Overview of Data Protection for Oracle

Data Protection for Oracle interfaces with the Oracle Recovery Manager (RMAN) to send backup versions of Oracle databases to the IBM® Spectrum Protect server.

Data Protection for Oracle currently supports Oracle 11g databases with the Oracle Recovery Manager. See Data Protection for Oracle installation for specific levels of supported Oracle databases.

RMAN and Data Protection for Oracle
Oracle Recovery Manager (RMAN) provides consistent and secure backup, restore, and recovery performance for Oracle databases. While the Oracle RMAN initiates a backup or restore, Data Protection for Oracle acts as the interface to the IBM Spectrum Protect server . The IBM Spectrum Protect server then applies administrator-defined storage management policies to the data. Data Protection for Oracle implements the Oracle defined Media Management application programming interface (SBTAPI) 2.0. This SBTAPI communicates with RMAN and translates Oracle commands into IBM Spectrum Protect API calls to the IBM Spectrum Protect server.
LAN-free data transfer
Data Protection for Oracle supports backup and restore operations in a LAN-free environment. This environment shifts the movement of data from the communications network to a storage area network (SAN). Data moves over the SAN to a SAN-attached storage device by the IBM Spectrum Protect Storage Agent. Running Data Protection for Oracle in a LAN-free environment avoids constraints of the network. The load on the IBM Spectrum Protect server is decreased, allowing the server to support a greater number of simultaneous connections.
Migration and coexistence with Data Protection for Oracle
The migration considerations to the new version of Data Protection for Oracle are provided.
Automated failover for data recovery
When there is an outage on the IBM Spectrum Protect™ server, Data Protection for Oracle can fail over to a secondary server for data recovery operations.