BRBACKUP Summary Log

You can display a brief entry for each backup in the summary log back<DBSID>.log. The entries in the file provide the following information about each backup using BRBACKUP:

• Action ID (encoded timestamp of the log name)

• Function ID (extension of the log name)

• Timestamp (date, time) specifying the start of the backup

• Timestamp (date, time) specifying the end of the backup

• Return code

• Total compression rate (appears only when compression was used)

• Total count of database files

• Number of saved database files

• Number of saved non-database files

• Begin redo log sequence number of the backup

• End redo log sequence number of the backup

• Begin Oracle system change number of the backup

• End Oracle system change number of the backup

• Type of backup:

  • ALL[+]: all database files

  • ALL_DATA[+]: all pure data tablespaces

  • FULL[+]: full database backup

  • PARTIAL[+]: partial backup

  • INCR[+]: incremental database backup

  • NON_DB: only non-database files (for example, sap_dir, ora_dir)

  “+” means that non-database files were also backed up.

• Value of the parameter backup_type

• Value of the parameter backup_dev_type

• Internal flags for the BRBACKUP command options

• BRBACKUP version