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      • Installation and Setup for UNIX for Clustered Data ONTAP
        • Product overview
        • Preparing for deployment
        • Configuring databases
        • Setting up SnapManager
        • Preparing storage systems for SnapMirror and SnapVault replication
        • Backing up and verifying your databases
      • Installation and Setup for UNIX for Data ONTAP Operating in 7-mode
        • Product overview
        • Preparing for deployment
        • Configuring databases
        • Setting up SnapManager
        • Backing up and verifying your databases
      • Administration for UNIX
        • Product overview
          • Recommended general database layouts and storage configurations
            • Support for ASM databases without ASMLib
              • Deploying and running the scripts
          • Limitations when working with SnapManager
            • Limitations related to Oracle Database
        • Recommended general database layouts and storage configurations
          • Support for ASM databases without ASMLib
            • Deploying and running the scripts
        • Limitations when working with SnapManager
          • Limitations related to Oracle Database
        • Upgrading SnapManager
          • Post-upgrade tasks
          • Upgrading SnapManager hosts by using rolling upgrade
            • What a rollback is
        • Configuring SnapManager
          • SnapManager configuration parameters
        • Security and credential management
          • About role-based access control
          • Clearing user credentials for all hosts, repositories, and profiles
          • Deleting credentials for individual resources
        • Managing profiles for efficient backups
        • Backing up databases
          • What full and partial backups are
          • Creating database backups
          • What AutoSupport is
          • Changing the backup retention policy
        • Scheduling database backups
        • Restoring database backups
          • What database restore is
            • Guidelines for when you can use fast restore
          • Restore files from an alternate location
            • Restore backups from an alternate location overview
        • Cloning database backup
          • Creating clone specifications
          • Considerations for cloning a database to an alternate host
          • Splitting a clone
        • Introduction to data protection in SnapManager
          • Configuring and enabling policy-driven data protection
          • Considerations for performing data protection
          • Restoring protected backups from secondary storage
        • SnapManager for Oracle uses Protection Manager to protect a database backup
          • Protected backup configuration and execution
          • Database restoration from backup
        • Performing management operations
        • Configuring an email notification
          • Configuring email notification for a new profile
          • Configuring email notification for an existing profile
        • Creating task specification file and scripts for SnapManager operations
          • Creating pretask, post-task, and policy scripts
        • Updating storage system name and target database host name associated with a profile
        • Maintaining history of SnapManager operations
        • SnapManager for Oracle command reference
        • Troubleshooting SnapManager
          • Dump files
      • Installation and Setup for Windows
        • What SnapManagerfor Oracle is
          • Advantages of using SnapManager
          • What the SnapManager for Oracle architecture is
        • SnapManager for Oracle deployment considerations
          • Requirements for running SnapManager
          • Database version support and configuration overview
        • Installing SnapManager for Oracle
          • Preparing to install SnapManager for Oracle
        • Upgrading SnapManager
          • Post-upgrade tasks
          • Upgrading SnapManager hosts by using rolling upgrade
            • What a rollback is
        • Configuring SnapManager
          • SnapManager configuration parameters
        • Starting SnapManagerfor Oracle
          • Accessing SnapManager
            • Starting the SnapManager host server
          • Verifying the environment
          • Creating repositories
        • Security and credential management
          • Clearing user credentials for all hosts, repositories, and profiles
          • Deleting credentials for individual resources
        • Managing profiles for efficient backups
        • Backing up databases
          • What full and partial backups are
          • Creating database backups
          • What AutoSupport is
          • Changing the backup retention policy
        • Scheduling database backups
        • Restoring database backups
          • What database restore is
          • Restore files from an alternate location
            • Restore backups from an alternate location overview
        • Cloning database backup
          • Creating clone specifications
          • Considerations for cloning a database to an alternate host
        • Introduction to data protection in SnapManager
          • Considerations for performing data protection
          • Protecting database backups by using postscripts
            • Creating or updating the post scripts
              • Creating post-processing, task-specification files
        • Performing management operations
        • Configuring an email notification
          • Configuring email notification for a new profile
          • Configuring email notification for an existing profile
        • Creating task specification file and scripts for SnapManager operations
          • Creating pretask, post-task, and policy scripts
