In this case you need to enable oracle ‘backup mode’ in the ‘pre-freeze-script’ and disable it in ‘post-thaw-script’. You also need to enable ‘VMware tools quiescence’ option in Veeam Backup Job to make them work. You can put anything in these scripts as long as you assure that the syntax is correct and they are executable. The ‘pre’ script will be executed before creating a vm snapshot, and the ‘post’ script just after the snapshot creation. The scripts should be located in /usr/sbin. To use this method you create ‘pre-freeze-script’ and ‘post-thaw-script’ scripts inside your virtual machine.
This way, Oracle will ‘freeze’ the datafiles to protect them from inconsistencies, but the database will be still available for clients. Switch the database to ‘hot backup mode’ for the time of the snapshot creation My own test proved that Oracle DB starts up correctly after a restore from such backup.Ģ. There are lots of sources (including Veeam itself and veeam community board members) saying that this type of backup is fully recoverable nad you should not worry that your database will be corrupted. In this case your Oracle database will be in ‘crash consistent’ state. Configure a regular backup job just like for any other Linux vm In each case you have at least two backup methods to choose from:ġ. In different words, you have to decide if you can shut the database down for the time of snapshot creation (typically a few seconds) or not. When it comes to linux you have to take care of the database quiescing yourself.įirst of all, you to choose between hot and cold backup.
The configuration is just two click in Veeam B&R console.
Veeam backup for linux windows#
On Windows systems Veeam uses VSS to communicate with Oracle database to notify it that a backup is coming. During Veeam Backup & Replication deployment for VMware environment I’ve come to the topic of backing up Oracle databases (and databases in general) on vms running Linux.
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