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.
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.
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)).