If you are using Oracle Cloud you should be using the PSM for all of your Object Storage Container ( OSS ) and DBaaS Instance for all your backup needs. You should submit a support request before troubleshooting any of these issues, especially if you don't have a dev instance. The absolute path's I use in here are based off how a PSM provisioned instance of Oacle Cloud's DBaaS 12.2 Single Instance installed on Oracle Linux.
The bkup_api
is located in the /var/opt/oracle/bkup_api
directory. If you intend to learn this utility on a development VM I suggest the first command you run is sudo -s
. You will need to be root for the entirety of this post. You can run an ls -ltra
to see the directory structure, but the only pertinent files/directories
- drwxr-x---. 2 root root 4096 Mar 26 2019 log
- -r-xr-xr-x. 1 oracle oinstall 1148 Oct 3 21:45 README