raccli Utility

The raccli utility is provided on Oracle Database Cloud Service deployments that use Oracle Real Application Clusters (RAC) to perform a variety of life-cycle and administration operations.

Using the raccli utility, you can perform operations like:

• Backing up the database
• Recovering the database from a backup
• Changing configuration of automatic backups
• Patching the Oracle Database, Grid Infrastructure and cloud tooling software
• Changing the configuration of security features
• Tracking the progress and completion of long-running operations performed as asynchronous jobs

To use the raccli utility:

1. Connect as the opc user to a compute node associated with the Database Cloud Service deployment.
2. Run the raccli utility using a command of the form:

   $ raccli subcommand subcommand-options

3. When you are finished using the raccli utility, disconnect from the compute node:

   $ exit