Schedule rman using cron job

I have scheduled a cron job to take rman backup of database everyday at 4PM. But I see that the empty backup.log file is getting generated while the script is not running. If I run the backup.sh script manually then the backup is running fine. The following are the scripts and the crontab details,
backup.sh script is as follows,
cd /u01/app/oracle/rmanbkp
rman target / <<EOF
run
allocate channel ch1 type disk format '/u01/app/oracle/rmanbkp/%d_%T_%s.bak';
backup database;
delete noprompt obsolete;
exit;
EOF
while the output of 'crontab -l' is
00 16 * * * /home/imsoracle/backup.sh > backup.log
Backup is not happening, what is wrong in my settings. Please advise.

Dear $ami Malik,
There is another option that you can use for RMAN scripting as shown below;
0 2 * * 2 export ORACLE_HOME=/oracle/product/10.2.0/db_1/ ;
/oracle/product/10.2.0/db_1/bin/rman cmdfile /db/optima/archive/OPTPROD/RMAN/backup_full.sh
log /db/optima/archive/OPTPROD/RMAN/backup_full.log
vals2:/home/oracle#cat /db/optima/archive/OPTPROD/RMAN/backup_full.sh
connect target sys/password@optprod
backup database format '/db/optima/archive/OPTPROD/backupset/DB_FULL_%d_%t_%s_%p';
backup archivelog all delete all input format '/db/optima/archive/OPTPROD/backupset/ARC_%d_%t_%s';
exit;So you can construct such backup strategy with the cmdfile and log options of the recovery manager.
Hope That Helps.
Ogan

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