Re: Can I pass a parameter into an RMAN Script?

If you configure your default channels you won't need to do this - and can have a global backup script as well. Our databases are configured like this

CONFIGURE CHANNEL DEVICE TYPE DISK FORMAT '/DevBackups/db/<DBNAME>/bs_%d_%D%M%Y_%s%t.bak'; and then we have a few global scripts stored in the catalog to do full and incremental backups etc.

HTH Niall
On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 5:45 PM, Sam Bootsma <sbootsma_at_georgebrown.ca> wrote:

> Hello all,
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> Oracle 10.2.0.3, Enterprise Edition, on AIX 5.3.
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> In our RMAN backup scripts for our AAA database we have several format
> lines that look like:
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> format '/san2/orabackup/AAA/CTRL_%d_%T_%p_%s%t';
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> The same lines for our BBB database looks like:
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> format '/san2/orabackup/BBB/CTRL_%d_%T_%p_%s%t';
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> Because of this difference in the format lines I need to create and
> maintain separate RMAN scripts for each database. If I could pass a
> parameter into the RMAN script, then I could have just one RMAN script and
> call it with a parameter specifying the database name.
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> Can anybody tell me if this is possible? Or must I continue to create
> separate RMAN scripts for each database I wish to backup? I checked the
> Oracle docs, but could not find anything that spoke to what I want to do.
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> Thanks,
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> *Sam Bootsma*
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> *Oracle Database Administrator*
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> *Information** Technology Services**
> George Brown College*
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> *Phone: 416-415-5000 x4933**
> Fax: 416-415-4836**
> E-mail: **sbootsma_at_georgebrown.ca* <sbootsma_at_georgebrown.ca>
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