Create a Backup Destination

This topic provides the details and procedure to create a Backup Destination.

Procedure

Perform the following steps in the Console.

  1. On the Backup Destination list page, select Create Backup Destination, and provide the following details.

    • Display name: The display name is a user-friendly name that you can use to identify the resource. The name doesn’t need to be unique, because an Oracle Cloud Identifier (OCID) uniquely identifies the resource.

    • Compartment: From the list of available compartments, select the compartment that you want to contain this resource. By default, the current compartment is selected.

    • Backup Destination type: Select Recovery Appliance or Network Storage (NFS).

      • If you select Recovery Appliance, specify the following information:

        • Recovery Appliance connection string: Specify the Oracle Net Services connection string for the Recovery Appliance. This information is typically provided by the Recovery Appliance administrator. Specify the connection string in Oracle Easy Connect format, where host is the SCAN host name of the Recovery Appliance.

          host:port/service_name

        • Virtual Private Catalog (VPC) users: Specify one or more VPC user names used to connect to the Recovery Appliance. You can specify multiple VPC user names if you plan to use the Recovery Appliance as the backup destination for multiple databases. This information is typically provided by the Recovery Appliance administrator.

      • If you select Network Storage (NFS), specify the following information:

        • Local NFS mount point path: Specify the local directory path on each VM Cluster node where the NFS server location is mounted. The local mount point and the NFS server location must be identical on all VM Cluster nodes.

    • Advanced Options: Expand to provide additional details.

      • Tags: Expand to provide additional details. You can add free-form tags or defined tags to this resource. You must have permission to use the tag namespace for defined tags. For more information about using tags to manage your resources, see Tags. Tags can be applied later or at any time to a resource.

  2. Select Create.

The Backup Destination list page displays the newly created Backup Destination.