Oracle Archived Log Settings

If you back up an Oracle database, you can specify how Veeam Agent for Microsoft Windows must process archived logs:

1. At the Guest Processing step of the wizard, make sure that the Enable application-aware processing toggle is on.
2. Click Customize.
3. In the Customize Guest Processing Settings window, select the check box next to the protection group or individual computer and click Application Settings on the toolbar.
4. In the Processing Settings window, on the General tab, make sure that Require successful processing is selected in the Applications section, and Process transaction logs with this job is selected in the VSS settings section.
5. Open the Oracle tab.
6. Under Archived log processing, to specify a user account that Veeam Agent for Microsoft Windows will use to connect to the Oracle database, from the Specify an Oracle account with the SYSDBA privileges drop-down list, select a user account configured as specified in section Permissions for Guest Processing.

If you have not set up credentials beforehand, click the Manage credentials link or click Add on the right to add credentials.

By default, the Use guest credentials option is selected. With this option selected, Veeam Agent for Microsoft Windows will connect to the Oracle database under the account that you have specified for the protected computer in the protection group settings.

7. In the Archived logs section, specify if Veeam Agent for Microsoft Windows must delete archived redo logs on the Oracle database:

• Select Do not delete archived logs if you want Veeam Agent for Microsoft Windows to preserve archived logs. When the backup job completes, Veeam Agent for Microsoft Windows will not delete archived logs.

It is recommended that you select this option for databases for which the ARCHIVELOG mode is turned off. If the ARCHIVELOG mode is turned on, archived logs may grow large and consume all disk space. In this case, the database administrator must take care of archived logs him-/herself.

• Select Delete logs older than or Delete logs over if you want Veeam Agent for Microsoft Windows to delete archived logs that are older than the specified number of hours or larger than the specified size in GB. Veeam Agent for Microsoft Windows will wait for the backup job to complete successfully and then trigger archived logs deletion from the Oracle Call Interface (OCI) according to the specified settings. If the backup job fails, the logs will remain untouched until the next successful backup job session.

8. To back up Oracle archived logs with Veeam Agent for Microsoft Windows, select the Back up logs every check box and specify the frequency for archived logs backup in minutes. By default, archived logs are backed up every 15 minutes. The minimum log backup interval is 5 minutes. The maximum log backup interval is 480 minutes.
9. In the Retain log backups section, specify retention policy for archived logs stored in the backup location:

• Select Until the corresponding image-level backup is deleted to apply the same retention policy for Veeam Agent backups and archived log backups.
• Select Keep only last to keep archived logs for a specific number of days. By default, archived logs are kept for 15 days. If you select this option, you must make sure that retention for archived logs is not greater than retention for the Veeam Agent backups. For more information, see the Retention for Database Log Backups section in the Veeam Agent for Microsoft Windows User Guide.