Verify that your environment meets the system requirements for Amazon RDS for Oracle.
Before Configuring Backups, Verify Backup Gateway Region and Access to the Database
Before configuring backups of the database, do the following:
Note
For Oracle RDS Export-based backups, Commvault Cloud supports only AWS Linux Backup Gateways.
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Verify that the AWS backup gateway is deployed in the same region and VPC as the AWS database.
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Verify that the AWS backup gateway can access the AWS databases. For more information, go to Automatically connecting an EC2 instance and an RDS database on the Amazon RDS website.
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See the following:
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For instructions to create an AWS backup gateway, which is part of configuring backups, see the "Configuring Backups" page for the database, under AWS Cloud Databases. For example, Configuring Backups for Amazon DocumentDB Instances.
Access Nodes
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The following packages are required on access nodes:
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Virtual server agent
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Oracle agent
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Cloud apps
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Access nodes that you run backup and restore operations on must have one of the following operating systems:
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Amazon Linux 2023 AMI |
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CentOS 8.x, 7.x |
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.x, 7.x |
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The Oracle RDS endpoint and port must be reachable from the EC2 access node.
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The Amazon RDS Oracle instance must be running in the ARCHIVELOG mode.
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If you have network configuration enabled on the access nodes, before you deploy the Linux proxy, configure a firewall on the cloud proxy and on-premises.
Supported Oracle Versions
- Oracle 19c
Oracle User Privileges
The RDS for Oracle user must be one of the following:
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The master user
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A database user with DBA privileges