Names of the Detail Logs 
Every detail log contains a name with the following format:
b<encoded timestamp>.<ext>
The first characters indicate the encoded time the archiving was performed (action ID). The extension (function ID) indicates the type of archiving.
Possible values for
e
:
a
: The entire database was backed up (
backup_mode = all|all_data
).
p
: One or more tablespaces or files were backed up.
Possible values for
x
:
- n
: The backup was performed online (
backup_type = online|online_cons|online_split
).
- f
: The backup was performed offline (
backup_type = offline|offline_force|offline_standby|offline_split
).
Possible values for
t
(specification of backup devices):
- t
: Tape device (
backup_device_type = tape|tape_auto|tape_box
).
- d
: Disk (
backup_device_type = disk|disk_copy|disk_standby
).
- p
: Tape device on a remote system (
backup_device_type = pipe|pipe_auto|pipe_box
)
- f
: External backup program used; backup performed file by file (
backup_device_type = util_file|util_file_online
).
Other function IDs:
- tib
: One of the BRBACKUP options
-i
,
-i force
or
-i show
was used to initialize a volume or display the information in the label.
- qub
: One of the BRBACKUP options
-q
or
-q check
was used to display which volumes are to be used for the backup, or to make sure that these volumes were actually mounted; no backup was started.
- cmb
: The BRBACKUP option
-k only
was used to only perform a software compression, but no backup was started. This can be used to determine the current compression rate of all files.