PowerProtect Data Manager Appliance 5.15.0.0 Oracle RMAN User Guide

Notes

• You can only protect an asset with one policy at a time. Assets can move between protection policies, depending on the protection rule priorities. Protection rules do not automatically move assets that were manually added to a policy to a different policy.
• When creating a policy, limit the number of database assets within the policy to under 500 and stagger the start time of replication policies. These actions prevent potential replication failures.
• Before scheduling weekly, monthly, or yearly backups, set the PowerProtect Data Manager Appliance time zone to the local time zone. Otherwise, the backup still runs but is triggered based on the PowerProtect Data Manager Appliance time zone.
• Policy-level credentials are mandatory. Credentials that you set at the asset level and host level take precedence over the credentials that you set at the protection policy level. Asset-level credentials have the highest precedence.
• For database backups, PowerProtect Data Manager Appliance chains the dependent backups together. For example, the incremental or transaction log backups are chained to their base full backup. The backups do not expire until the last backup in the chain expires. As a result, all incremental and transaction log backups are recoverable until they have all expired.
• When a new asset is added to an existing policy, you must run an ad hoc full backup for the newly added asset.
• When a new asset is added to a protection policy during a scheduled backup window, the backup starts right away. However, if an asset is added to a protection policy outside of the scheduled backup window, the backup does not start until the next time that backups are configured to run.
• If a new asset is added to a protection policy that has a weekly or monthly backup schedule and the current time is within the scheduled Start and End times, the backup runs right away, regardless of the date. If the current time is not within the scheduled Start and End times, the backup does not start until the next time that backups are configured to run.

Initial configuration

• Enable the Oracle database asset source.
• Review the authentication requirements for an Oracle database.
• Add any required Oracle database credentials.
• Register the application hosts with PowerProtect Data Manager Appliance.
• Perform a discovery of the application hosts.
• Where applicable, configure any necessary Service Level Agreements (SLAs). The PowerProtect Data Manager Appliance Administrator Guide provides instructions.
• Assign a preferred node in the Oracle RAC environment.

Objectives

• To move a backup or replica to Cloud Tier, the corresponding objectives must have a retention time of 14 days or more.
• If you want to replicate only specific backups, perform a manual replication of these backups in advance.

Storage

• Add protection storage.

  The PowerProtect Data Manager Appliance Administrator Guide provides more information about working with storage units, such as the relationships between storage units and policies, security considerations, and applicable limitations.

• Before you add a replication objective, add remote protection storage for the replication target.
• Before you add a Cloud Tier objective, PowerProtect Data Manager Appliance requires:
  • Protection storage set up for Cloud Tier, with the system passphrase set.
  • The discovery of protection storage with a configured Cloud unit.
  • A configured and running data movement schedule on the cloud storage unit.
  The DDOS Administration Guide provides more information.

Networking

If applicable, complete all of the virtual network configuration tasks before you assign any virtual networks to the protection policy. The PowerProtect Data Manager Appliance Administrator Guide provides more information.