Help Tagging My Backups

Question

How can I tag my backups so I clearly know what I'm looking at when I view a list of backup sets?
For example, right now I see:
RMAN> list backup of database summary;
using target database control file instead of recovery catalog
List of Backups
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Key     TY LV S Device Type Completion Time #Pieces #Copies Compressed Tag
131     B  F  A DISK        12-OCT-12       1       1       YES        TAG20121012T154159
135     B  F  A DISK        30-OCT-12       1       1       YES        TAG20121030T171251
139     B  F  A DISK        07-NOV-12       1       1       YES        TAG20121107T170457
143     B  F  A DISK        08-NOV-12       1       1       YES        TAG20121108T085328
147     B  F  A DISK        08-NOV-12       1       1       YES        TAG20121108T171127
149     B  F  A DISK        09-NOV-12       1       1       YES        TAG20121109T091126
156     B  F  A DISK        13-DEC-12       1       1       YES        TAG20121213T173203
160     B  F  A DISK        13-DEC-12       1       1       YES        TAG20121213T195417Obviously the date is the key value I would shoot for in this case. But I would like to start tagging my backups with more descriptive tags verses randomly system generated garble. Can someone explain to me how I would add that into my current backup command which is:
backup full as compressed backupset database plus archivelog delete input;Thank you very much and also in general is there a common tagging convention I should stick to that would be universally helpful to other DBA's who need to use my backups at a later date? Just looking for a common example of how a tag would be labeled in the above scenario.
Thanks!

Answer 1

Hello;
How to use Substitution Variables in RMAN commands [ID 427229.1]
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mseberg