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10.3 Backup examples
Image copies are not discussed further in this chapter, because RMAN does
not send image copies to TSM — they are always stored locally on disk.
This section describes some typical backup examples using RMAN, complete
with sample scripts. The examples are based on the following database
instances:
Target database: paris
Recovery catalog database: rio
For the examples, we used RMAN command files and redirected the output to
logfiles. RMAN command files are regular text files containing commands
executed by RMAN.
The examples illustrate how to perform the following functions:
Whole consistent database backup
Archive redo log backup
incremental level 0 backup
10.3.1 Consistent whole database backup
In our example, we are using RMAN to shut down and restart the database to
guarantee, that all read-write datafiles and control files have been check
pointed with respect to the same SCN.
This example is suitable for databases operating in ARCHIVELOG and
NOARCHIVELOG mode and is in our opinion the most common backup
operation.
On our environment we created a folder called scripts in the c:\oracle\admin
directory. In this folder we store our RMAN scripts. Before running the RMAN
scripts we first change to this directory and also set ORACLE_SID=BEACH.
C:\oracle\admin\scripts>rman target internal/manager@beach rcvcat rman/rman@rio
cmdfile=backup_offline_beach log=backup_offline_beach.log
Figure 50. Whole consistent backup, RMAN command
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