Veeam Linux agent support for Oracle ASM?

[ARycroft]

Hi,

We are trying to use Veeam to backup an Oracle ASM environment. Is there a oradmap for when the Veeam Linux agent will support the backup of the Oracle ASM environment?

Kind regards

[HannesK]

Hello,
one of the goals of ASM is to prevent 3rd party access to data. So the answer is: "not in foreseeable timeframe".

I have a few questions around ASM:
1) are you using ASMlib or ASMfd?
2) do you use ASM for standalone machines or only for RAC clusters?

Best regards,
Hannes

[ARycroft]

Thank you for your response Hannes,

They are using ASMlib.

They use ASM in an Oracle RAC cluster environment.

It is proving quite a mission to provide a 3-2-1 (disk to disk to tape) backup solution for an Oracle ASM environment with Veeam, so any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

[HannesK]

ok, then ASM is only one piece... also RAC clusters would need to be supported.

The real request seems to be able to bring RMAN backups to tape. There is a workaround and we know that we need to improve that (no timeline available)

For foreseeable future, I would go with scale-out-repositories and capacity tier (object storage). I see, that's not what you want, but that's what's technically possible.