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 Backing Up to a Single Backup Medium 

You can use the Backup Wizard to back up data interactively. You can save the data to a single backup medium.

If possible, we recommend that you back up data to a group of parallel backup media, rather than backing up the data to a single backup medium with succeeding media. You cannot make log backups in parallel.

Check the database structures before each complete data backup.

Prerequisites

Only one backup device is available.

You have created the required backup medium.
If you want to perform a backup using an automatic tape loader (Backups with Automatic Tape Loaders), or with the help of external backup tools (Backing Up with with External Backup Tools), then you must state this specifically when defining the backup media.

Under normal circumstances, you should back up database instances in the ONLINE operational state.
In exceptional circumstances, you can back up database instances in the ADMIN operational state.

Procedure

Use the Backup Wizard.

       1.      If you have not yet created a backup medium, do this now as described in Creating a Single Backup Medium. Select a backup medium in the window Media for Backup.

       2.      Check the details. Change them if required (Changing Backup Media).

       3.      Start the backup, or activate automatic log backups.
If the capacity of the specified backup medium is not large enough for the backup and you are not using an automatic tape loader, the Backup Wizard asks you to specify and insert a new backup medium as soon as the previous medium has been filled (see Backups with Manually Changed Media (Succeeding Medium)).

 

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