Authentication Against Database

When you configure Veeam Plug-in for Oracle RMAN, you can choose between the operating system authentication and database authentication methods to connect to the database you plan to back up.

When you use operating system authentication, you can connect to the server and to the database using only the OS user credentials.
When you use database authentication, you can connect to the server using OS user credentials and to the database using database user credentials.

Veeam Plug-in stores all specified credentials in the Veeam Plug-in configuration file.

Note

Consider the following:

If you select the database authentication method, make sure that the database user account has SYSBACKUP privileges. This applies for Linux, Unix and Microsoft Windows environments.
All target databases must be active on the Oracle server. If any of the selected databases are not active, connection attempts will fail.

For more information on setting authentication methods, see Configuring Plug-in on Linux and Unix or Configuring Plug-in on Microsoft Windows.