        • Updating storage system name and target database host name associated with a profile
        • Maintaining history of SnapManager operations
        • SnapManager for Oracle command reference
        • Troubleshooting SnapManager
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    • Installation and Setup for UNIX for Clustered Data ONTAP
      • Product overview
        • SnapManager architecture
      • Deployment workflow
      • Preparing for deployment
        • SnapManager licensing
        • Supported configurations
        • Supported storage types
        • UNIX host requirements
      • Configuring databases
        • Configuring the target database
        • Creating an Oracle database user for the target database
        • Creating the repository database instance
        • Creating an Oracle user for the repository database instance
        • Verifying the Oracle listener configuration
      • Installing SnapManager
      • Setting up SnapManager
        • Starting the SnapManager server
        • Accessing the SnapManager user interface
        • Configuring the SnapManager repository
      • Preparing storage systems for SnapMirror and SnapVault replication
        • Understanding the differences between SnapMirror and SnapVault
        • Preparing storage systems for SnapMirror replication
        • Preparing storage systems for SnapVault replication
      • Backing up and verifying your databases
        • SnapManager backup overview
        • Defining a backup strategy
        • Creating a profile for your database
        • Backing up your database
        • Verifying database backups
        • Scheduling recurring backups
      • Where to go next
    • Installation and Setup for UNIX for Data ONTAP Operating in 7-mode
      • Product overview
        • SnapManager architecture
      • Deployment workflow
      • Preparing for deployment
        • SnapManager licensing
        • Supported configurations
        • Supported storage types
        • UNIX host requirements
      • Configuring databases
        • Configuring the target database
        • Creating an Oracle database user for the target database
        • Creating the repository database instance
        • Creating an Oracle user for the repository database instance
        • Verifying the Oracle listener configuration
      • Installing SnapManager
      • Setting up SnapManager
        • Starting the SnapManager server
        • Accessing the SnapManager user interface
        • Configuring the SnapManager repository
      • Backing up and verifying your databases
        • SnapManager backup overview
        • Defining a backup strategy
        • Creating a profile for your database
        • Backing up your database
        • Verifying database backups
        • Scheduling recurring backups
      • Where to go next
    • Administration for UNIX
      • Product overview
        • Create backups using Snapshot copies
        • Why you should prune archive log files
        • Archive log consolidation
        • Full or partial restoration of databases
        • Verify backup status
        • Database backup clones
        • Track details and produce reports
        • What repositories are
        • What profiles are
        • What SnapManager operation states are
        • How SnapManager maintains security
        • Accessing and printing online Help
        • Recommended general database layouts and storage configurations
          • Defining the database home with the oratab file
          • Requirements for using RAC databases with SnapManager
          • Requirements for using ASM databases with SnapManager
          • Supported partition devices
          • Support for ASMLib
          • Support for ASM databases without ASMLib
            • Supported scripts
            • Limitations of using scripts to support an ASM database without ASMLib
            • Deploying and running the scripts
              • Support for Oracle RAC ASM databases without ASMLib
              • Support for Oracle 10g ASM databases without ASMLib
            • Sample scripts to support ASM databases without ASMLib
          • Requirements for using databases with NFS and SnapManager
          • Sample database volume layouts
        • Limitations when working with SnapManager
          • SnapManager limitations for clustered Data ONTAP
          • Limitations related to Oracle Database
            • Deprecated versions of Oracle database
          • Volume management restrictions
      • Create backups using Snapshot copies
      • Why you should prune archive log files
      • Archive log consolidation
      • Full or partial restoration of databases
      • Verify backup status
      • Database backup clones
      • Track details and produce reports
      • What repositories are
      • What profiles are
      • What SnapManager operation states are
      • How SnapManager maintains security
      • Accessing and printing online Help
      • Recommended general database layouts and storage configurations
        • Defining the database home with the oratab file
        • Requirements for using RAC databases with SnapManager
        • Requirements for using ASM databases with SnapManager
        • Supported partition devices
        • Support for ASMLib
        • Support for ASM databases without ASMLib
          • Supported scripts
          • Limitations of using scripts to support an ASM database without ASMLib
          • Deploying and running the scripts
            • Support for Oracle RAC ASM databases without ASMLib
            • Support for Oracle 10g ASM databases without ASMLib
          • Sample scripts to support ASM databases without ASMLib
        • Requirements for using databases with NFS and SnapManager
