Backing up an Oracle Data Guard environment

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Executive Summary
This whitepaper describes how to use HP Open View Storage Data Protector A.05.50 to backup an
Oracle Data Guard environment.
The major benefit of Oracle Data Guard from a backup administrator perspective is the offload of
production database backups to a standby database in order to minimize the impact of running backups
to the production system. In case media recovery will be required on the Production site these backups can
be used to directly restore and recover the production system.
While HP Open View Storage Data Protector A.05.50 is provided with an interface to backup an Oracle
database online the backup and restore of Oracle Data Guard requires additional configuration steps,
which are explained in the paper on typical scenarios.