Performing a full database backup

You can perform a backup of all blocks of data files included in the backup using Amazon RDS procedure rdsadmin.rdsadmin_rman_util.backup_database_full.

This procedure uses the following common parameters for RMAN tasks:

For more information, see Common parameters for RMAN procedures.

This procedure is supported for the following Amazon RDS for Oracle DB engine versions:

The following example performs a full backup of the DB instance using the specified values for the parameters.

BEGIN
 rdsadmin.rdsadmin_rman_util.backup_database_full(
 p_owner => 'SYS', 
 p_directory_name => 'MYDIRECTORY',
 p_parallel => 4, 
 p_section_size_mb => 10,
 p_tag => 'FULL_DB_BACKUP',
 p_rman_to_dbms_output => FALSE);
END;
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