Cloud Backup:Before you begin

Step 1: Obtain the username and password

1. Install Cloud Assistant for the ECS instance that hosts the database. This step is required if the database that you want to back up is deployed on an ECS instance.

   An Cloud Backup backup client for ECS must be used together with Cloud Assistant.

   • If you purchased the ECS instance before December 1, 2017, you must manually install the Cloud Assistant client. For more information, see Install the Cloud Assistant client.

   • If you purchased the ECS instance on or after December 1, 2017, the Cloud Assistant client is pre-installed.

2. Obtain the username and password of the Oracle database.

   The username and password are used to log on to the Oracle database.

Step 2: Create a backup account and configure permissions

If you do not have a username and password for database backup, we recommend that you contact the administrator to create a backup account. The backup account must have the permissions of the sysdba role, and the resource and connect permissions. For example, you can perform the following steps to create a backup account named backupadmin and grant permissions to the account.

1. Log on to the server where the Oracle database resides and run the SQL PLUS tool as sysdba.

   sqlplus / as sysdba;

2. Create a backup account named backupadmin.

   create user backupadmin identified by your_password;

3. Assign the sysdba role to the backupadmin account.

   grant sysdba to backupadmin;

4. Grant the resource and connect permissions to the backupadmin account.

   grant connect,resource to backupadmin identified by your_password;

   After you complete the preceding operations, you can use the created username and password to register the Oracle database instance for subsequent backup jobs.