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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

  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

    BRBACKUP run (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>.log displays 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.