Preparing RMAN Backups with BR*Tools 

Use

You can use BR*Tools for Oracle to prepare RMAN backups. BRBACKUP performs the preparation.

If you back up with the Oracle Recovery Manager (RMAN), we recommend that you perform this procedure once a month. It determines the optimal distribution of files to save sets for an RMAN backup.

Prerequisites

Make sure that you have set the necessary BRBACKUP parameters in the initialization profile init<DBSID>.sap, because BRTOOLS uses these when it calls BRBACKUP.

Procedure

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       1.      Start BRGUI or BRTOOLS.

       2.      Choose Backup and database copy  → Additional functions  → Preparation of RMAN backups..

       3.      Set the required options:

Menu Entry	Equivalent BRBACKUP Command Option
BRBACKUP profile (profile)	-p|-profile
Database user/password (user)	-u|-user
Backup type (type)	-t|-type
Files for preparation (mode)	m|-mode
Confirmation mode (confirm)	-c|-confirm
Query mode (query)	-q|-query
Parallel execution (execute)	-e|-execute
Additional output (output)	-o|-output
Message language (language)	-l|-language
BRBACKUP command line (command)	This shows you the BRBACKUP –d rman_prep command that is to be executed using the current settings.

       4.      To start processing with the selected options, choose Continue.

       5.      You check the results in the BRBACKUP logs.

¡        The summary log back<DBSID>.logdisplays the return code.

¡        The detail log b<encoded timestamp>.rmp displays progress.

For more information on how to view the logs, see Showing Logs with BR*Tools.