Dear Experts,
I am trying to configure a simple BRBACKUP using RMAN to local disk (for test purposes) and nothing more.
And here the opinions are splitting:
According to:
this should be possible:
RMAN Full Backup at Level 0 to Disk
A full backup with RMAN and without the backup library can be made to a local disk only.
But on the other side, according to:
RMAN-Relevant Profile Parameters - SAP Database Guide: Oracle (BC-DB-ORA-DBA) - SAP Library
RMAN Backups Without Backup Library
For normal backups to disk with RMAN, you need to make the following entries in the initialization file init<DBSID>.sap or the corresponding command options:
· backup_dev_type = disk
· disk_copy_cmd = rman
Here I don't fully agree with the last statement, because I have been trying this configuration. It basically uses the rman
binary in order to just copy the files to the backup location, instead using cp, it is not the full-featured rman backup taken
at DB block level (where also the dynamic block change tracking comes into play) and also no verification takes place.
I have configured a device type disk in RMAN and when I run RMAN> backup database;
this works and takes the backup as it should, but when I run brbackup, it somehow looks for an SBT_TAPE device,
which of course I don't have.
Here I need to say, that I have specified backup_dev_type = rman_disk (which I know, is the full-featured rman backup)
Can please somebody enlighten me on how to configure brbackup, so that it would look for the device type disk and not
SBT_TAPE ? I have been checking all the rman_ options, but none of them seems to do the trick.
Many thanks in advance!