Daily Backup

Question

Dear all ,
Today i am first time implementing daily backup for oracle 10g on rehl5.5. I completed RMAN Configuration.
Now I made script for daily backup in which i include RMAN commands and this commands run successfully in RMAN according to my requirement.
The problem is i don 't know how to run this dbackup.sh file using crontab.
So please guide me how i can execute this file on daily basis.
Thanks in advance
Edited by: abdul moyed on Feb 27, 2012 4:35 PM

Answer 1

Hello;
To run daily at 4PM
00 16 * * 0-6 /u01/app/oracle/dba_tool/PRIMARY/db_rman_full.sh > /tmp/PRIMARY_rmanfull.outThe top of my script call an "env" which is needed for the crontab otherwise the script will fail
#!/bin/bash
# Name: db_rman_full.sh
# Purpose: Database rman backup
# Usage : db_rman_full <DBNAME>
. /u01/app/oracle/dba_tool/env/PRIMARY.env
echo "Starting RMAN..."
$ORACLE_HOME/bin/rman target / catalog <user>/<password>@catalogdb <<EOF/u01/app/oracle/dba_tool/env/PRIMARY.env ( looks likes )
ORACLE_BASE=/u01/app/oracle
ULIMIT=unlimited
ORACLE_SID=PRIMARY
ORACLE_HOME=$ORACLE_BASE/product/11.2.0.2
ORA_NLS33=$ORACLE_HOME/ocommon/nls/admin/data
LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$ORACLE_HOME/lib:/lib:/usr/lib
LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$LD_LIBRARY_PATH:/usr/local/lib
LIBPATH=$LD_LIBRARY_PATH:/usr/lib
TNS_ADMIN=$ORACLE_HOME/network/admin
PATH=$ORACLE_HOME/bin:$ORACLE_BASE/dba_tool/bin:/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/ccs/bin:/etc:/usr/sbin:/usr/ucb:$HOME/bin:/usr/bin/X11:/sbin:/usr/lbin:/GNU/bin/make:/u01/app/oracle/dba_tool/bin:/home/oracle/utils/SCRIPTS:/usr/local/bin:.
export TERM=vt100
export ORACLE_BASE ORACLE_SID ORACLE_TERM ULIMIT
export ORACLE_HOME
export LIBPATH LD_LIBRARY_PATH ORA_NLS33
export TNS_ADMIN
export PATHChange as need for your setup.
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