        • Sample database volume layouts
      • Limitations when working with SnapManager
        • SnapManager limitations for clustered Data ONTAP
        • Limitations related to Oracle Database
          • Deprecated versions of Oracle database
        • Volume management restrictions
      • Upgrading SnapManager
        • Preparing to upgrade SnapManager
        • Upgrading the SnapManager hosts
        • Post-upgrade tasks
          • Updating the existing repository
          • Modifying the backup retention class
          • Restore process types
        • Upgrading SnapManager hosts by using rolling upgrade
          • Prerequisites for performing rolling upgrades
          • Performing rolling upgrade on a single host or multiple hosts
          • What a rollback is
            • Limitations for performing a rollback
            • Prerequisites for performing a rollback
            • Performing a rollback on a single host or multiple hosts
            • Post rollback tasks
      • Configuring SnapManager
        • SnapManager configuration parameters
          • Editing the configuration parameters
        • Configuring SnapDrive for UNIX for an active/active Veritas SFRAC environment
        • Configuring SnapManager to support the Veritas SFRAC environment
        • Ensuring that ASM discovers imported disks
      • Security and credential management
        • What user authentication is
        • About role-based access control
          • Enabling role-based access control
          • Setting role-based access control capabilities and roles
        • Storing encrypted passwords for custom scripts
        • Authorizing access to the repository
        • Authorizing access to profiles
        • Viewing user credentials
        • Clearing user credentials for all hosts, repositories, and profiles
          • Setting credentials after clearing the credential cache
        • Deleting credentials for individual resources
          • Deleting user credentials for repositories
          • Deleting user credentials for hosts
          • Deleting user credentials for profiles
      • Managing profiles for efficient backups
        • Creating profiles
        • Snapshot copy naming
        • Renaming profiles
        • Changing profile passwords
        • Resetting the profile password
        • Authorizing access to profiles
        • Verifying profiles
        • Updating profiles
        • Deleting profiles
      • Backing up databases
        • What SnapManager database backups are
        • What full and partial backups are
          • Backup types and the number of Snapshot copies
          • Full online backups
          • Partial online backups
          • Examples of backup, restore, and recover operations
        • About control file and archive log file handling
        • What database backup scheduling is
        • Creating database backups
          • Pruning archive log files
          • Consolidating archive log backups
          • Scheduling archive log file pruning
          • Protecting archive log backups
        • What AutoSupport is
          • Adding storage systems operating in clustered Data ONTAP to the SnapManager server host
          • Enabling AutoSupport in SnapManager
          • Disabling AutoSupport in SnapManager
        • Verifying database backups
        • Changing the backup retention policy
          • Retaining backups forever
          • Assigning backups with a specific retention class
          • Changing the retention policy default behavior
          • Freeing or deleting retention policy exempt backups
        • Viewing a list of backups
        • Viewing backup details
        • Mounting backups
        • Unmounting backups
        • Freeing backups
        • Deleting backups
      • Scheduling database backups
        • Creating backup schedules
        • Updating a backup schedule
        • Viewing a list of scheduled operations
        • Suspending backup schedules
        • Resuming backup schedules
        • Deleting backup schedules
      • Restoring database backups
        • What database restore is
          • Guidelines for when you can use fast restore
            • Advantages and disadvantages of using fast restore
          • Fast restore eligibility checks
          • Backup recovery
          • Database state needed for the restore process
          • What restore preview plans are
        • Previewing backup restore information
        • Restoring backups by using fast restore
        • Restoring backups by using Single File SnapRestore
        • Restoring backups on primary storage
        • Performing block-level recovery with Oracle Recovery Manager (RMAN)
        • Restore files from an alternate location
          • Restore backups from an alternate location overview
            • Restoration of the data from files
            • Restoration of data from the file system
            • Restoration of the data from raw devices
          • Creating restore specifications
          • Restoring backups from an alternate location
      • Cloning database backup
        • What Cloning is
        • Cloning methods
        • Creating clone specifications
          • Cloning databases and using custom plug-in scripts
        • Cloning databases from backups
        • Cloning databases in the current state
        • Cloning database backups without resetlogs
        • Considerations for cloning a database to an alternate host
          • Cloning a database to an alternate host
        • Viewing a list of clones
        • Viewing detailed clone information
        • Deleting clones
        • Splitting a clone
          • Viewing a clone split estimate
          • Splitting a clone on primary or secondary storage
          • Viewing the status of the clone split process
