Re: using rman

I suggest you get the Recovery Manager Quick Reference on http://tahiti.oracle.com : Select your Oracle version (which, btw., you forgot to mention in your post) and goto the list of books.

After reading it, all your answers should be answered. If not, consider reading Recovery Manager Reference and Recovery Manager User's Guide.

Having said all this, here is a quick start to get a list of the commandline options:

rman help

(Note: help is not a valid option for rman, but it gives you a list

        of the options available.)

And probably you'll need to allocate a channel before trying to make a backup. Since this is covered in the mentioned Quick Reference, I can't be bothered to repeat it here... :-)

Regards,

Holger

Detlef Jockheck wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I want to use rman (first time). Is there a short description available
> what I need to do to make a backup with rman?
>
> I've just tried a
> --- cut ---
> RMAN> run {backup database;}
>
> RMAN-03022: Befehl wird kompiliert: backup
> RMAN-03026: Fehlerbehebung bei Freigabe von Kanalressourcen
> RMAN-00571: ===========================================================
> RMAN-00569: =============== ERROR MESSAGE STACK FOLLOWS ===============
> RMAN-00571: ===========================================================
> RMAN-03002: failure during compilation of command
> RMAN-03013: command type: backup
> RMAN-06172: not connected to recovery catalog database
> --- cut ---
>
> How can I create a recovery catalog database? Is it created automatically?
> How can I connect to it?
>
> ciao
> Detlef
>
Received on Tue Jan 07 2003 - 04:43:53 CST