Calling RMAN script with DBMS_JOB

Question

Hi,
Maybe someone can help me out. I'm perfecting my skills on 9i in the backup area before I have a need to use them and am taking notes.
What I want to do is to store the backup script in the recovery catalog (which I already did under the name BACKUP) and call that script on a daily basis using DBMS_JOBS.
Here is my script:
RMAN>CREATE SCRIPT 'BACKUP'
{ALLOCATE CHANNEL C1 TYPE DISK;
BACKUP INCREMENTAL LEVEL 0 DATABASE
FILESPERSET 4;
BACKUP ARCHIVELOG ALL;
DELETE ARCHIVELOG UNTILTIME 'SYSDATE-7';}
This script compiled and is stored in rman. I ran it and it worked. I also autoconfigured the parameters to backup the controlfile automatically when the backup or copy is done.
Now my next goal is to get this script to run automatically everyday using DBMS_JOBS and this is where it is not working.
I used the DBMS_JOB.SUBMIT parameters to store the job in this feature but first the procedure 'RUNBACKUP' must compile successfully.
DBMS_JOB.SUBMIT(:1,'RUNBACKUP', SYSDATE,'SYSDATE+1');
This RUNBACKUP is a procedure that has to be called by the DBMS_JOBS PACKAGE. But the procedure is where Im having problems trying to write.
I am assuming that rman is not connected to the target database here. So this is what I think it should look like:
CREATE OR REPLACE PROCEDURE RUNBACKUP
BEGIN
RMAN; --the first thing that           
has to be called is rman executable.
CONNECT TARGET AL/AL@BBROWN
--now we have to connect the target db to rman.
CONNECT CATALOG RMAN/RMAN@RCAT;
-- connecting to the recovery catalog.
RUN {EXECUTE SCRIPT 'BACKUP';} --execute the stored backup script
END;
Also, at the end of this procedure I would like to exit rman as the final command.
Any ideas on this would be appreciated and thanks for your help in advance.
Al

Answer 1

You need to create a shell script to execute rman and add that script to cron, something like this:
#!/bin/ksh
# Script name: whole_db_backup.ksh
export PATH=/oracle/app/9i/bin:$PATH
export ORACLE_HOME=/oracle/app/9i
export ORACLE_SID=MDR
rman <<EOF
connect target /
connect catalog rmancat/PASS@RMANCAT
run {execute script whole_db_backup;}
exit
EOF