Schedule the daily backup from Monday to Saturday?

Question

Dear all,
I am the first time to scheduling the daily backup, I have following questions:
1) My daily backup scripts in what format? for example: in sh format
Run
     CONFIGURE CONTROLFILE AUTOBACKUP ON;
     CONFIGURE RETENTION POLICY TO RECOVERY WINDOW OF 7 DAYS;
     allocate channel ch1 type disk format '/u02/db/backup/RMAN/backup_%d_%t_%s_%p_%U.bck';
     backup incremental level 1 cumulative database plus archivelog delete all input;
     delete noprompt obsolete;
     delete noprompt archivelog all backed up 2 times to disk;
     backup current controlfile;
     backup spfile;
     release channel ch1;
2) I am not familiar with to using schedule job, I know following structure.
Minute hour [Day of Month] [Month] [Day of Week]
Minute (0)
Hour (24)
Day of month (??)
Month (every month)
Day of week (0-6) 0 = Sunday, 1 = Monday, ... or Sun, Mon, etc)
Command to execute (how to execute the command)
Best Regards,
Amy

Answer 1

Hi,
Firstly, if you are using recovery catalog, then create rman scripts and In case you dont have recobery catalog, then add the backup script in the .sh file .
Then create .sh file and not to forget add environment variable for oracle in that .sh file.
Then schedule that file with cron and format you know for the cron.
Make sure cron is started on the machine.
Example for .sh file is
export ORACLE_SID=<ORACLE_SID>
export path=<ORACLE_PATH>
rman<<EOF
connect target sys/<password
run{
body
but the best way is to go for rman backup scripts using recobery catalog
THanks,
Navneet