Veeam Plug-in for Oracle RMAN

Veeam Backup & Replication offers two options to protect Oracle databases:

• Veeam Plug-in for Oracle RMAN: for transactionally-consistent RMAN-based backups of Oracle databases.
• Veeam Backup & Replication or Veeam Agents: for image-level backups of Oracle servers.

You can use both or one of the options depending on your environment specifics and approach to handle Oracle databases.

Veeam Plug-in for Oracle RMAN

Veeam Plug-in uses the backup and restore functionality of Oracle Recovery Manager (RMAN) and transfers backups to Veeam backup repositories.

Use Veeam Plug-in to back up Oracle databases in the following cases:

• If you want the Oracle database administrator to fully control the backup and recovery processes.
• If you want to use existing Oracle RMAN scripts or external schedulers.
• If you use Oracle RAC.
• If you use ASM disks on a physical server.

Veeam Backup & Replication or Veeam Agents

Veeam Backup & Replication (or Veeam Agent) performs image-level/file-level backup and restore of Oracle servers. Use Veeam Backup & Replication or Veeam Agents to back up Oracle servers in the following cases:

• If you do not have Oracle database administrators.
• If you want to control backup and restore processes on the Veeam Backup & Replication side.

If you want to use Veeam Backup & Replication to protect Oracle servers, see the Creating Backup Jobs section of the Veeam Backup & Replication User Guide.

If you want to use Veeam Agents to protect Oracle servers, see one of the following guides: Veeam Agent for Linux, Veeam Agent for Microsoft Windows, Veeam Agent for IBM AIX.

In This Section

• How Veeam Plug-in for Oracle RMAN Works
• Planning and Preparation
• Deployment and Configuration
• Database Protection
• Database Recovery
• Retention of RMAN Backups
• Backup Copy for Oracle RMAN Backups
• Logs and Support