Backup a Single Oracle Database in an Application Backup Policy?

[andreas_1985]

Hello,

I have approximately 80 Oracle servers. We use the Veeam plugin for Oracle RMAN to back up the databases in managed mode. The 80 databases are distributed across 5 application backup policies. Now for my problem: Before maintenance work on an Oracle server, our DBAs like to perform a backup. However, with Veeam, I can only initiate a backup of the entire application backup policy. Is there a way to initiate an RMAN backup of a single Oracle server?

This is possible in standalone mode via the RMAN CLI:

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RUN {
BACKUP DATABASE PLUS ARCHIVELOG;

}
EXIT;

I suspect this isn't supported in Managed Mode, as I'm getting the following error message:

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RMAN-00571: =============================================================
RMAN-00569: =============== ERROR MESSAGE STACK FOLLOWS ===============
RMAN-00571: =============================================================
RMAN-03002: failure of backup plus archivelog command at 03/25/2026 10:47:10
ORA-19506: failed to create sequential file, name="af28c18b-aa0e-4809-9a93-fbe5dbe63dd0/RMAN_2610434210_ISP_20260325_ug4jsj5d_118736_1_1.vab", parms=""
ORA-27028: skgfqcre: sbtbackup returned error
ORA-19511: non RMAN, but media manager or vendor specific failure, error text:

Write operations are restricted

--tr:Unable to perform SbtBackup

--tr:Unable to execute command sbtBackup

--tr:Unable to dispatch plugin

Do you have any ideas on how I could solve my problem?

Thanks and best regards,

Andreas

[PetrM]

Hi Andreas,

This scenario is supported, and it's difficult to determine what may be causing this error without proper troubleshooting. Please open a support case and share the support case ID for our reference.

In the meantime, please review the examples on this page and consider explicitly allocating a channel.

Thanks!

[andreas_1985]

Hi Petr,

Thanks for pointing me in the right direction. Allocating the channels was the solution:

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RUN {
    ALLOCATE CHANNEL ch1 DEVICE TYPE SBT_TAPE
    PARMS 'SBT_LIBRARY=/opt/veeam/VeeamPluginforOracleRMAN/libOracleRMANPlugin.so' FORMAT 'af28c18b-aa0e-4809-9a93-fbe5dbe63dd0/RMAN_%I_%d_%T_%U.vab';
    BACKUP DATABASE;
    RELEASE CHANNEL ch1;
}

EXIT;

A note for anyone who has the same question in the future: The repository ID cannot be determined in manage mode as described in the documentation:

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cat /tmp/rman_config.txt

(this file does not exist)

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grep "received repos" /tmp/veeam_plugin_logs/oracle/OracleRMANConfigTool.log | tail

(resturns nothing)

The following command gave me the repository ID:

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grep "repositoryId" /tmp/veeam_plugin_logs/oracle/RMANPluginManager.log | tail -1

Best regards,
Andreas