Welcome
Oracle’s Recovery Manager (RMAN) utility is an extremely popular tool for backing up and restoring critical Oracle data, but effective reporting and analysis of backups across large numbers of databases can be challenging using the native technology.
Quest Backup Reporter for Oracle solves this and many other challenges by providing a number of capabilities in the area of Oracle RMAN backup reporting and analysis:
- Multi-database reporting – dashboard reporting across all your managed databases or deep-dive into one database.
- RMAN policy definition and policy violation reporting – checks to ensure your backup strategy is actually working.
- RMAN health check – embodies advice from the leading RMAN experts.
- Backup performance tracking – both real-time and historical.
Welcome to Quest Backup Reporter
Oracle’s Recovery Manager (RMAN) utility is an extremely popular tool for backing up and restoring critical Oracle data, but effective reporting and analysis of backups across large numbers of databases can be challenging using the native technology.
Quest Backup Reporter for Oracle solves this and many other challenges by providing a number of capabilities in the area of Oracle RMAN backup reporting and analysis:
- Multi-database reporting – dashboard reporting across all your managed databases or deep-dive into one database.
- RMAN policy definition and policy violation reporting – checks to ensure your backup strategy is actually working.
- RMAN health check – embodies advice from the leading RMAN experts.
- Backup performance tracking – both real-time and historical.
Architecture
The Quest Backup Reporter is a Windows client application. It connects to multiple databases using SQL*Net and reports on information directly from the Oracle data dictionary, V$ views, and Oracle Recovery Manager Catalog. The Quest Backup Reporter does not make any modifications to either the Oracle database or RMAN configuration. It is solely a read-only reporting tool.
The Quest Backup Reporter is designed to monitor a large number of databases. It maintains a small configuration file on the client that contains connection information. All passwords are stored in an encrypted format. The Quest Backup Reporter does not currently maintain any repository of backup information.
System Requirements
Before installing Backup Reporter for Oracle, ensure your system meets the following minimum hardware and software requirements:
| Hardware |
CD-ROM drive or internet connection (needed for install only) VGA monitor, 1024x768 resolution, small fonts Mouse pointing device |
| Memory |
512 MB RAM required, 4 GB recommended |
| Hard Disk Space | 200 MB |
| Operating System |
Windows XP (32-bit or 64-bit) Windows Server 2003 (32-bit or 64-bit) Windows Vista (32-bit or 64-bit) Windows 7 (32-bit or 64-bit) Windows Server 2008 (32-bit or 64-bit) Windows 8 (32-bit and 64-bit) Windows Server 2012 |
| Database Server | Oracle 9i; 9i R2; 10g R1; 10g R2; 11g R1; 11g R2, 12c |
| Server Virtualization | Quest Backup Reporter has been tested on VM 3.1. |
| Additional Software |
Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0 or latter (to view the Release Notes) Adobe Acrobat Reader 7.0 or later (for viewing the Installation Guide) |
Quest Backup Reporter requires that the .NET framework version 2.0 through version 3.5 be installed. The Quest Backup Reporter ships with an Oracle client library so does not require that the Oracle client is installed.