Pre-requisites for Archive-to-Cloud

The following prerequisites must be met before starting to use cloud storage with the Recovery Appliance.

• Protected database(s) should already be enrolled and backups taken to the Recovery Appliance.

  This is covered in Configuring Recovery Appliance for Protected Database Access. Brief review:

  • Create a virtual private catalog user.

  • Enroll the protected database.

  • Update the properties for the protected database.

• The Recovery Appliance has been registered and enrolled at an Oracle Key Vault.

  OKV is not required if space-efficient encrypted backups is enabled, the log destination to Recovery Appliance is set for encryption enabled, and SECURE_MODE is enabled in the protection policy. Refer to Configuring Encrypted SBT for more information.

• Archive-to-cloud features are only supported on small endian databases. Only Linux and Windows.

  Big endian databases that attempt to archive-to-cloud cause error ORA-64800: unable to create encrypted backup for big endian platform, because the operation cannot create encrypted backup for big endian platforms.