Bacula Enterprise's Oracle backup and recovery solution is designed to enable easy and simple backup and recovery of data and configurations stored in Oracle 10g and 11g servers.
The Oracle backup solutions from Bacula provide high-end capabilities for configuration, administration and operation, such as being able to easily restore your Oracle database to any point in time, or to filter out objects during database backup and recovery operations.
Enjoy enterprise performance and granularity. Oracle database backup also offers a mechanism for protection, preservation and transfer of data, which together constitute variables of vital importance for the protection of information in organizations.
Bacula'a Oracle backup and recovery solution benefits
This Oracle backup and recovery tool is also designed to backup essential bits of configuration information such as parameters, datafiles and control files, server parameters, redo logs archives,etc. according to best practices. Additionally, it allows automatic restores from the database catalog.
The Oracle database backup tools are compatible with Oracle backup database versions 10g and 11g.
Oracle backup software key benefits
Bacula's Oracle backup solutions allow you to choose from a wide variety of different backup options. Popular functionalities such as being able to restore your Oracle database to any point in time, or being able to filter objects during Oracle database backup or restore will probably guide which techniques and options you decide use. Many users combine Dump and RMAN PITR techniques for the same cluster.
RMAN also allows you to use advanced Oracle database backup techniques where you can send the data over the Bacula Enterprise SBT interface to tape for example, and at the same time, on disk.
Types of Oracle backups – choosing Between Dump and RMAN
| Feature | Dump | RMAN | RMAN SBT |
| Can directly restore a single object (table, schema, etc.) | Yes | No | No |
| Can directly restore a singlefile (index, db, tbs, etc.) | No | Yes | Yes |
| Backup Speed | Low | High | High |
| Restore Speed | Low | High | High* |
| Backup Size | Small | Big | Big |
| Size on local disk during backup | Nil | Entire backup | Nil |
| Size on local disk during restore | Nil | Entire restore | Objects needed |
| Can restore Oracle DB to any point in time | No | Yes | Yes |
| Incremental/Differential Backup Support | No | Yes | Yes |
| Can restore in parallel | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Online Backup | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Consistent Backup | Yes | Yes | Yes |
* When using RMAN SBT interface, the restore speed depends on various elements such as the type of media (tape or disk), the network speed, the availability of the storage daemon device, etc. In Bacula Enterprise Edition, the storage daemon device is able to use the same disk volume for multiple concurrent restores, so it is possible to use concurrent jobs for Oracle backup and recovery.
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