          • Viewing the result of the clone split process
          • Stopping the clone split process
          • Deleting a profile
          • Destroying a profile
          • Deleting a clone split operation cycle from a repository database
      • Introduction to data protection in SnapManager
        • What protection policies are
        • What protection states are
        • What resource pools are
        • About different protection policies
        • Configuring and enabling policy-driven data protection
          • Configuring DataFabric Manager server and SnapDrive when RBAC is enabled
          • Configuring SnapDrive when RBAC is not enabled
          • Understanding enabling or disabling of data protection in profile
        • How SnapManager retains backups on the local storage
        • Considerations for performing data protection
          • Licences required for data protection in SnapManager
        • Protecting database backups on secondary or tertiary storage
        • Restoring protected backups from secondary storage
          • Restores of protected backups overview
          • Restoring backups from secondary storage
        • Cloning protected backups
      • SnapManager for Oracle uses Protection Manager to protect a database backup
        • Details of the target database
        • Primary and secondary storage configuration and topology
        • Backup schedule and retention strategy
        • Workflow summary for local and secondary database backup
        • Protected backup configuration and execution
          • Using SnapManager for Oracle to create the database profile for a local backup
          • Using Protection Manager to configure a secondary resource pool
          • Using Protection Manager to configure secondary backup schedules
          • Using Protection Manager to configure a secondary backup protection policy
          • Using SnapManager for Oracle to create the database profile and assign a protection policy
          • Using Protection Manager to provision the new dataset
          • Using SnapManager for Oracle to create a protected backup
          • Using SnapManager for Oracle to confirm backup protection
        • Database restoration from backup
          • Using SnapManager for Oracle to restore a local backup on primary storage
          • Using SnapManager for Oracle to restore backups from secondary storage
      • Performing management operations
        • Viewing a list of operations
        • Viewing operation details
        • Issuing commands from an alternate host
        • Checking the SnapManager software version
        • Stopping the SnapManager host server
        • Restarting the SnapManager UNIX host server
        • Uninstalling the software from a UNIX host
      • Configuring an email notification
        • Configuring a mail server for a repository
        • Configuring email notification for a new profile
          • Customizing the email subject for a new profile
        • Configuring email notification for an existing profile
          • Customizing the email subject for an existing profile
        • Configuring summary email notification for multiple profiles
        • Adding a new profile to summary email notifications
        • Adding an existing profile to summary email notifications
        • Disabling email notification for multiple profiles
      • Creating task specification file and scripts for SnapManager operations
        • Creating pretask, post-task, and policy scripts
          • Operations in task scripts
          • Variables available in the task scripts for the backup operation
          • Variables available in the task scripts for the restore operation
          • Variables available in the task scripts for clone operation
          • Error handling in custom scripts
        • Viewing sample plug-in scripts
        • Creating task scripts
        • Storing the task scripts
        • Verifying the installation of plug-in scripts
        • Creating a task specification file
        • Performing backup, restore, and clone operations using prescript and post-scripts
      • Updating storage system name and target database host name associated with a profile
        • Updating the storage system name associated with a profile
        • Viewing a list of storage systems associated with a profile
        • Updating the target database host name associated with a profile
      • Maintaining history of SnapManager operations
        • Configuring history for SnapManager operation
        • Viewing a list of SnapManager operation history
        • Viewing the detailed history of a specific operation associated with a profile
        • Deleting history of SnapManager operation
        • Removing history settings associated with a single profile or multiple profiles
        • Viewing SnapManager history configuration details
      • SnapManager for Oracle command reference
        • The smo_server restart command
        • The smo_server start command
        • The smo_server status command
        • The smo_server stop command
        • The smo backup create command
        • The smo backup delete command
        • The smo backup free command
        • The smo backup list command
        • The smo backup mount command
        • The smo backup restore command
        • The smo backup show command
        • The smo backup unmount command
        • The smo backup update command
        • The smo backup verify command
        • The smo clone create command
        • The smo clone delete command
        • The smo clone list command
        • The smo clone show command
        • The smo clone template command
        • The smo clone update command
        • The smo clone split-delete command
