Oracle 11g ASM supports ASM FTP, by which operations on ASM files and directories can be


performed similarly to conventional operations on normal files using conventional File Transfer


Protocol (FTP). A typical use of such access to an ASM file can be to copy ASM files from one


database to another.


The Oracle database leverages the virtual folder feature of XML DB that provides a way to



access the ASM files and directories through XML DB protocols such as FTP, Hypertext



Transfer Protocol (HTTP), and programmatic APIs. An ASM virtual folder is mounted as



/sys/asm within the XML DB hierarchy. The folder is called “virtual” because nothing is physically



stored in XML DB. All operations are handled by underlying ASM components.


for example,


[oracle@rac1 ~]$ ftp


ftp> open rac1 7777


ftp> use system


ftp> passwd manager


ftp> cd /sys/asm/


ftp> ls


ftp> cd dga


ftp> cd dba


ftp> ls


ftp> bin


ftp> get data01.dbf


ftp> quit


[oracle@rac1 ~]$ ls