The Unitrends agent for Oracle extends the Unitrends solution for the protection of Oracle on Windows, Linux, and Solaris databases and database objects. Unitrends Oracle agent is a component of the Windows, Linux, and Solaris core agents. It is fully integrated into the backup system, from which all configuration and management tasks are performed. The backup system automatically detects when the protection software has been installed on a Windows, Linux, or Solaris server running Oracle Database, and displays an Oracle icon under the server in the Navigation pane.
The agent leverages Oracle’s Recovery Manager (RMAN) utility to perform backup and recovery operations to ensure a consistent database snapshot is captured, performing standard Oracle Database backup operations, such as saving redo logs and quiescing buffers. The agent invokes commands on the Oracle client and supplies RMAN a Samba share target (/backups/rae/<client_name>/<instance>) so that jobs save directly to the backup system storage.
Note: A file-level backup of the Oracle client does capture the Oracle Database data, but the database structure is likely to be inconsistent since only data that has been flushed to disk is included. Complete an Oracle application backup to ensure database consistency.