Fbackup Oracle and OAS

[Chen Yingjie]

We are using ROOT ID to do fbackup ORACLE and OAS. Can we use another ID to do above job?

Thanks in advice.

[Kofi ARTHIABAH]

Yes but you can only backup things owned (or accessible by) the oracle user - as the man pages for fbackup indicate:

fbackup does not require special privileges. However, if the user
does not have access to a given file, the file is not backed up.

[John Palmer]

Providing that ID has permissions to read all the files that you want to backup then you should be ok.

[Chen Yingjie]

John:
Do you mean If i make a new ID and register this to ORACLE and OAS's user group(/etc/group), then i can use this ID to backup ORACLE and OAS?

Thank You.

[Kofi ARTHIABAH]

Chen:
Basically whatever user you register, must have at least read access to the files you want to backup - so if you have the dba group set up to have read permissions on the files you want to backup, then you will be able to backup the oracle files. Mind you, you will not be able to backup files that are owned by root.