Oracle Secure Backup is a centralized tape backup management solution providing heterogeneous data protection in distributed UNIX, Linux, Windows, and Network Attached Storage (NAS) Environments.
By protecting the file system and Oracle Database data, Oracle Secure Backup provides a complete tape backup solution for your IT environment. Oracle Secure Backup is tightly integrated with RMAN to provide the media management layer for RMAN, supporting releases since Oracle9i. With optimized integration points, Oracle Secure Backup and RMAN provide the fastest and most efficient tape backup capability for Oracle Database.
You can back up distributed servers to local and remote tape devices from a central Oracle Secure Backup administrative server using backup policies, calendar-based scheduling for lights out operations, or on-demand backup for immediate requirements. With its highly scalable client/server architecture, Oracle Secure Backup provides local and remote data protection, using Secure Sockets layer (SSL) for secure intradomain communication and two-way server authentication.
Oracle Secure Backup provides the following benefits:
- Optimized tape backup for Oracle Database by backing up only the currently used blocks and increasing backup performance by 10% to 25%
- Policy-based management that allows backup administrators to exercise precise control over the backup domain
- Dynamic drive sharing for increased tape resource use
- Heterogeneous Storage Area Network (SAN) support allowing NAS, UNIX, Windows, and Linux to share tape drives and media
- File system backup at the file, directory, file system or raw partition level with full, incremental, and offsite backup scheduling
- Integration with Oracle Enterprise Manager, providing an intuitive, familiar interface
- Backup encryption to tape
- Broad tape-device support for new and legacy tape devices in SAN and SCSI environments
- Network Data Management Protocol (NDMP) support for highly efficient backup of NAS files
- Scalable, low-cost licensing model that reduces IT costs and operational considerations
