Procedure documentationPreparing RMAN Backups with BR*Tools

 

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 Start of the navigation path Backup and database copy Next navigation step Additional functions Next navigation step Preparation of RMAN backups End of the navigation path.

  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. 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 the progress.

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