Supported Oracle database configurations for backups

SnapCenter supports backup of different Oracle database configurations.

Oracle Standalone
Oracle Real Application Clusters (RAC)
Oracle Standalone Legacy
Oracle Standalone Container Database (CDB)
Oracle Data Guard standby
You can create only offline (mount or shutdown) backups of Data Guard standby databases.
Oracle Active Data Guard standby
You can create data only online backups of Active Data Guard standby databases.
Oracle database on Automatic Storage Management (ASM)
You can perform backup, restore, and clone operations on Oracle databases on ASM, with or without ASMLib. However, ASM on Raw device mapping (RDM) and virtual machine disk (VMDK) is not supported.

Note: Oracle ASM Filter Driver (ASMFD), PDB migration, and PDB cloning are not supported.

For the latest information about supported versions, see the NetApp Interoperability Matrix Tool (IMT).

Note: Before creating a backup of Data Guard standby or Active Data Guard standby database, the managed recovery process (MRP) is stopped and once the backup is created, MRP is started.