Introducing Arcserve Backup Agents and Options › Using Agents › Agent for Oracle › Introducing the Agent for Oracle › Introduction

Introduction

Among the agents Arcserve Backup offers is the Arcserve Backup Agent for Oracle. This agent lets you:

• Manage backups remotely
• Back up tablespaces belonging to online databases by taking advantage of the Oracle backup features.
• Restore a complete database or individual database objects such as a tablespace, data files, control files, archive log, or parameter file.
• Schedule your backups.
• Back up to a wide array of media storage devices.

The agent handles all communications between the Arcserve Backup and the Oracle database during backup and restore jobs, including preparing, retrieving, and processing the data that is sent back and forth between the Oracle database and Arcserve Backup.