Required Backup Job Settings
When you create a backup job, make sure to enable the application-aware image processing option, as described in the Specify Guest Processing Settings section of the Veeam Backup & Replication user guide.
If your backups were created without application-aware image processing, you can still explore them, as described in Exploring non-Application Enabled Backups.
The application-specific information is retrieved according to the following:
- If the application-aware image processing option is enabled, Veeam Explorer for Oracle obtains application-specific Oracle database information from the Oracle VM backup metadata located in the backup server configuration database.
- If the application-aware image processing option is disabled, Veeam Explorer for Oracle requires a staging Oracle server to mount a selected image-level Oracle VM backup (with databases and redo logs) and collect required information using the guest scan and Oracle infrastructure analysis.
Important |
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. |