By default, consistency group (CG) backups are created. If you want to create volume based backups, you should set the value of EnableOracleNdvVolumeBasedBackup to true in the web.config file.

Steps

In the left navigation pane, click Resources, and then select the Oracle Database plug-in from the list.
In the Resources page, select Application Volume from the View list.
Click , and then select the host name and the database type to filter the resources.

You can then click to close the filter pane.
Select the application volume that you want to back up.

The Application volume-Protect page is displayed.

In the Resource page, perform the following actions:

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Use custom name format for Snapshot copy	Select this check box, and then enter a custom name format that you want to use for the Snapshot copy name. For example, customtext_policy_hostname or resource_hostname. By default, a timestamp is appended to the Snapshot copy name.
Exclude archive log destinations from backup	Specify the destinations of the archive log files that you do not want to back up.

For this field…

Do this…

Use custom name format for Snapshot copy

Select this check box, and then enter a custom name format that you want to use for the Snapshot copy name.

For example, customtext_policy_hostname or resource_hostname. By default, a timestamp is appended to the Snapshot copy name.

Exclude archive log destinations from backup

Specify the destinations of the archive log files that you do not want to back up.

In the Policies page, perform the following steps:
1. Select one or more policies from the drop-down list.
  
  You can also create a policy by clicking .
  
  In the Configure schedules for selected policies section, the selected policies are listed.
2. Click in the Configure Schedules column for the policy for which you want to configure a schedule.
3. In the Add schedules for policy policy_name window, configure the schedule, and then click OK.
  
  policy_name is the name of the policy that you have selected.
  
  The configured schedules are listed in the Applied Schedules column.
In the Notification page, from the Email preference drop-down list, select the scenarios in which you want to send the emails.

You must also specify the sender and receiver email addresses, and the subject of the email. If you want to attach the report of the backup operation performed on the resource, and then select Attach Job Report.

For email notification, you must have specified the SMTP server details using the either the GUI or the PowerShell command Set-SmSmtpServer.
Review the summary, and then click Finish.

The application volume topology page is displayed.
Click Back up Now.
In the Backup page, perform the following steps:
1. If you have applied multiple policies to the resource, from the Policy drop-down list, select the policy that you want to use for backup.
2. Click Backup.
Monitor the operation progress by clicking Monitor > Jobs.