brbackup - incremental can not find full

[Former Member]

I have done a brbackup full no errors

the command used

brbackup -u / -p initPSM.sap -t offline -c -k yes

then the next night i tried to do an incremental

brbackup -u / -p initPSM.sap -t online -m incr -c -a -sd

but I get the errors

BR0051I BRBACKUP 7.00 (11)

BR0055I Start of database backup: bduvwyzl.ind 2007-03-20 00.15.01

BR0477I Oracle pfile /oracle/PSM/102_64/dbs/initPSM.ora created from spfile /oracle/PSM/102_64/dbs/spfilePSM.ora

BR0515E Last full database backup (level 0) not found

BR0520I Please start a full database backup (level 0) first

BR0314E Collection of information on database files failed

BR0056I End of database backup: bduvwyzl.ind 2007-03-20 00.15.05

BR0280I BRBACKUP time stamp: 2007-03-20 00.15.05

BR0054I BRBACKUP terminated with errors

BR0280I BRBACKUP time stamp: 2007-03-20 00.15.05

BR0291I BRARCHIVE will be started with options '-U -d disk -sd'

BR0280I BRBACKUP time stamp: 2007-03-20 00.15.06

BR0292I Execution of BRARCHIVE finished with return code 3

the other then the -k option on the full, the command line options were

provided to me by the SAP person here on site

-pete

[Former Member]

Hi Pete,

I think you must use "-m full" option at the initial backup.

Regards,

JC Llanes.

[Former Member]

thanks .. i guess it is time to RTMF vs getting advice from the 'experts' on site

-pete

[Former Member]

Hello Peter,

One note, if you want to use "incremental" backup, you have to configure BRBACKUP to perform the backups using RMAN.

If you do not use RMAN, then you cannot use incremental.

Note 1, the manual is very good

perhaps a bit "big" but you can take a look to the parts you are interested now and leave the rest for later

Note 2, perhaps it is better that you use the forum SAP on Oracle for this questions

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Fidel Vales

[Former Member]

is the the RMAN that comes with a base oracle install or the RMAN that sits

on its own server and has a RMAN catalogue etc

-pete

[Former Member]

is this the ....

[Former Member]

Hello,

RMAN is RMAN

Recovery Manager

You can use it with catalog or without catalog

The catalog can be in a different server.

If you configure BR* to use RMAN, then it will be used without catalog, in that case, he will store backup information on the control files.

Regards

Fidel