Veritas NetBackup™ Copilot™ for Oracle Configuration Guide

Oracle Accelerator backup details

In an Oracle accelerator backup configuration, an initial full backup is required and subsequent backups consist of only changed blocks. The changed blocks are merged with the full image to protect a new full backup. Once the merge process is completed, a snapshot is created to produce a NetBackup backup image for restore. Storage Lifecycle Policies (SLPs) are used for replication for data protection. All images on the share and in NetBackup are available in RMAN or NetBackup for restore. The following graphic illustrates how an Oracle accelerator backup works: