Scheduling a backup by running a script through crontab

hello
i want to take a backup by rman everyday at a specified time..it's just that i want to create a script and schedule a backup through crontab, so how do i do that?
thanks for the help in advance..

838579 wrote:
hello
i want to take a backup by rman everyday at a specified time..it's just that i want to create a script and schedule a backup through crontab, so how do i do that?
thanks for the help in advance..What do you man "how do I do that"? Do you not know how to write a shell script? Do you not know how to use cron? What, exactly, do you need help with?

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