The backup of OCR content(Oracle Cluster Registry, to know more about OCR click here) is performed using two methods:

1. Automatic OCR backup
2. Manually OCR backup
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1. Automatic OCR Backup

OCR is automatically backed up physically

• Every four hours
• At the end of every day
• At the end of every week

To check current location of automatic backup of OCR:

[root@rac1 crs]# ocrconfig –showbackup

rac1     2009/06/07 14:58:31     /apps/oracle/clusterware/product/10.2.0/crs/cdata/crs

rac1     2009/06/07 10:58:30     /apps/oracle/clusterware/product/10.2.0/crs/cdata/crs

rac1     2009/06/07 06:58:29     /apps/oracle/clusterware/product/10.2.0/crs/cdata/crs

rac1     2009/06/06 22:58:27     /apps/oracle/clusterware/product/10.2.0/crs/cdata/crs

rac2     2009/05/31 05:46:11     /apps/oracle/clusterware/product/10.2.0/crs/cdata/crs

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[root@rac1] cd $ORA_CRS_HOME /cdata/crs

List the existing backup

[root@rac1 crs]# ls -lst

total 27804
5032 -rw-r–r–  1 root root 5140480 Jun  7 14:58 backup00.ocr
5032 -rw-r–r–  1 root root 5140480 Jun  7 10:58 backup01.ocr
5032 -rw-r–r–  1 root root 5140480 Jun  7 06:58 backup02.ocr
4236 -rw-r–r–  1 root root 4325376 Jun  7 02:58 day_.ocr
4236 -rw-r–r–  1 root root 4325376 Jun  7 02:58 week_.ocr
4236 -rw-r–r–  1 root root 4325376 Jun  6 22:58 day.ocr
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Restoring OCR from automatic backup :

• Stop oracle clusterware on each node

[root@rac1]# crsctl stop crs

• Identify the most recent backup

[root@rac1 crs]# ocrconfig -showbackup

• Restore the backup file

[root@rac1 crs]# ocrconfig –restore <file_name>

• For example , to restore most recent backup

[root@rac1 crs]# ocrconfig –restore $ORA_CRS_HOME/cdata/crs/backup00.ocr

• Now verify the restore operation

root@rac1]# cluvfy comp ocr –n all

• Now restart Oracle clusterware on each node

root@rac1]# crsctl start crs

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2. Manual OCR backup:
You can take logical backup of OCR using export and can restore it using import command.

• Stop clusterware on every node.

root@rac1]# crsctl stop crs

• Export the OCR to specified location using this command.

root@rac1]# ocrconfig – export <path_ name>

• For example:

root@rac1]# ocrconfig – export /home/oracle/ocr

• Finally restart clusterware on every node

root@rac1]# crsctl start crs

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Recover OCR using physical backup:
To restore content on OCR file use import option of ocrconfig command.

• First, stop the clusterware on every node.

root@rac1]# crsctl stop crs

• Export the OCR to specified location using this command.

root@rac1]# ocrconfig –import <path_ name>

• For example:

root@rac1]# ocrconfig –import /home/oracle/ocr

• Then run oracle clusterware verification utility to check the integrity of OCR

root@rac1]# cluvfy comp ocr –n all

• Finally restart clusterware on every node

root@rac1]# crsctl start crs

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