this task by running that script instead of using the manual process described here.

Ensure you are logged in as root.
Check if there is a version of the Oracle Secure Backup driver currently installed:
```
# /usr/sbin/modinfo | grep ob
```
If this indicates that the driver named ob is installed, ensure there are no processes using the device driver. (If any Oracle Secure Backup daemons are running, stop them at this time using kill -9.)

Then uninstall the current driver. For example:
```
# /usr/sbin/rem_drv ob
```
Copy the driver from the Oracle Secure Backup Solaris driver directory to /usr/kernel/drv. For example:
```
cp /usr/local/oracle/backup/.drv.solaris64/ob /usr/kernel/drv/ob
```
Copy the driver's ob.conf file:
```
cp /usr/local/oracle/backup/.drv.solaris64/ob.conf /usr/kernel/drv/ob.conf
```
This ob.conf file allows Oracle Secure Backup devices to reside at any SCSI target, logical unit number (LUN) 0 or 1, on any bus. You can modify ob.conf to specify SCSI targets that correspond only to the devices you want to configure for use by Oracle Secure Backup. Also, you might need to modify the ob.conf file to include LUNs other than 0 or 1 for devices to be claimed by the Oracle Secure Backup driver.

Copy the 64-bit version of the driver to /usr/kernel/drv/sparcv9. For example:

cp /usr/local/oracle/backup/.drv.solaris64/ob64 /usr/kernel/drv/sparcv9/ob

Add the driver to the system using add_drv:

/usr/sbin/add_drv -m '* 0666 bin bin' ob

Use install/makedev to create device files for your libraries and drives.