Performing an incremental database backup - Amazon Relational Database Service
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Performing an incremental database backup

You can perform an incremental backup of your DB instance using the Amazon RDS procedure rdsadmin.rdsadmin_rman_util.backup_database_incremental.

For more information about incremental backups, see Incremental backups in the Oracle documentation.

This procedure uses the following common parameters for RMAN tasks:

  • p_owner

  • p_directory_name

  • p_label

  • p_parallel

  • p_section_size_mb

  • p_include_archive_logs

  • p_include_controlfile

  • p_optimize

  • p_compress

  • p_rman_to_dbms_output

  • p_tag

For more information, see Common parameters for RMAN procedures.

This procedure is supported for the following Amazon RDS for Oracle DB engine versions:

  • Oracle Database 21c (21.0.0)

  • Oracle Database 19c (19.0.0)

This procedure also uses the following additional parameter.

Parameter name Data type Valid values Default Required Description

p_level

number

0, 1

0

No

Specify 0 to enable a full incremental backup.

Specify 1 to enable a non-cumulative incremental backup.

The following example performs an incremental backup of the DB instance using the specified values for the parameters.

BEGIN
    rdsadmin.rdsadmin_rman_util.backup_database_incremental(
        p_owner               => 'SYS', 
        p_directory_name      => 'MYDIRECTORY',
        p_level               => 1,
        p_parallel            => 4,  
        p_section_size_mb     => 10,
        p_tag                 => 'MY_INCREMENTAL_BACKUP',
        p_rman_to_dbms_output => FALSE);
END;
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