Does brbackup have a option to delete previous backup?

[Former Member]

HI, All:

does brbackup has a option to delete previous backup before start another backup? In other words, do we have to write a script to manully clean the backup directory before we start another brbackup if we only want to keep the most current backup?

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

there is no such option in brbackup tool.

You have to manually delete the previous backup file.

[former_member204746]

why do you want to delete a previous backup? You want to hide the fact that you made a bad backup or started an offline backup during the day?

[Former Member]

because RMAN has options to manage previous backups, so just wondering whether brbackup has the same abilities.

here is my question though, when I do the brbackup with RMAN, in initSID.sap file, I specialy disk_copy_cmd = rman, is there anything else I need to set to integrate brbackup with rman? do I need to set up RMAN channels too? do I need to set backup_dev_type=rman_disk? I guess my question is, how to u integrate rman with brbackup,

thank you for your help