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.

Considerations and Limitations

Consider the following about authenticating against an Oracle database:

[For database authentication method] By default, you must authenticate against the database with a user account that has SYSDBA privileges. This applies to Linux, Unix and Microsoft Windows environments.

With Oracle Database 12c and later, you can configure Veeam Plug-In to allow authentication with a user account that has SYSBACKUP privileges instead. To change the required user privileges, add the following parameter in the veeam_config.xml file:

All target databases must be active on the Oracle server. If any of the selected databases are not active, connection attempts will fail.

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