Backup with brarchive/brbackup on local disk with RMAN

[hannover_sap-basis]

Hello,

i want to backup on a local disk with rman. Can i use the archive_function copy_delete_save?

futhermore i have the following question:

backup_dev_type= rman_disk => What is an external backup tool?

Best regards

Lutz

[lbreddemann · Accepted solution]

> i want to backup on a local disk with rman. Can i use the archive_function copy_delete_save?

Hi Lutz,

why shouldn't you?

Anyhow, the more important question here is: what sense does this make?

The Oracle archive logs are saved to disk.

Now you want to copy them - to disk.

Then you want to delete the original - on disk.

And finally you want to save the copies you made - to disk again !?

Since the archive logs are incredible important for the recovery you should use a tape or something like that for the final storage.

> futhermore i have the following question:

> backup_dev_type= rman_disk => What is an external backup tool?

Sorry, this is not even a proper question.

With "external backup tool" a backup solution like NetWorker is meant.

To integrate these backup systems into the BRTOOLS backup process you can use the backint interface.

RMAN is kind of handled similarly from the BRTOOLS perspective - as a tool that is called to handle the files, just like dd, cpio, copy...

Hmm... you may want to check the documentation on this whole topic. It's not too much to read and afterwards you will have a much better grasp of it: [Database Backup|http://help.sap.com/saphelp_erp2004/helpdata/en/6a/081d7ce5c8fa44af33bd1258547020/content.htm]

regards,

Lars

[hannover_sap-basis]

problem solved

[Former Member]

Can i use the archive_function copy_delete_save?

No. For disk backups, only one copy of log files is possible. Try save_delete instead.

What is an external backup tool?

Third party software for backups, often used for tape backups, like Legato Networker or Tivoli.

regards