If you configure your default channels you won't need to do this - and can have a global backup script as well. Our databases are configured like this CONFIGURE CHANNEL DEVICE TYPE DISK FORMAT '/DevBackups/db/<DBNAME>/bs_%d_%D%M%Y_%s%t.bak'; and then we have a few global scripts stored in the catalog to do full and incremental backups etc. HTH Niall On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 5:45 PM, Sam Bootsma <sbootsma@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hello all, > > > > Oracle 10.2.0.3, Enterprise Edition, on AIX 5.3. > > > > In our RMAN backup scripts for our AAA database we have several format > lines that look like: > > format '/san2/orabackup/AAA/CTRL_%d_%T_%p_%s%t'; > > > > The same lines for our BBB database looks like: > > format '/san2/orabackup/BBB/CTRL_%d_%T_%p_%s%t'; > > > > Because of this difference in the format lines I need to create and > maintain separate RMAN scripts for each database. If I could pass a > parameter into the RMAN script, then I could have just one RMAN script and > call it with a parameter specifying the database name. > > > > Can anybody tell me if this is possible? Or must I continue to create > separate RMAN scripts for each database I wish to backup? I checked the > Oracle docs, but could not find anything that spoke to what I want to do. > > > > Thanks, > > > > *Sam Bootsma* > > *Oracle Database Administrator* > > *Information** Technology Services** > George Brown College* > > *Phone: 416-415-5000 x4933** > Fax: 416-415-4836** > E-mail: **sbootsma@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx* <sbootsma@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > > > -- Niall Litchfield Oracle DBA http://www.orawin.info