Configuration: Data Guard primary and standby databases sending backups and (optionally) redo to different Recovery Appliances that are not configured for Backup Anywhere Replication, with the primary and standby databases each configured with an alternate Recovery Appliance (backup and redo continuity)

FinanceDB and FinanceStby are the primary and standby databases respectively in a Data Guard configuration, onboarded with a pair of Recovery Appliances Montreal_ZDLRA and Vancouver_ZDLRA using a non-replicating protection policy. Configure these databases to send backups (but not redo in this example) to their respective Recovery Appliance using a common vpc user commonvpc. A global named credential DB_SYSDBA_USER is specified for the databases and target-specific named credential specified for each host, DB_HOST1_CRED and DB_HOST2_CRED. Since backup and recovery continuity is required, alternate Recovery Appliances Quebec_ZDLRA and Victoria_ZDLRA are specified for the primary and standby databases, respectively. A replication server is set up between Montreal_ZDLRA and Quebec_ZDLRA with the protection policy being used for the FinanceDB. Similarly, replication is set up between Vancouver_ZDLRA and Victoria_ZDLRA.

EMCLI Command:

emcli configure_db_ha
          -configureBackupToRA -backup_config="GOLD" -input_file="target_list:
          /tmp/dblist" -br_continuity

The content of /tmp/dblist file:

target.0.target_name="FinanceDB"
target.0.target_type="oracle_database"
target.0.ra_target_name="Montreal_ZDLRA"
target.0.ra_vpc_username="commonvpc"
target.0.db_cred="DB_SYSDBA_USER"
target.0.db_host_cred="DB_HOST1_CRED"
target.0.alternate_ra.0.target_name="Quebec_ZDLRA"
target.1.target_name="FinanceStby"
target.1.target_type="oracle_database"
target.1.ra_target_name="Vancouver_ZDLRA"
target.1.ra_vpc_username="commonvpc"
target.1.db_cred="DB_SYSDBA_USER"
target.1.db_host_cred="DB_HOST2_CRED"
target.1.alternate_ra.0.target_name="Victoria_ZDLRA"