Asking about Veeam Explorer For Oracle

[alleluia]

Dear All,
My company purchase Veeam enterprise plus license & i set up backup job for all VM . it's running normally .
But i want to set up backup only oracle database more with Veeam Explorer for oracle,but i can not start it & i can not search that icon in start menu .

When i open Veeam Explorer For Oracle , display notification : StandAlone Mode is not supported in this version.
I'm newbie about veeam so please help .
Thank you so much

[Andreas Neufert]

There are 2 different backup methods.
Image level backup with VM and Agent backup (+ optional archive log backup).
Veeam Plug-in for Oracle RMAN

Explorers are only used for restore. You would need an Image Level Backup with Oracle guest processing enabled to be able to restore here or have an RMAN backup that backup to the plug-in.

Please read:
RMAN:
https://helpcenter.veeam.com/docs/backu ... ml?ver=100
Image Level VM:
https://helpcenter.veeam.com/docs/backu ... ml?ver=100
Image level Agents (here Linux as example):
https://helpcenter.veeam.com/docs/agent ... tml?ver=40
Explorer:
https://helpcenter.veeam.com/docs/backu ... ml?ver=100

[alleluia]

Hello Andreas Neufert,
That mean i must to use RMAN Plugin to backup oracle database ?

[Andreas Neufert]

You have 2 options:
The image level backup or the RMAN Plugin.

I think you need to do image level backups anyway to protect the Oracle Installation and to prepare for disaster.
It is a very good way for you.

If you are familar with RMAN you can use RMAN with our Plug-ins.