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Requirements:
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The Oracle VSS Writer service must be installed for the Oracle instances that need to be backed
up. The Oracle VSS Writer service must be in Started & Automatic state. In case the Oracle VSS
Writer service is not installed by default, please refer to the Oracle documentation to install the
service Installing and Uninstalling the Oracle VSS Writer Service.
The Volume Shadow Copy Service must be enabled. Although the Volume Shadow Service is
enabled by default, it may have been turned off after Windows installation. Please refer to the
Requirements section.
Oracle database in NOARCHIVELOG mode needs to be Mounted and in Read-Only state. The
database cannot be Open in Read Write mode, else the backup will fail.
Oracle database in ARCHIVELOG mode may be Open in Read Write or in Mounted state.
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Monitoring
The Monitor page displays the status of backups, restores, uploads and downloads operations in
progress for all backup sets. Please note that Monitor page shows only the most recent in-progress task
for a backup set.
Different operations can be clicked or right-clicked to display different options. For instance, you may
want to stop any ongoing task, or may want to pause an upload operation to reduce network bandwidth
usage during peak office hours.
The summary of available options, for each type of operation is below.
Operation Option
Stop
Pause
Resume
Backup to Cloud
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backup to Disk
Yes
No
No
Upload to Cloud
Yes
Yes
Yes
Download
Yes
No
No
Restore
Yes
No
No
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Please note that if you are resuming an upload job, ZCB will also resume any incomplete upload jobs pending for that
backup set. If you wish to resume only one job, please use the Report page.
Reporting
The Report page displays a table of various historic operations performed by ZCB. This page allows
following two basic functionalities:
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