Dealing with OCR Backup ( Oracle Cluster Registery)

OCR calls Oracle Cluster Registry. It stores cluster configuration information. It is also shared disk component. It must be accessed by all nodes in cluster environment.It also keeps information of Which database instance run on which nodes and which service runs on which database.The process daemon OCSSd manages the configuration info in OCR and maintains the changes to cluster in the registry.

There’s Two Kind Of OCR Backup :

$ORA_CRS_HOME/cdata 
Or
ocrconfig -showbackup 

 Want to change The Default Location for automatic backup :

ocrconfig -backuploc

$ocrconfig -export /u04/crs_backup/ocrbackup/exports/OCRFile_expBackup.dmp
$ocrconfig -export /u04/crs_backup/ocrbackup/exports/OCRFile_expBackup.dmp

$ocrconfig -showbackup 
$srvctl -stop database -d ORCL (Shutdown all RAC instances and RAC database)
$crsctl stop crs (Shutdown Cluster)
#ocrconfig -restore /u02/apps/crs/cdata/crs/backup00.ocr
$crsctl start crs (After issuing start cluster check status of cluster using ‘crs_stat -t’)
$srvctl start database -d ORCL (Start Oracle RAC database and RAC instances)

$srvctl -stop database -d ORCL (Shutdown all RAC instances and RAC database)
$crsctl stop crs (Shutdown Cluster)

SAME process should need to repeat for OCR mirror also.

ocrconfig -import /u04/crs_backup/ocrbackup/exports/OCRFile_exp_Backup.dmp (Import metadata of OCR using command)
$crsctl start crs (After issuing start cluster check status of cluster using ‘crs_stat -t’)
$srvctl start database -d ORCL (Start Oracle RAC database and RAC instances)

• Oracle takes physical backup of OCR automatically.
• No Cluster downtime or RAC database down time requires for PHYSICAL backup of OCR.
• No Cluster downtime or RAC database down time requires for MANUAL export backup of OCR.
• For recovery of OCR from any of above backup it should need to down ALL.
• All procedure requires ROOT login. 

Thank you
Osama mustafa