Recovery Appliance Components for Managing Tape Operations

Every database in a Recovery Appliance setup is associated with a protection policy that specifies the parameters for backup storage and recovery window goal. To manage and control tape operations, you must create a job that uses the properties defined by the selected protection policy, media manager library, and attribute set to copy backups to tape. Oracle Secure Backup and its components (media manager library and attribute sets) are preconfigured with Recovery Appliance.

Table 9-1 summarizes the roles of the Recovery Appliance objects for managing tape operations.

Table 9-1 Recovery Appliance Objects for Copying Backups to Tape

Cloud Control Object Name	Command-line Object Name	Description
Protection policy	Protection policy	Among other attributes, defines the recovery window. This recovery window is applied to all protected databases assigned to the protection policy.
Media manager library	SBT library	Describes a media management software library installed on Recovery Appliance.
Media manager attribute set	SBT attribute set	Contains a collection of attributes that control the copy operation. One attribute specifies the library to be used in the copy operation. Other attributes are optional and can include channel parameters, media management software library–specific commands, and a media pool identifier. You can define multiple attribute sets, but only one attribute set is associated with a given copy job.
Copy-to-tape job template	SBT job template	Defines the properties of backups to be copied to tape and specifies an attribute set to control the copy operation. Typically, multiple job templates are defined.

Note:

The Oracle Enterprise Manager Cloud Control (Cloud Control) object name and the command-line name in Table 9-1 refer to the same tape backup objects, with their respective interface terms.