Specifying the Media Parameters for Oracle RMAN Command Line Operations

RMAN command line backups use the storage policy and the data path specified in the CommCell Oracle database instance by default.

You can override the default parameters by specifying media and SBT parameters in the RMAN script and then running the script from the RMAN command line. This feature is supported for backup, restore, and duplicate database operations.

You must associate the Data Path (MediaAgent, Library, Drive Pool) with the specified storage policy in the parameters file.

Procedure

Create a media parameters file with the required media parameters.

You can also include the SBT parameters in the parameters file. For information on the supported media and SBT parameters, see Media Parameters and SBT Parameters.

The parameter file format is as follows:
```
 
[<Parameter Name-1>] 
<Value-1> <
[<Parameter Name-2>] 
<Value-2>
```
Example
```
[sp]
SP_Ora
[mediaagent]
firewall-con_cn
[library]
CommVault VirtualLib 276
[drivepool]
DrivePool(firewall-con_cn)254
```
The [mediaagent] parameter must specify the MediaAgent's client name, and not its display name.

Create an RMAN script and use the CvOraSbtParams environment variable to specify a path to the media parameters file.

Example

run {
allocate channel ch1 type ‘sbt_tape’ PARMS=”BLKSIZE=1048576,
ENV=(CvOraSbtParams=D:\parameters.txt)”;
backup database;
release channel ch1; }

On the RMAN command line, connect to the target database.

Example
```
rman target sys/sys@dbtnsname
```
On the RMAN command line, run the RMAN script.

Example

Run the RMAN script named backup.txt.
```
@backup.txt
```