Backing up a control file - Amazon Relational Database Service
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Backing up a control file

You can back up a control file using the Amazon RDS procedure rdsadmin.rdsadmin_rman_util.backup_current_controlfile.

This procedure uses the following common parameters for RMAN tasks:

  • p_owner

  • p_directory_name

  • p_label

  • 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)

The following example backs up a control file using the specified values for the parameters.

BEGIN
    rdsadmin.rdsadmin_rman_util.backup_current_controlfile(
        p_owner               => 'SYS', 
        p_directory_name      => 'MYDIRECTORY',
        p_tag                 => 'CONTROL_FILE_BACKUP',
        p_rman_to_dbms_output => FALSE);
END;
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