To perform backup and recovery operations on a whole multitenant container database (CDB), you connect as TARGET to the root. The connection must be established as a user with the SYSDBA or SYSBACKUP privilege.
You can connect to the root in one of the following ways:
Connect using operating system authentication
You are connected to the root as the SYS user with the SYSDBA privilege.
Connect locally as a common user
Connect as a common user through Oracle Net Services
After you connect to the root, the same commands that are used to perform operations on non-CDBs are used to perform backup and recovery operations on the entire CDB.
See Also:
The following sections in the Oracle Database Backup and Recovery User's Guide provide detailed information about backing up and recovering CDBs: