Backup oracle database windows

Select the time you want to restore to and the databases you want to restore. In order for the restore to work you have to manually shutdown the Oracle database before restore and keep the Oracle VSS writer service running , but it will start up automatically after restore. If you do not do this, the Oracle component will not report any restore errors except via the Windows event log.

Community Issue tracker Wiki Forums. Development Developer blog Code repository backend Code repository tray icon License. The exp command is the dump backup command provided by Oracle.

Forfiles is a file search command of windows. It searches for files generated in the backup and DMP suffixes for three days, and then performs the delete operation. Windows scheduled tasks automatically execute batch files every day 3.

Keep the files of the last three days and automatically delete the backup files of the previous date. Check for "workload. If the file is already present, then just edit the fields so that it matches the following content. Otherwise, the following command will create the file and populate the contents:. In the Azure portal, go to your resource group rg-oracle and click on your Virtual Machine vmoracle19c. On the Backup blade, create a new Recovery Services Vault in the resource group rg-oracle with the name myVault.

For Choose backup policy , use new DailyPolicy. If you want to change the backup frequency or retention range select Create a new policy instead. After you click Enable backup , the backup process doesn't start until the scheduled time expires. To set up an immediate backup, complete the next step. From the resource group page, click on your newly created Recovery Services Vault myVault. Hint: You may need to refresh the page to see it. Wait for the backup process to finish.

Note that while it only takes seconds to execute the snapshot it can take some time to transfer it to the vault, and the backup job is not completed until the transfer is finished.

For an application-consistent backup, address any errors in the log file. Trigger a backup to run now rather than waiting for the backup to trigger at the default schedule 5 AM UTC :.

You can monitor the progress of the backup job using az backup job list and az backup job show. Later in this article, you'll learn how to test the recovery process. Before you can test the recovery process, you have to remove the database files. In the Azure portal, search for the myVault Recovery Services vaults item and select it. Click the ellipsis on the right to bring up the menu and select File Recovery. Then, save the download.

A password is generated to the run the script. Copy the password to a file for use later. The following example shows how you to use a secure copy scp command to move the file to the VM.

You also can copy the contents to the clipboard, and then paste the contents in a new file that is set up on the VM. In the following example, ensure that you update the IP address and folder values. The values must map to the folder where the file is saved. To list recovery points for your VM, use az backup recovery point list.

In this example, we select the most recent recovery point for the VM named vmoracle19c that's protected in the Recovery Services Vault called myVault:. To obtain the script that connects, or mounts, the recovery point to your VM, use az backup restore files mount-rp.

The following example obtains the script for the VM named vmoracle19c that's protected in the Recovery Services Vault called myVault. Replace myRecoveryPointName with the name of the recovery point that you obtained in the preceding command:. Now execute the script to restore the backup. You will be asked to supply the password generated in Azure portal. The following example shows what you should see after you run the preceding script. When you're prompted to continue, enter Y.

To exit, enter q , and then search for the mounted volumes. To create a list of the added volumes, at a command prompt, enter df -h. The restored database control file was a snapshot, along with the rest of the database, and the SCN stored within it is from the point-in-time of the snapshot.

There may be transactions recorded after this point and we want to recover to the point-in-time of the last transaction committed to the database. When recovery completes successfully you will see the message Media recovery complete. In this situation you may see messages similar to these:. Note that if the current online redo log has been lost or corrupted and cannot be used, you may cancel recovery at this point.

To correct this you can identify which is the current online log that has not been archived, and supply the fully qualified filename to the prompt. Switch back to the ssh session running the recover command, input the logfile information and press return:. You should see the logfile is applied and recovery completes.

RESETLOGS creates a new incarnation of the database by resetting the redo history back to the beginning, because there is no way to determine how much of the previous database incarnation was skipped in the recovery. When all databases on the VM have been successfully recovered you may unmount the restore point.

This can be done on the VM using the unmount command or in Azure portal from the File Recovery blade. You can also unmount the recovery volumes by running the python script again with the -clean option. Instead of restoring the deleted files from the Recovery Services vaults, you can restore the entire VM. In the Azure portal, go to the vmoracle19c Virtual Machine, and then select Stop.

When the Virtual Machine is no longer running, select Delete and then Yes.