CONFIGURE DEFAULT DEVICE TYPE TO DISK; CONFIGURE DEVICE TYPE DISK PARALLELISM 2 BACKUP TYPE TO BACKUPSET; CONFIGURE CHANNEL DEVICE TYPE DISK FORMAT '/backup/oracle/pieces/%d_%T_%U.bkp'; CONFIGURE CONTROLFILE AUTOBACKUP ON; CONFIGURE CONTROLFILE AUTOBACKUP FORMAT FOR DEVICE TYPE DISK TO '/backup/oracle/pieces/%F'; CONFIGURE RETENTION POLICY TO RECOVERY WINDOW OF 14 DAYS; # Single disk destination baseline; does not prove an off-host copy exists. CONFIGURE ARCHIVELOG DELETION POLICY TO BACKED UP 2 TIMES TO DISK; SHOW ALL; # Ordinary full backup: NOT a level 1 parent. BACKUP DATABASE PLUS ARCHIVELOG; # Incremental baseline, usually weekly: BACKUP INCREMENTAL LEVEL 0 DATABASE PLUS ARCHIVELOG; # Daily differential incremental: BACKUP INCREMENTAL LEVEL 1 DATABASE PLUS ARCHIVELOG; # Alternative cumulative policy; do not add blindly to the schedule: # BACKUP INCREMENTAL LEVEL 1 CUMULATIVE DATABASE PLUS ARCHIVELOG; BACKUP ARCHIVELOG ALL NOT BACKED UP 2 TIMES TO DEVICE TYPE DISK; BACKUP CURRENT CONTROLFILE; BACKUP SPFILE; LIST BACKUP SUMMARY; REPORT OBSOLETE; RESTORE DATABASE VALIDATE; # Source block check, distinct from backup-read validation: BACKUP VALIDATE CHECK LOGICAL DATABASE; EXIT;