Incremental Backup Levels

Hello Everybody.
I want to know the description of all 0-4 levels of incremental backups. Anybody please tell me in details.
Thanks and Regards

ora-boy
Questions like this have version specific answers. Almost all questions have.
It is useless and silly to post any question without any version information.
Here's why
In 8i and 9i: incremental levels are between 0 and 3. There is nothing to explain,
1>0, 2>1, 3>2. That's all.
In 10g there is only 0 and 1. The higher levels have been removed.
Please stop asking questions without version information, assuming people keep track of your version (which we don't) or will summarize it for all available versions (which we won't )
Sybrand Bakker
Senior Oracle DBA

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user12075536123 wrote:
Thank you for advice.
I understand Oracle has "backup level 0-4"
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http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E11882_01/backup.112/e10643/rcmsynta007.htm#i78895
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Hi,
is the level 0 incremental backup a full backup ?
Thank you.

Stellios wrote:
A level 0 backup is not the same as a full backup in that you cannot perform an incremental backup over a full but only over an incremental level 0. So for a large database this may affect your backup strategy (backup running overtime because of no level 0 to start with and implicitly creating one).
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See INCREMENTAL LEVEL:
http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/B19306_01/backup.102/b14194/rcmsynta009.htm#i1009966
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Kindly share the procedure if any by which we can initiate an incremental backup without Level 0 backup

Kindly share the procedure if any by which we can initiate an incremental backup without Level 0 backup
There is NO such procedure.
You can't 'increment' something that doesn't exist can you?
Please increment the previous number by 1. Can you do that? Of course not because there IS no previous number.
BY DEFINITION (see the doc) an incremental backup for any level but 0 REQUIRES a previous backup:
an incremental backup copies only those data blocks that have changed since a previous backup
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A differential incremental backup, which backs up all blocks changed after the most recent incremental backup at level 1 or 0
A cumulative incremental backup, which backs up all blocks changed after the most recent incremental backup at level 0
Incremental backups are differential by default.

Incremental Backups are Cumulative Vs Differential??

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Incremental Backups are cumulative, I need of sunday full backup and tuesday daily backup to restore the database if crash on wednesday.
Scenario 2:
Incremental Backups are differential, then I need of sunday full backup and all incremental backups until crash.
I am wondering which scenario (1 or 2) is for my scripts that I post on above? Because I have different answer from others.
Best Regards,
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Your scripts are following the scenario 1. Incremental backups are by default
differential. Since you are using the keywork CUMULATIVE, it's the 1 scenario.
What made you doubtfull? Scripts are straight forward.......

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>>
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>>
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os =aix6 and database 10g2

afzal wrote:
Dear Sir,
ok question number 2 is clear that incremental backup is not possible but still confuse
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Rman incremental backup

Hi,
we are using oracle10g(10.2.0.3).
is it possible to apply rman incremental backup on top of manual full backup?
Note:There is no level 0 backup available
Thanks
With Regards
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Yes, you can.
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Go through the section "Rolling forward a backup".
Regards,
S.K.

Quesion about the Basic concept of RMAN incremental backup

I have a problem in understanding the basic concept of two types RMAN Incremental backup ie. Differential and Cumulative. I just don't understand how cumulative incremental backup consumes more space than Differential backup.
Have a look at the scenario in which Differential backup is used.
1. On Sunday midnight, a LEVEL0 backup is taken.
2. On Monday midnight all the blocks that was changed since Sunday midnight are stored in the backup media (tape or disk)
3. On Tuesday midnight all the blocks that was changed since monday midnight are stored in the backup media.
4. On Wednesday midnight, all the blocks that was changed since tuesday midnight are stored in the backup media.
At this point, in the backup media, you have all the changed blocks from sunday midnight to wednesday midnight eventhough it was stored in a daily basis. If you had taken a cumulative backup at wednesday midnight the backup media would have contained the same changed blocks from sunday midnight(LEVEL0) to wednesday midnight, but all at one go instead of daily basis. I don't understand how cumulative backup consumes more space when the backup media contains the same amount of changed blocks as it were in the case of the Differential backup.

Considering the Scenario you given:
Sunday : Level 0 backup.
Monday : You have taken an incremental backup then there will not be any difference in size of backup set for differential or cumulative as the changes from last Level0 backup are considered.
Tuesday : A cumulative backup (n-1) will have changed blocks since Sunday's Level0 backup but a differential backup(n) will only have changed blocks since Monday. So definitely there will be more space consumed by cumulative backups compared to differentials.
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About incremental backup

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Sorry Hemant ,
Accroding to ur advice , I run the script following way :
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backup archivelog;
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RMAN-00571: ===========================================================
RMAN-00569: =============== ERROR MESSAGE STACK FOLLOWS ===============
RMAN-00571: ===========================================================
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RMAN>
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I think here database is backup only using LEVEL 1 , but archivelog is backed up full . Here is the output :
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channel t1: sid=159 devtype=DISK
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channel t1: starting archive log backupset
channel t1: specifying archive log(s) in backup set
input archive log thread=1 sequence=2 recid=1 stamp=661354070
input archive log thread=1 sequence=3 recid=2 stamp=661354123
input archive log thread=1 sequence=4 recid=3 stamp=661354895
input archive log thread=1 sequence=5 recid=4 stamp=661354935
input archive log thread=1 sequence=6 recid=5 stamp=661355047
input archive log thread=1 sequence=7 recid=6 stamp=661355050
input archive log thread=1 sequence=8 recid=7 stamp=661355072
input archive log thread=1 sequence=9 recid=8 stamp=661355327
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channel t1: finished piece 1 at 29-JUL-08
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input datafile fno=00003 name=C:\ORACLE\PRODUCT\10.2.0\ORADATA\TESTDB\SYSAUX01.DBF
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input datafile fno=00004 name=C:\ORACLE\PRODUCT\10.2.0\ORADATA\TESTDB\USERS01.DBF
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channel t1: finished piece 1 at 29-JUL-08
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channel t1: specifying archive log(s) in backup set
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channel t1: finished piece 1 at 29-JUL-08
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channel t1: backup set complete, elapsed time: 00:00:02
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piece handle=D:\RMAN_BACK\CFC-2444681464-20080729-0C comment=NONE
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released channel: t1
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what u think , am i right ?

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