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Performing a full database backup

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Performing a full database backup - Amazon Relational Database Service

You can perform a backup of all blocks of data files included in the backup using Amazon RDS procedure rdsadmin.rdsadmin_rman_util.backup_database_full.

This procedure uses the following common parameters for RMAN tasks:

  • p_owner

  • p_directory_name

  • p_label

  • p_parallel

  • p_section_size_mb

  • p_include_archive_logs

  • p_optimize

  • p_compress

  • p_rman_to_dbms_output

  • p_tag

For more information, see Common parameters for RMAN procedures.

This procedure is supported for the following Amazon RDS for Oracle DB engine versions:

  • Oracle Database 21c (21.0.0)

  • Oracle Database 19c (19.0.0)

The following example performs a full backup of the DB instance using the specified values for the parameters.

BEGIN rdsadmin.rdsadmin_rman_util.backup_database_full( p_owner => 'SYS', p_directory_name => 'MYDIRECTORY', p_parallel => 4, p_section_size_mb => 10, p_tag => 'FULL_DB_BACKUP', p_rman_to_dbms_output => FALSE); END; /
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