Using the Weekly Full and Daily Incremental Backup Strategy

The weekly full and daily incremental backup strategy is set up once. Backups continue to be created forever and they can be used to perform restore or recovery operations when required.

To configure a weekly full and daily incremental backup strategy:

1. Configure an RMAN channel that corresponds to the destination to which you want to save backups. See Configuring Channels for Backup and Recovery Operations.
2. Configure autobackups for the control file. See Configuring Recovery Manager (RMAN) Settings.
3. Configure any additional optimizations such as compression, parallelism, or multisection backups. See Best Practices to Optimize Cloud Backup Rates.
4. Set up the backup strategy using the following commands:

   BACKUP INCREMENTAL LEVEL 0 DATABASE PLUS ARCHIVELOG NOT BACKED UP DELETE INPUT;
   BACKUP INCREMENTAL LEVEL 1 DATABASE PLUS ARCHIVELOG NOT BACKED UP DELETE INPUT;