Learn About Deploying Oracle Secure Backup and NetBackup on Compute Cloud@Customer
Cloud computing has revolutionized the way businesses and individuals access, store, and process data. The next evolutionary step in cloud computing is the Oracle Compute Cloud@Customer. Compute Cloud@Customer combines the flexibility of cloud services with the privacy and control of on-premises infrastructure.
Oracle Compute Cloud@Customer is a rack-scale, edge cloud infrastructure resource that brings next-generation cloud services to the Edge, making it the ideal cloud infrastructure to modernize legacy applications and build cloud native applications. Identical APIs and management tools, such as the cloud, help customers create a consistent development experience across environments while retaining complete control over data to meet evolving data residency and latency requirements. A fully managed service, Compute Cloud@Customer enables workload consolidation and operations streamlining at a low cost and flexible consumption model similar to the public cloud.
Given the complexity and mission critical gravity of your corporate cloud environment, a powerful, comprehensive backup strategy is essential. OSB 18.1 is a unified backup solution that addresses the complexities of distributed environments consisting of both database and file system data, allowing you to manage data protection of heterogeneous servers spread across data centers and remote offices, based on private, hybrid or public clouds.
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OSB 18.1 architecture includes an administration server and a media server. These can be discrete servers external to the Compute Cloud@Customer, or on instance(s) in the Compute Cloud@Customer. OSB 18.1 architecture includes client agents that run in each operating system that are to be backed up by OSB. The administration and media servers can also be deployed into an Oracle Cloud Infrastructure instance.
Data backed up from a client is relayed to the media server, where it can be stored on local disk, Compute Cloud@Customer file system shares, external NAS file system shares or NAS object store, or in object store in OCI. In the example in this playbook, the administrative server will also act as the media server and will reside in an instance running in Compute Cloud@Customer. The clients will be other instances in Compute Cloud@Customer.
OSB 18.1 provides file-level backup of files residing on Oracle Linux, Solaris, RHEL, and SuSE Linux as well as Microsoft Windows, and some versions of AIX and HP-UX operating systems. File backups are cataloged, and the catalog can be queried to find versions and locations of the backup files. You can use either a web interface or a command-line interface for configuration, management of backups, and for initiating backups or restores. A scheduler is provided, with which you can design multiple schedules with multiple backup destinations. You can recover files to replace the original file or you can place the restored file in a new file location. You can restore individual files or entire directories. OSB 18.1 can also schedule and manage Oracle Database backup and restore by integrating with RMAN. Consult OSB 18.1 documentation for details (see "Explore More", elsewhere in this playbook, for appropriate links).
This diagram illustrates an implementation of Oracle Secure backup on Compute Cloud@Customer:
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Veritas NetBackup is a backup and recovery software suite designed for enterprise users. As an enterprise backup product, Veritas NetBackup supports major databases such as Oracle and Microsoft SQL, as well as Microsoft Windows, Unix and Linux operating systems.
NetBackup backs up and restores files, directories and raw partitions on a server. A server protected by NetBackup is known as a NetBackup client. NetBackup software installs on a server known as a media server. During backups, the client sends data across the network to a NetBackup media server, which selects the correct storage media as a backup target.
As an enterprise backup product, NetBackup supports major databases such as Oracle and Microsoft SQL, as well as Microsoft Windows, Unix and Linux operating systems. It backs up data to disk, tape and public clouds, and protects popular VMware and Microsoft Hyper-V hypervisors. Key features offered by NetBackup include data de-duplication, Replication and snapshot services.