1. Database Installation Guide
  2. Configuring Users, Groups and Environments for Oracle Grid Infrastructure and Oracle Database
  3. Creating Operating System Privileges Groups
  4. Creating the OSBACKUPDBA Group for Database Installations

Creating the OSBACKUPDBA Group for Database Installations

You must designate a group as the OSBACKUPDBA group during installation. Members of this group are granted the SYSBACKUP privileges to perform backup and recovery operations using RMAN or SQL*Plus.

Create the OSBACKUPDBA group using the group name backupdba, unless a group with that name already exists: 

# /usr/sbin/groupadd -g 54324 backupdba

Parent topic: Creating Operating System Privileges Groups