A supported version of Oracle is installed in a supported Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) host environment.

See Meeting system requirements.

Oracle standalone instance is discoverable.

Oracle binary and Oracle data must be on separate volumes.

Log archiving is enabled.

The db_recovery_file_dest_size parameter size is set as per Oracle recommendation.

For more information, refer to the Oracle Database Backup and Recovery Basics.

The databases are running, mounted, and open.

Snapshot Manager supports discovery and snapshot operations on databases that are in a backup mode. After taking snapshots, the state of the databases is retained as is; Snapshot Manager does not change the status of such databases. However, in-place restore for such databases is not supported.