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If you need to install some components in your Oracle database as sys, you could be in for a surprise. You can have different passwords in your password file (in $ORACLE_HOME/dbs) and inside the database. To make sure that the right one is used, perform the following using the role “sys as sysdba” in sqlplus directly on the database server:

sql> alter user sys identified by yourpasswordhere;

This problem could occur if you use the orapwd utility to create a new password for your instance *and* set it to something different than what you have inside of the database.  I have seen it several times during migrations.

I ran the test with the aws library. It works as expected. I used the tag directive, but I am not sure if that got picked up or ignored. Will research further. I have one tiny database that will get backed up to Amazon once  a week using the following syntax:

backup as compressed backupset copy of database  tag 'some_tag';