        • The smo clone split-estimate command
        • The smo clone split command
        • The smo clone split-result command
        • The smo clone split-stop command
        • The smo clone split-status command
        • The smo clone detach command
        • The smo cmdfile command
        • The smo credential clear command
        • The smo credential delete command
        • The smo credential list command
        • The smo credential set command
        • The smo history list command
        • The smo history operation-show command
        • The smo history purge command
        • The smo history remove command
        • The smo history set command
        • The smo history show command
        • The smo help command
        • The smo notification remove-summary-notification command
        • The smo notification update-summary-notification command
        • The smo notification set command
        • The smo operation dump command
        • The smo operation list command
        • The smo operation show command
        • The smo password reset command
        • The smo plugin check command
        • The smo profile create command
        • The smo profile delete command
        • The smo profile destroy command
        • The smo profile dump command
        • The smo profile list command
        • The smo profile show command
        • The smo profile sync command
        • The smo profile update command
        • The smo profile verify command
        • The smo protection-policy command
        • The smo repository create command
        • The smo repository delete command
        • The smo repository rollback command
        • The smo repository rollingupgrade command
        • The smo repository show command
        • The smo repository update command
        • The smo schedule create command
        • The smo schedule delete command
        • The smo schedule list command
        • The smo schedule resume command
        • The smo schedule suspend command
        • The smo schedule update command
        • The smo storage list command
        • The smo storage rename command
        • The smo system dump command
        • The smo system verify command
        • The smo version command
      • Troubleshooting SnapManager
        • Dump files
          • Creating operation-level dump files
          • Creating profile-level dump files
          • Creating system-level dump files
          • How to locate dump files
          • How to collect dump files
          • Collecting additional log information for easier debugging
        • Troubleshooting clone issues
        • Troubleshooting graphical user interface issues
        • Troubleshooting SnapDrive issues
        • Troubleshooting storage system renaming issue
        • Troubleshooting known issues
        • Mounting a FlexClone volume fails in NFS environment
        • Running multiple parallel operations fails in SnapManager
        • Unable to restore RAC database from one of the RAC nodes where the profile was not created
        • Where to go for more information
      • Error message classifications
      • Error messages
    • Installation and Setup for Windows
      • What SnapManagerfor Oracle is
        • What SnapManager for Oracle does
        • Integration with other NetApp applications and technologies
        • Advantages of using SnapManager
          • Create backups using Snapshot copies
          • Why you should prune archive log files
          • Archive log consolidation
          • Full or partial restoration of databases
          • Verify backup status
          • Database backup clones
          • Track details and produce reports
        • What the SnapManager for Oracle architecture is
          • SnapManager host
          • SnapManager graphical user and command-line interfaces
          • SnapManager repository
          • SnapDrive on SnapManager server
        • What repositories are
        • What profiles are
        • What SnapManager operation states are
        • How SnapManager maintains security
        • Accessing and printing online Help
      • SnapManager for Oracle deployment considerations
        • Requirements for running SnapManager
          • Supported host hardware
          • Supported general configurations
          • Clustered configurations
        • Database version support and configuration overview
          • General layout and configuration
          • Sample database volume layouts
        • Limitations when working with SnapManager
        • SnapManager features and Oracle technologies not supported on Windows
        • SnapManager limitations for clustered Data ONTAP
        • Limitations related to Oracle Database
        • Deprecated versions of Oracle database
      • Installing SnapManager for Oracle
        • Preparing to install SnapManager for Oracle
          • Preinstallation tasks
          • Downloading the SnapManager for Oracle installation package
        • Installing SnapManager for Oracle
      • Upgrading SnapManager
        • Preparing to upgrade SnapManager
        • Upgrading SnapManager hosts
        • Post-upgrade tasks
          • Updating the existing repository
          • Modifying the backup retention class
        • Upgrading SnapManager hosts by using rolling upgrade
          • Prerequisites for performing rolling upgrade
          • Performing rolling upgrade on a single host or multiple hosts
          • What a rollback is
            • Limitations for performing a rollback
            • Prerequisites for performing a rollback
            • Performing a rollback on a single host or multiple hosts
            • Post rollback tasks
      • Configuring SnapManager
        • SnapManager configuration parameters
          • Editing the configuration parameters
