Backing Up a Database Disk Backup

Prerequisites

Make sure the database is running in ARCHIVELOG mode. For more information, see Setting Up Archiving.
Make sure you have set the necessary BRBACKUP parameters in the initialization profile init<DBSID>.sap, because BRTOOLS uses these when it calls BRBACKUP.
Make sure you have the right backup volumes. When you back up to tape, make sure that you have read the notes on managing and initializing the tapes. For more information, see Volume Management.
Allow enough time for the backup. Hardware compression can halve the backup time.

You can use BR*Tools for Oracle to back up the database. BRBACKUP performs the backup.

Set the required options:

Menu Entry	Equivalent BRBACKUP Command Option
BRBACKUP profile (profile)	-p\|-profile
Backup device type (device)	-d\|-device
Tape volumes for backup (volume)	-v\|-volume
BACKINT/ Mount profile (parfile)	-r\|-parfile
Database user/password (user)	-u\|-user
Backup type (type)	-t\|-type
Disk backup for backup (backup)	-b\|-backup
Delete disk backup (delete)	-bd\|-backup_delete
Files for backup (mode)	-m\|-mode
Confirmation mode (confirm)	-c\|-confirm
Query mode (query)	-q\|-query
Compression mode (compress)	-k\|-compress
Verification mode (verify)	-w\|-verify
Fill-up previous backups (fillup)	-f\|-fillup
Parallel execution (execute)	-e\|-execute
Additional output (output)	-o\|-output
Message language (language)	-l\|-language
BRBACKUP command line (command)	This shows you the BRBACKUP command that is to be executed using the current settings.

To start the backup with the selected options, choose Continue.
Check the results in the BRBACKUP logs.
- The summary log back<DBSID>.log displays the return code.
- The detail log b<encoded timestamp>.<ext> displays the progress.
For more information on how to view the logs, see Showing Profiles and Logs with BR*Tools.