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Create user to perform database backups with Netbackup

CharltonwMar 28 2018 — edited Mar 30 2018

Hi All

We have outsourced our backups to another company.

So far we have been doing our own backups using netbackup, but now that we have a segregation of duties we need to be able to create a user for the outsource company who will be able to backup the  oracle database.

However in the Netbackup admin guide it states the following:

On UNIX systems,how you log onto NetBackup depends on how your Oracle authentication is configured: 

  • OS authentication for Oracle:
    • Log onto NetBackup as an Oracle DBA UNIX account that includes sysdba privileges.
  • Oracle authentication by password file:
    • Log onto NetBackup using any UNIX account,including root.You need to provide additional Oracle logon information later in the backup process

This is a problem for us as we can't allow a third party to log onto the server as oracle user as well as creating a database user for them with sysdba privileges.

In 12c we are able to grant them SYSBACKUP role, but this does not exist in 11g.

How can we create a user for the Netbackup team to be able to backup our databases without giving them access to the oracle user on OS level as well as creating a database user for them without SYSDBA privileges but similar to the SYSBACKUP  privileges found in 12c.

Regards,
Charlton

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