      • Starting SnapManagerfor Oracle
        • Identifying an existing database to backup
        • Verifying the Oracle listener status
        • Creating Oracle users for the repository database
        • Creating an Oracle user for the target database
        • Accessing SnapManager
          • Starting the SnapManager host server
            • Verifying the SnapManager host server status
          • Using SnapManager commands
          • Starting the SnapManager GUI
          • Downloading and starting the graphical user interface using Java Web Start
        • Verifying the environment
          • Verifying SnapDrive for Windows
        • Creating repositories
          • How to organize repositories
        • Order of performing operations
      • Security and credential management
        • What user authentication is
        • Storing encrypted passwords for custom scripts
        • Authorizing access to the repository
        • Authorizing access to profiles
        • Viewing user credentials
        • Clearing user credentials for all hosts, repositories, and profiles
          • Setting credentials after clearing the credential cache
        • Deleting credentials for individual resources
          • Deleting user credentials for repositories
          • Deleting user credentials for hosts
          • Deleting user credentials for profiles
      • Managing profiles for efficient backups
        • Creating profiles
        • Snapshot copy naming
        • Renaming profiles
        • Changing profile passwords
        • Resetting the profile password
        • Authorizing access to profiles
        • Verifying profiles
        • Updating profiles
        • Deleting profiles
      • Backing up databases
        • What SnapManager database backups are
        • What full and partial backups are
          • Backup types and the number of Snapshot copies
          • Full online backups
          • Partial online backups
          • Examples of backup, restore, and recover operations
        • About control file and archive log file handling
        • What database backup scheduling is
        • Creating database backups
          • Pruning archive log files
          • Consolidating archive log backups
          • Scheduling archive log file pruning
        • What AutoSupport is
          • Adding storage systems operating in clustered Data ONTAP to the SnapManager server host
          • Enabling AutoSupport in SnapManager
          • Disabling AutoSupport in SnapManager
        • Verifying database backups
        • Changing the backup retention policy
          • Retaining backups forever
          • Assigning backups with a specific retention class
          • Changing the retention policy default behavior
          • Freeing or deleting retention policy exempt backups
        • Viewing a list of backups
        • Viewing backup details
        • Mounting backups
        • Unmounting backups
        • Freeing backups
        • Deleting backups
      • Scheduling database backups
        • Creating backup schedules
        • Updating a backup schedule
        • Viewing a list of scheduled operations
        • Suspending backup schedules
        • Resuming backup schedules
        • Deleting backup schedules
      • Restoring database backups
        • What database restore is
          • Backup recovery
          • Database state needed for the restore process
          • What restore preview plans are
        • Previewing backup restore information
        • Restoring backups on primary storage
        • Performing block-level recovery with Oracle Recovery Manager (RMAN)
        • Restore files from an alternate location
          • Restore backups from an alternate location overview
            • Restoration of the data from files
            • Restoration of data from the file system
          • Creating restore specifications
          • Restoring backups from an alternate location
      • Cloning database backup
        • What Cloning is
        • Cloning methods
        • Creating clone specifications
          • Cloning databases and using custom plug-in scripts
        • Cloning databases from backups
        • Cloning databases in the current state
        • Cloning database backups without resetlogs
        • Considerations for cloning a database to an alternate host
          • Cloning a database to an alternate host
        • Viewing a list of clones
        • Viewing detailed clone information
        • Deleting clones
      • Introduction to data protection in SnapManager
        • How SnapManager retains backups on the local storage
        • Considerations for performing data protection
          • Licences required for data protection in SnapManager
        • Protecting database backups by using postscripts
          • Sample post-scripts
          • Creating or updating the post scripts
            • Creating post-processing, task-specification files
              • Using post-processing task specification to mirror volumes
              • Using post-processing task specification to vault qtrees
      • Performing management operations
        • Viewing a list of operations
        • Viewing operation details
        • Issuing commands from an alternate host
        • Checking the SnapManager software version
        • Stopping the SnapManager host server
        • Restarting the SnapManager host server
        • Uninstalling SnapManager
      • Configuring an email notification
        • Configuring a mail server for a repository
        • Configuring email notification for a new profile
          • Customizing the email subject for a new profile
        • Configuring email notification for an existing profile
          • Customizing the email subject for an existing profile
