Define Oracle back up to the external medium

Question

Hi,
I would like to set up back up for my Oracle DB on the external medium (FTP)?
How can I proceed, which parameters should be set in the init<DBSID>.sap ? 
backup_dev_type = stage
archive_stage_dir
remote_host
How can I set “remote user and his password and check that <SAPSID>adm and SAPService<SID> have write access to the external medium?

Answer 1

Ok,
Lets check the documentation:
<i>
<b>stage_root_dir</b>
This parameter identifies the directories used by BRBACKUP to back up database backups to a remote disk. In exceptions (for example, no definition of the parameter archive_stage_dir), BRARCHIVE also uses the directories defined in this parameter if remote disk backup is required
<b>archive_stage_dir</b>
This parameter identifies the directory used by BRARCHIVE to back up the offline redo log files to a remote disk</i>
So, <b>archive_stage_dir</b> for the archive log files and <b>stage_root_dir</b> for the database ( and archives if the first one is not set )
Now the second part:
<i>
<b>remote_user</b>
Use this parameter to specify the user for a remote host, if you want to make a backup to a remote tape or disk.
Syntax: <b>remote_user = <user></b>
Default: none
If you use the ftp network to transfer data you can also specify the password which BRBACKUP uses to log on to the remote host.
<b>remote_user = "<user> <password>"</b>
If you do not specify a password, BRBACKUP uses the password of the database user. If this is the case, the two user passwords must be the same.</i>
so, lets asume the following
1) remote user is -> fidel
2) password for the remote user -> 123456
in this case you have to do:
<b>remote_user = "fidel 123456"</b>
Finally, all parameters together would be like ( for example )
archive_function = save_delete
archive_stage_dir = "/archlogs"       
backup_dev_type = stage       
backup_mode = all             
backup_type = online          
next_max_size = 327680K       
remote_host = blablabla
remote_user = "fidel 123456"
stage_copy_cmd = ftp          
stage_root_dir = "/dbbackup"