Command Options for BRBACKUP

This section describes the command options for BRBACKUP. If you start BRBACKUP without command options, the values in the Initialization Profile init<DBSID>.sap are used. Unless otherwise specified in the initialization profile init<DBSID>.sap, BRBACKUP starts an offline complete backup to a local tape device, with a storage capacity of 100 GB and no file compression.

For more information about features common to both tools, see Common Features of BRBACKUP and BRARCHIVE.

If you use BRBACKUP with command options, these override the corresponding values in the initialization profile. To use the options, you can specify either the letter indicated or the complete word.

This is the full command syntax:

brbackup
[-a|-archive [<bra_options>]]
[-b|-backup <log_name>|last [-bd|-backup_delete <log_name>|last]
[-c|-confirm [force]]
[-d|-device tape|disk|pipe|disk_copy|disk_standby|tape_auto|
pipe_auto|tape_box|pipe_box|util_file|util_file_online|
util_vol|util_vol_online|
stage|stage_copy|stage_standby|rman_prep|rman_util
|rman_disk|rman_stage]
[-db|-delete_backup <log_name>|last]
[-e|-execute <number>]
[-f|-fillup [<log name1>[<log name2>,..]
|<yyyy-mo-dd hh.mi.ss|<days>|last]
[-g|-gun|-abort stop|term|kill]
[-h|-help [version]]
[-i|-initialize [force|show]]
[-k|-compress no|yes|hardware|only|brtools]
[-l|-language E|D]
[-m|-mode all|all_data|full|incr|<tablespace_name>|<file_ID>|
<file_ID1>-<file_ID2>|<generic_path>|<object list>]|sap_dir|ora_dir|all_dir|partial|non_db]

[-n|-number <number of tapes>]
[-o|-output dist|time[,time|dist]]
[-p|-profile <profile>]
[-pr|-pass_rman|-PR|-PASS_RMAN [<password>]]
[-pw|-pass_wallet|-PW|-PASS_WALLET [<password>]]
[-q|-query [check|nolog|split]]
[-r|-parfile <parameter_file>]
[-s|-saveset 1|2|3|4|tsp|all]
[-t|-type offline|offline_force|offline_standby|
offline_split|offline_mirror|offline_stop|online|
online_cons|online_split|online_mirror|oncons_split|
oncons_mirror|online_standby]|offstby_split|offstby_mirror]lk
[-u|-user [<user>[/<password>]]|/]
[-v|-volume <volume>|<volume list>|SCRATCH]
[-w|-verify [use_dbv|only_dbv|only_conf|use_rmv|only_rmv]]
[-V|-VERSION [ALL]]