Pre-requisites:

You must have Oracle license on Netbackup. (Correction. Oracle license is not required for this approach, Thanks to Bahadır)

Policy Creation:

1. Create the following scripts under directory /usr/openv/netbackup/bin

bpstart_notify

Change the following lines (arguments in bold) for your system. Lines 62 to 72.
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“FULL”)
echo `date` full backup started on $1 – policy $2 schedule $3 >> $OUTF
/usr/openv/netbackup/bin/db_begin_bkup -user oracle -home /u01/app/oracle/product/10.2.0/db_1 -base /u01/app/oracle -sid orcl -init /u01/app/oracle/product/10.2.0/db_1/admin/orcl/pfile/init.ora >> $OUTF
;;
“INCR”)
echo `date` differential incremental backup started on $1 – policy $2 schedule $3 >> $OUTF
/usr/openv/netbackup/bin/db_begin_bkup -user oracle -home /u01/app/oracle/product/10.2.0/db_1 -base /u01/app/oracle -sid orcl -init /u01/app/oracle/product/10.2.0/db_1/admin/orcl/pfile/init.ora >> $OUTF
;;
“CINC”)
echo `date` cumulative incremental backup started on $1 – policy $2 schedule $3 >> $OUTF
/usr/openv/netbackup/bin/db_begin_bkup -user oracle -home /u01/app/oracle/product/10.2.0/db_1 -base /u01/app/oracle -sid orcl -init /u01/app/oracle/product/10.2.0/db_1/admin/orcl/pfile/init.ora >> $OUTF
;;
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bpend_notify
Change the following lines (arguments in bold) for your system. Lines 64 to 75.
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“FULL”)
echo `date` full backup finished on $1 – policy $2 schedule $3. Exit status = $5 >> $OUTF
/usr/openv/netbackup/bin/db_end_bkup -user oracle -home /u01/app/oracle/product/10.2.0/db_1 -base /u01/app/oracle -sid orcl -init /u01/app/oracle/product/10.2.0/db_1/admin/orcl/pfile/init.ora >> $OUTF
;;
“INCR”)
echo `date` differential incremental backup finished on $1 – policy $2 schedule $3. Exit status = $5 >> $OUTF
/usr/openv/netbackup/bin/db_end_bkup -user oracle -home /u01/app/oracle/product/10.2.0/db_1 -base /u01/app/oracle -sid orcl -init /u01/app/oracle/product/10.2.0/db_1/admin/orcl/pfile/init.ora >> $OUTF
;;
“CINC”)
echo `date` cumulative incremental backup finished on $1 – policy $2 schedule $3. Exit status = $5 >> $OUTF
/usr/openv/netbackup/bin/db_end_bkup -user oracle -home /u01/app/oracle/product/10.2.0/db_1 -base /u01/app/oracle -sid orcl -init /u01/app/oracle/product/10.2.0/db_1/admin/orcl/pfile/init.ora >> $OUTF
;;
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db_begin_bkup
Change the following lines (at the end of the file, CUSTOMIZATION section)
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line 471
ORACLE_DBA=${ORACLE_DBA:=oracle}
line 479
ORACLE_BASE=${ORACLE_BASE:=/u01/app/oracle}
line 488
ORACLE_HOME=${ORACLE_HOME:=/u01/app/oracle/product/10.2.0/db_1}
line 494
ORACLE_SID=${ORACLE_SID:=orcl}
line 501
SQLCMD=${SQLCMD:=${ORACLE_HOME}/bin/sqlplus}
line 508
ORACLE_INIT=${ORACLE_INIT:=${ORACLE_HOME}/admin/${ORACLE_SID}/pfile/init.ora}
lines 516 and 517
MAIL_ADDR_SUCCESS=${MAIL_ADDR_SUCCESS:=root@localhost}
MAIL_ADDR_FAILURE=${MAIL_ADDR_FAILURE:=root@localhost}
line 529
LD_LIBRARY_PATH=${LD_LIBRARY_PATH:=${ORACLE_HOME}/lib}
line 536
CONTROL_DIR=/tmp/ORACLE_BACKUP
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db_end_bkup
Change the following lines (at the end of the file, CUSTOMIZATION section)
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line 410
ORACLE_DBA=${ORACLE_DBA:=oracle}
line 418
ORACLE_BASE=${ORACLE_BASE:=/u01/app/oracle}
line 427
ORACLE_HOME=${ORACLE_HOME:=/u01/app/oracle/product/10.2.0/db_1}
line 433
ORACLE_SID=${ORACLE_SID:=orcl}
line 440
SQLCMD=${SQLCMD:=${ORACLE_HOME}/bin/sqlplus}
line 447
ORACLE_INIT=${ORACLE_INIT:=${ORACLE_HOME}/admin/${ORACLE_SID}/pfile/init.ora}
lines 455 and 456
MAIL_ADDR_SUCCESS=${MAIL_ADDR_SUCCESS:=root@localhost}
MAIL_ADDR_FAILURE=${MAIL_ADDR_FAILURE:=root@localhost}
line 468
LD_LIBRARY_PATH=${LD_LIBRARY_PATH:=${ORACLE_HOME}/lib}
line 475
CONTROL_DIR=/tmp/ORACLE_BACKUP

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2. Create a policy, choose Policy Type to be standard and choose Oracle data directories and Archivelog directories in Backup Selections.

3. Name bpstart_notify as bpstart_notify.policy_name (e.g: if your backup policy name is OracleBackup then the file name should be bpstart_notify.OracleBackup)
Do the same for bpend_notify as well.
Do not rename db_begin_bkup and bp_end_bkup as they will be called by the first two scripts.

4. Make all the scripts executable and owned by root.

chown root bpstart_notify*
chown root bpend_notify*
chown root db_begin_bkup
chown root db_end_bkup

chmod 755 bpstart_notify*
chmod 755 bpend_notify*
chmod 755 db_begin_bkup
chmod 755 db_end_bkup

5. Try a manual backup and see if it works.

Ps : The scripts create the following files, so you can monitor script processes while the backup process continues.
BPRD_CALLED
SESSION_START_CALLED
BPSTART_CALLED
BACKUP_CALLED
BACKUP_EXIT_CALLED
SESSION_CALLED
BPEND_CALLED