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. Archive log-only backup or full backup is not supported.
Oracle Active Data Guard standby
You can create data only online backups of Active Data Guard standby databases. Archive log-only backup or full backup is not supported.
Automatic Storage Management (ASM)
- ASM standalone and ASM RAC on Virtual Machine Disk (VMDK)
  Note: Among all the restore methods supported for Oracle databases, you can perform only connect-and-copy restore of ASM RAC databases on VMDK.
- ASM standalone and ASM RAC on Raw device mapping (RDM)
You can perform backup, restore, and clone operations on Oracle databases on ASM, with or without ASMLib.
Oracle ASM Filter Driver (ASMFD)

Note: PDB migration and PDB cloning operations 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.