Crontab job for RMAN Backup as Level 0 and level 1 Create all the directories and give the permission in /backup folder [oracle@Testdb ~]$ cd /backup/rman/ Example: $mkdir friday_level_0 And others [oracle@Testdb rman]$ ls friday_level_0  monday_level_1 … Read more..

Configuring the Default Type for Backups in Oracle database 11gR2 RMAN will take a backup as backupset or image copy by configuring the device type: To backup as BACKUPSET whenever you perform the backup of database, issue the below command: RMAN>; configure device type disk backup type to backupset; old… Read more..

Configuring AUTOBACKUP of CONTROLFILE and SPFILE in Oracle database 11gR2  Whenever you perform any RMAN backup, Configure the Control file & SPFILE  To setup the control file & spfile auto backup RMAN>; configure controlfile autobackup… Read more..

Configuring Retention Policy in RMAN in Oracle database 11gR2 RMAN Configuration retention policy is a feature to avoid the manually deleting the old backup files from the disk in an Oracle database 11g2 Configuring this retention policy is much easily to delete the old backup by setting up as per your requirement Now… Read more..

Backup database when NOARCHIVELOG Mode by using RMAN in Oracle database 11gR2 Consider the database is running in noarchivelog mode, in this case you can take only the offline full db backup & cannot take the online backup If you want to take the full db backup in noarchivelog mode, the db should… Read more..

Offline (Cold) backup of database in Oracle 11gRr2 Fallow the step by step procedure as shown below: Shutdown the database sys@TESTDB>shu immediate Database closed. Database dismounted. ORACLE instance shut down. Now manually copy all the datafiles, logfiles, controlfiles, parameter… Read more..