Oracle Databases?

It might be possible.

What you probably *don't* want to do is simply backup the Oracle data directory (wherever that is).

Best case is that the files will just be locked and BuddyBackup won't be able to backup. Worst case is that BuddyBackup backs up midway through DB transactions.

Backing up databases is tricky: almost always you need to actually engage with the software to tell it that a backup is about to happen (so it can finish transactions and flush data to disk etc).

The best way to do this is to use the software that comes with your database to regularly create a backup as a file which you save to a folder, e.g. every night. Then, backup that folder with BuddyBackup.

We do exactly this with our MySQL database: we setup a scheduled backup with the MySQL admin UI which runs nightly and saves the backup to a folder. This folder is backed up by BuddyBackup as normal.

You don't get "live" backup of the database, but then that wouldn't be practical with BuddyBackup.

John

Actually what you could do is make sure that the backup gets saved to the same filename every time. e.g. "C:\oracle\backup.bak".

That way, BuddyBackup can do incremental binary backups (backing up only the changes within each version of the file. Your mileage may vary, but it could well get quite small backups each time.

John