Required Job Settings

When you create backup jobs, replication jobs, and CDP policies, make sure to enable application-aware processing in the Veeam Backup & Replication console:

When you configure a backup job, you can do this at the Specify Guest Processing Settings step of the New Backup Job wizard.
When you configure a replication job, you can do this at the Specify Guest Processing Settings step of the New Replication Job wizard.
When you configure a CDP policy, you can do this at the Specify Guest Processing Settings step of the New CDP Policy wizard.

Without application-aware processing, the created restore points will be crash-consistent only.

Veeam Explorer for Oracle allows you to explore crash-consistent restore points with heuristic analysis, which scans the restore point for application data. Note that application item restore from crash-consistent restore points is less reliable than restore from application-consistent restore points. Without application-aware processing, the restore point could contain unfinished database transactions or incomplete application files, which may affect data recovery.

Consider the following:

For backups made with Veeam Backup for OLVM and RHV and Veeam Backup for Proxmox VE, application-aware processing is not supported.
For VeeamZIP backups, application-aware processing is not supported. For more information, see the VeeamZIP section of the Veeam Backup & Replication User Guide.
For storage snapshots, application-aware processing is automatically enabled. For more information, see the Application Item Restore from Storage Snapshots section of the Veeam Backup & Replication User Guide.

For details on how to explore restore points created without application-aware processing, see Exploring non-Application Enabled Backups.

The application-specific information is retrieved according to the following logic:

If the application-aware processing is enabled, Veeam Explorer for Oracle obtains application-specific Oracle database information from the backup metadata located in the backup server configuration database.

If the application-aware processing is disabled, Veeam Explorer for Oracle requires a staging Oracle server to mount the selected image-level backup (with databases and redo logs) and to collect required information using the guest scan and Oracle infrastructure analysis.

Important

Consider the following:

Make sure to have your database in the OPEN state during backup. Otherwise, the following warning message will appear in the backup job session: Oracle database instance state is not valid for property collection.
Whether the backup job completes or fails depends on the selected backup job settings. For more information, see the Application-Aware Processing section of the Veeam Backup & Replication User Guide.