Oracle Secure Backup is a centralized, network based backup management application that backs up both Oracle Databases and file-system data across Linux, UNIX, and Windows operating systems. Oracle Secure Backup can centrally manage backup and restore operations of distributed, mixed-platform environments to tape, disk pool, and cloud storage devices. For Recovery Manager (RMAN), the Oracle Secure Backup serves as a media manager or the SBT interface that enables RMAN to send encrypted backups directly to tape. Oracle Enterprise Manager provides a unified interface for RMAN and Oracle Secure Backup. Managing tape devices, disk pools, and media servers using Oracle Enterprise Manager is exclusive to Oracle Secure Backup.
Oracle Secure Backup has ongoing support added for most major brand tape drives and libraries in Storage Area Network (SAN) and SCSI environments.
Oracle Secure Backup manages the backup and restore operations for heterogeneous environments by organizing the host computers into an administrative domain. The administrative domain consists of one administrative server, one or more media servers, and one or more clients.
- The administrative server contains configuration information about all the hosts in the domain. It also stores the backup catalog that contains metadata about the backup and restore operations. You can have only one administrative server in an administrative domain.
A media server is a host that has secondary storage devices attached to it. It manages the movement of data to and from the secondary storage devices. Media servers can be directly attached to SAN-attached disk pools or tape drives that are either standalone or contained in tape libraries.
Any host in the administrative domain containing data that needs to be backed up is referred to as a client. Clients can include Oracle Databases and file-system data, they can be NDMP NAS servers, Linux, UNIX, or Windows hosts.
Oracle Secure Backup supplies an SBT interface that RMAN can use to back up database files to tape. You can use the RMAN command line client or Oracle Enterprise Manager interface to perform RMAN backup and recovery operations with Oracle Secure Backup. You use regular RMAN restore and recover operations to restore a database.
A file-system backup is initiated through the Oracle Secure Backup Web tool or obtool commands. A file-system backup can include any file on the file system. You use the Web tool to schedule automatic backups or to perform on-demand backup of filesystems. You can use the Oracle Secure Backup to restore file system data using a catalog-based restore operation or a raw restore operation.
Oracle Secure Backup supports storing data in OCI Object Storage. The cloud storage is useful for data that the user accesses infrequently, but is made available when needed.
The Oracle Secure Backup Cloud Module is part of the Oracle Secure Backup product family and provides the flexibility to back up your database to the Amazon S3 Cloud and to tape. With this cloud offering, local disk backups are sent directly to Amazon S3 for offsite storage and are fully integrated with Recovery Manager (RMAN) features and functionality.
Oracle Secure Backup maintains backup metadata for all RMAN and file-system backup operations on the administrative server.