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Oracle® Database Backup and Recovery Reference
11g Release 1 (11.1)

Part Number B28273-01
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deviceSpecifier

Purpose

Use the deviceSpecifier subclause to specify the type of storage for a backup.

Syntax

deviceSpecifier::=

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Semantics

Syntax Element Description
DISK Specifies a disk storage device (see Example 3-16).
media_device Specifies a sequential I/O device or access method for storage (see Example 3-15).

The media_device variable specifies a case-insensitive name for a media manager. The syntax and semantics of sequential I/O device types are platform-specific. The most common value is sbt or sbt_tape (which are synonymous values).

Note: RMAN stores the value sbt in the recovery catalog as sbt_tape for backward compatibility.


Examples

Example 3-15 Allocating a Tape Channel

This example allocates a maintenance channel for a media management device:

ALLOCATE CHANNEL FOR MAINTENANCE DEVICE TYPE sbt;
CROSSCHECK BACKUP;
RELEASE CHANNEL;

Example 3-16 Backing Up the Database to Disk

This example backs up the database to disk:

BACKUP DEVICE TYPE DISK DATABASE;