Backup App Cluster

[adam900331]

Hy!

Is the best practise to backup app cluster members with Veeam Agent? I configured a protection group and added the cluster object name. Can I achive this another way for example, added manually the cluster members without cluster name?

Thanks.

[Andreas Neufert]

What kind of Application Cluster?

[adam900331]

Oracle App Cluster.

[Andreas Neufert]

RAC clusters can be backed up with our Veeam Plug-in for Oracle RMAN, which is basically a Oracle SBT plug-in.
https://helpcenter.veeam.com/docs/backu ... ml?ver=120
v12 has as well the option to rollout the plug-in and manage the backup in a central job.
https://helpcenter.veeam.com/docs/backu ... ml?ver=120

The installation itself can be protected with image level backup of the VM backup or Veeam Agent based backup.

[adam900331]

Yes, we use RMAN plugin, but only want to create image-level backup for cluster members (two server). Can I added the member servers separetally to the protection group? Or added the cluster object?

[Andreas Neufert]

Protection Group => Only installation of the plug-ins and Agents.

If you use v12 already and use the protection group for distributing the plug-in, then you can just enable the Agent checkbox and it will install the agents.

If you do not have used protection groups yet, please add the server separately to a protection group (maybe new one) and in case of v12 only install the Agent (not the plug-in) for now.
Then create a managed agent backup job to do image level backups. I would deactivate the inguest processing for Oracle then or at least set it to "copy only" without Archive Log backups as you do this with the plug-ins.