1. Administrator's Guide
  2. Managing Recovery Appliance
  3. Recovery Appliance Workflow
  4. Setup and Configuration for Recovery Appliance

Setup and Configuration for Recovery Appliance

You must complete the following general tasks:

Task 1: Create Cloud Control user accounts

As explained in "Separation of Duties in Recovery Appliance Administration", a Recovery Appliance environment may require multiple administrative accounts. In this step, create the Cloud Control user accounts necessary for your environment.

Note:

These are application-level user accounts, not database user accounts.

See Also:

Cloud Control help to learn how to create Enterprise Manager user accounts

Task 2: Create a protection policy for each database tier

For each tier of protected databases, create a separate protection policy. "Basic Tasks for Managing Protection Policies" describes these tasks.

  1. Optionally, if your Recovery Appliance has access to a backup polling location, then create a backup polling policy.

    Note:

    If you are using Cloud Control, then this step is included in the protection policy configuration. When using DBMS_RA, you must run a separate procedure (CREATE_POLLING_POLICY).

    "Creating a Backup Polling Policy (Command-Line Only)" describes this task.

  2. Create a protection policy for a specific database tier.

    "Creating a Protection Policy" describes this task.

Task 3: Configure access on Recovery Appliance for protected databases

Create a virtual private catalog owner in the Recovery Appliance metadata database, add protected database metadata, and grant the catalog owner access to protected databases. Perform all of these steps on the Recovery Appliance, as explained in "Basic Tasks for Configuring Protected Database Access".

Task 4: Configure protected databases (for DBAs)

Protected database administrators perform this task, which does not involve running DBMS_RA procedures on Recovery Appliance. Client-side configuration includes the following subtasks:

  1. Configuring backup and recovery settings, including real-time redo transport

  2. Enabling access to the Recovery Appliance, which involves installing the Recovery Appliance Backup Module and authenticating the Recovery Appliance user account

  3. Testing backup and restore operations

See Zero Data Loss Recovery Appliance Protected Database Configuration Guide to learn how to configure protected databases.

Task 5: Migrate legacy backups to Recovery Appliance (for DBAs)

DBAs for protected databases perform this task, which does not involve running DBMS_RA procedures on Recovery Appliance. Migration includes importing legacy recovery catalogs into the Recovery Appliance catalog, and enabling the Recovery Appliance to access physical backups on disk or tape.

See Zero Data Loss Recovery Appliance Protected Database Configuration Guide to learn how to migrate legacy backups.

Task 6: Create copy-to-tape schedules to meet recovery requirements

If you employ tape devices in your environment, then you must create SBT attribute sets, schedule tape jobs, monitor tape backup status, and so on. You perform all of these steps on the Recovery Appliance, as explained in "Basic Tasks for Copying Backups to Tape with Recovery Appliance".

Task 7: Configure Recovery Appliance replication

This task involves configuring both the upstream Recovery Appliance and the downstream Recovery Appliance, and performing some steps on the protected database hosts.