Types of Oracle database backups supported for cloning

Oracle 11g, Oracle 12c (legacy), and Oracle 12c (CDB)

• Online data backup
• Online full backup
• Offline mount backup
• Offline shutdown backup
• Backups of Data Guard standby databases and Active Data Guard standby databases
• Online data backups, online full backups, offline mount backups, and offline shutdown backups in a Real Application Clusters (RAC) configuration
• Online data backups, online full backups, offline mount backups, and offline shutdown backups in an Automatic Storage Management (ASM) configuration
  Important: Oracle ASM configuration is not supported if user_friendly_names option in the multipath configuration file is set to yes and aliases or symbolic links are defined for the Oracle ASM disks using the udev rules file.