RMAN Help

[karthiknarayan]

Dear Admin-

I have Oracle 9i installed on a HP-UX 11i machine,I am using RMAN to take backup, when i give
RMAN> backup database;it backups to the normal $ORACLE_BASE/dbs directory. can i change the directory to some other directory, if so how. please help


regards
karthik

[Peter Godron · Accepted solution]

Hi,
you should be able to change directory with an option of:

RMAN >CONFIGURE CHANNEL DEVICE TYPE DISK

probably FORMAT

[spex]

Hi karthik,

RMAN> allocate channel c1 type disk;
RMAN> backup database format '/foo';
RMAN> release channel c1;

PCS

[karthiknarayan]

RMAN >CONFIGURE CHANNEL DEVICE TYPE DISK