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Best Practices for Protecting Oracle Data

UNIX and Linux Data Mover lets you back up Oracle data to locally attached file system devices and tape libraries that are shared with the primary server. This capability lets you transfer data via local communication, which helps to reduce the load on your network.

To back up data at Oracle database granularity, you must install the Agent for Oracle on the data mover servers.

The following sections describe best practices that you can use to protect Oracle data using UNIX and Linux Data Mover.

This section contains the following topics:

Back Up Oracle Database Data to Data Mover Servers

How to Back Up Oracle Database Data to Data Mover Servers Using the RMAN Console

How to Restore Oracle Database Data from Data Mover Servers

How to Back Up and Restore Oracle Database Data Using Local Data Mover Servers in a Multi-NIC Environment

Troubleshooting Oracle RMAN Backups with UNIX and Linux Data Mover

Log Files You Can Use to Analyze Failed Jobs

How to Configure UNIX and Linux Data Mover and the Agent for Oracle in an Oracle RAC Environment