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How to backup Oracle Database 10g

It is very vital for everyone to secure Oracle database by keeping a backup. It is

very important to ascertain the recovery point objectives, recovery time objectives
and backup retention policies before you backup your data. It is the duty of the
DBA to find best way to backup the database and recover it when required.

Firstly, you need to configure your database for backup and recovery operations.
Allocate disk space for flash recovery area depending upon your database size
and levels, type of backup you require, how soon do you backup your database
and for how long you want to maintain the backup.

However, backup retention policy helps to save disk space by managing

useful and obsolete backup files. You will have to decide the size for flash area.
Larger flash area means better backup and recovery of your database. Flash area
should be at least enough to hold all your control and data files, archived and
online redo logs. You will have to accommodate more space if you have chosen to
backup your incremental backup files in retention policy.

Login to the Oracle with SYSDBA privileges or as a member of DBA group so

that you have all the required authentications required for backup or data
retrieval process. Configure your flash recovery area and archivelog mode if it
was not done at the time of creating the database. Similarly configure your
backup settings as per your requirements.

Secondly, you can now backup your database using Enterprise Manager once
you have configured your system for backup. Decide the type of backup you
require, that is, full backup of all data files, incremental backup or incrementally
updated backups.

To backup all the data files on your database you need to follow these simple
steps:

1. Go to Maintenance page
2. Click on the backup or recovery section
3. Click on the Schedule Backup option
4. You may use Oracles suggested backup option or customize schedule of your backup. While
customizing your database you may backup whole database, tabelspaces, datafiles, archivelogs
or all recovery files on disk.

5. Check username and password in the host credential fields.

6. If you have customized backup then click on the Schedule Customized Backup option else
click on the Schedule Oracle Suggested Backup.
7. Select Full Backup option from Backup Type section.

8. If your system is in Archivelog Mode then you can also choose Online Backup option
otherwise you will have to select Offline Backup options.

9. You may choose from any of the options from the Advanced section to backup archived logs
or delete backed up archived logs from disk, delete obsolete backups etc.

10. Click on Next

11. Select the destination path for your backup.

12. Specify job name and description for future reference.

13. Schedule your backup to immediate or fix any time and date you prefer.

14. Click Next until Schedule Customized Backup page appears

15. You can view the description of the backup options you have chosen in earlier steps. Click on
back button if you want to make any changes, Edit RMAN Script to edit RMAN commands or
select Submit Jobto run backup. You may also choose to cancel the job by clicking on the Cancel
Button.

16. Click on the View Job to check the status of the backup process

17. Click on finish once your backup files are created.