Incremental Backup in SAP

Hai Friends,
We Planned to take a remote backup in production server. For that we are using brtools for backup and edit the initSID.ora file.
We are planned to copy the files to the remote server for every one hour. ie we planned to take incremental backup using BRtools.
simply, I need a help for taking incremental backup in our production server using BRtools.
Thanks in Advance
G.G.Karthickbabu

Hi. Read http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw70/helpdata/EN/54/e48f5985097648a31b67a9eee883b4/frameset.htm
              http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw70/helpdata/EN/0e/f10a7443d711d29fef0000e8a5ae06/frameset.htm
              http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw70/helpdata/EN/87/e4eb7c2cc35242a01ae5f592df71af/content.htm
Regards.

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