Oracle RMAN Pocket Reference

Storing a Script

To store a script you need to connect to both the catalog and the target. You need to connect to the catalog so that RMAN knows where to store the scripts, and you need to connect to the target so that RMAN knows which target database the stored script is associated with.

Once a connection to the target and catalog is established, you can store a script using either the create script or replace script commands. The replace script command creates a new script or replaces a previously stored script by the name under which you store the script. The following example creates a script to do a full backup of a database:

$ rman target / catalog rman_901/rman_901_pwd@rman_catalog

Recovery Manager: Release 9.0.1.0.0 - Production

connected to target database: BRDSTN (DBID=664610428)
connected to recovery catalog database
RMAN> replace script full_back{
2> allocate channel d1 type disk;
3> backup full format
4> '/d0102/backup/rman_%d_%U.bus' database;
5> }

replaced script full_back

This stores the script, which is named full_back, in the catalog. This does not execute the script. To run the commands that you’ve just stored, you need to execute the script.