About Tape Backup Infrastructure

Tape backup is an optional feature. You can choose between Oracle and third-party tape systems.

Oracle’s Recovery Appliance supports the installation and configuration of Oracle tape systems. You can connect Recovery Appliance to the storage area network (SAN) in your data center for backups to an Oracle tape system.

Oracle Recommended Stack

Recovery Appliance is engineered to work with industry leading tape infrastructure components, including those described in Table 1-16.

Table 1-16 Oracle Tape System Components

Component Models Notes
Oracle Tape Libraries SL150, SL3000, SL8500 ACSLS, ACSLS Logical Libraries, FC-SCSI
Oracle Tape Drives T10000D, T10000C, LTO All interfaces supported by the recommended Oracle libraries
Automated Cartridge System Library Software (ACSLS) Automated Cartridge System Library Software (ACSLS) 8.x API, Logical Libraries
Tape Encryption Oracle Key Manager (OKM) 2.3 Recommended Key Management for enterprise key management. Operates seamlessly with Recovery Appliance

Recovery Appliance supports Oracle Secure Backup tape management software out of the box. It provides the following benefits:

Note:

Oracle Secure Backup (OSB) 19.1 desupport was announced on May 1, 2026 with premier support end date on September 30, 2027. See My Oracle Support note PNEWS3035 for more information. Please refer to Lifetime Support Policy: Oracle Technology Products for updated support timeframes.

Oracle recommends that database backups to cloud take advantage of Oracle Database Zero Data Loss Cloud Protect, which uses Oracle Zero Data Loss Autonomous Recovery Service in OCI. Cloud Protect offers an efficient incremental forever backup strategy, real-time transaction protection, logically air-gapped immutable backups, and fast, point-in-time recovery.

For customers who require database backups to Amazon S3, Oracle Database Cloud Backup for Amazon S3 may be used. This offering is similar to Oracle Secure Backup Cloud Module in that it is fully integrated with Recovery Manager (RMAN) and enables you to back up your Oracle database to Amazon S3. You can exchange your Oracle Secure Backup license for an Oracle Database Cloud Backup for Amazon S3 license on a 1:1 basis. See Oracle Database Cloud Backup for Amazon S3 for more information.

As with Oracle Secure Backup Cloud Module, Oracle Database Cloud Backup for Amazon S3 can be used free of charge on Oracle Zero Data Loss Recovery Appliance (ZDLRA) for the sole purpose of backing up data to and restoring data from S3-compatible storage devices that are in the same campus as ZDLRA.

Third-Party Tape Systems

Out of the box, Recovery Appliance supports the use of any third-party (non Oracle) media management software that is compatible with the Recovery Appliance.

Recovery Appliance allows the use of third-party media management software that offers RMAN-integrated backup module with its client software. Only the client software component of a third-party media management product for copy to tape operations may be installed on the Recovery Appliance compute servers.

Under the terms of the Recovery Appliance license, you may not install the media manager server component because only Oracle Secure Backup can back up Recovery Appliance to the tape devices directly (or via SAN) attached to the fibre channel interfaces of the compute nodes. Any non Oracle media manager software must be configured only as a network client.

Note the following: