On 4/17/07, GovindanK <gkatteri@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Lot of ideas have been given about this thread. Autobackup is one good concept. It is preferred you put the dbid as part of the media handle or wherever you can plug that in.
The default media handle is %F, which includes the DBID. You must include %F in any custom filespec, or an error will be raised. RMAN> configure controlfile autobackup format for device type sbt to '/tmp/ctl_auto_%d.ctl'; RMAN-00571: =========================================================== RMAN-00569: =============== ERROR MESSAGE STACK FOLLOWS =============== RMAN-00571: =========================================================== RMAN-03002: failure of configure command at 04/17/2007 22:46:43 RMAN-06492: controlfile autobackup format "/tmp/ctl_auto_%d.ctl" must specify a "%F" format specifier RMAN> -- Jared Still Certifiable Oracle DBA and Part Time Perl Evangelist