        • Configuring summary email notification for multiple profiles
        • Adding a new profile to summary email notifications
        • Adding an existing profile to summary email notifications
        • Disabling email notification for multiple profiles
      • Creating task specification file and scripts for SnapManager operations
        • Creating pretask, post-task, and policy scripts
          • Operations in task scripts
          • Variables available in the task scripts for the backup operation
          • Variables available in the task scripts for the restore operation
          • Variables available in the task scripts for clone operation
          • Error handling in custom scripts
        • Viewing sample plug-in scripts
        • Creating task scripts
        • Storing the task scripts
        • Verifying the installation of plug-in scripts
        • Creating a task specification file
        • Performing backup, restore, and clone operations using prescript and post-scripts
      • Updating storage system name and target database host name associated with a profile
        • Updating the storage system name associated with a profile
        • Viewing a list of storage systems associated with a profile
        • Updating the target database host name associated with a profile
      • Maintaining history of SnapManager operations
        • Configuring history for SnapManager operation
        • Viewing a list of SnapManager operation history
        • Viewing the detailed history of a specific operation associated with a profile
        • Deleting history of SnapManager operation
        • Removing history settings associated with a single profile or multiple profiles
        • Viewing SnapManager history configuration details
      • SnapManager for Oracle command reference
        • The smo_server restart command
        • The smo_server start command
        • The smo_server status command
        • The smo_server stop command
        • The smo backup create command
        • The smo backup delete command
        • The smo backup free command
        • The smo backup list command
        • The smo backup mount command
        • The smo backup restore command
        • The smo backup show command
        • The smo backup unmount command
        • The smo backup update command
        • The smo backup verify command
        • The smo clone create command
        • The smo clone delete command
        • The smo clone list command
        • The smo clone show command
        • The smo clone template command
        • The smo clone update command
        • The smo clone detach command
        • The smo cmdfile command
        • The smo credential clear command
        • The smo credential delete command
        • The smo credential list command
        • The smo credential set command
        • The smo history list command
        • The smo history operation-show command
        • The smo history purge command
        • The smo history remove command
        • The smo history set command
        • The smo history show command
        • The smo help command
        • The smo notification remove-summary-notification command
        • The smo notification update-summary-notification command
        • The smo notification set command
        • The smo operation dump command
        • The smo operation list command
        • The smo operation show command
        • The smo password reset command
        • The smo profile create command
        • The smo profile delete command
        • The smo profile dump command
        • The smo profile list command
        • The smo profile show command
        • The smo profile sync command
        • The smo profile update command
        • The smo profile verify command
        • The smo repository create command
        • The smo repository delete command
        • The smo repository rollback command
        • The smo repository rollingupgrade command
        • The smo repository show command
        • The smo repository update command
        • The smo schedule create command
        • The smo schedule delete command
        • The smo schedule list command
        • The smo schedule resume command
        • The smo schedule suspend command
        • The smo schedule update command
        • The smo storage list command
        • The smo storage rename command
        • The smo system dump command
        • The smo system verify command
        • The smo version command
      • Troubleshooting SnapManager
        • Dump files
          • Creating operation-level dump files
          • Creating profile-level dump files
          • Creating system-level dump files
          • How to locate dump files
          • How to collect dump files
          • Collecting additional log information for easier debugging
        • Troubleshooting clone issues
        • Troubleshooting graphical user interface issues
        • Troubleshooting known issues
        • Running multiple parallel operations fails in SnapManager
        • Unable to restore RAC database from one of the RAC nodes where the profile was not created
        • Where to go for more information
      • Error message classifications
      • Error messages
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    • SnapManager Oracle

    Backing up and verifying your databases

    02/05/2021

    After installing SnapManager, you can create a basic backup of your database and verify that backup to ensure it does not contain any corrupt files.

    Related information

    SnapManager backup overview

    Defining a backup strategy

    Creating a profile for your database

    Backing up your database

    Verifying database backups

    Scheduling recurring backups

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