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Oracle® Secure Backup Reference
Release 10.1

Part Number B14236-03
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Preface

This Preface contains these topics:

Audience

This book is intended for system administrators and database administrators who perform backup and restore operations. To use this document, you need to be familiar with the operating system environment on which you plan to use Oracle Secure Backup. To perform Oracle database backup and restore operations, you should also be familiar with Oracle backup and recovery concepts, including Recovery Manager (RMAN).

Documentation Accessibility

Our goal is to make Oracle products, services, and supporting documentation accessible, with good usability, to the disabled community. To that end, our documentation includes features that make information available to users of assistive technology. This documentation is available in HTML format, and contains markup to facilitate access by the disabled community. Accessibility standards will continue to evolve over time, and Oracle is actively engaged with other market-leading technology vendors to address technical obstacles so that our documentation can be accessible to all of our customers. For more information, visit the Oracle Accessibility Program Web site at

http://www.oracle.com/accessibility/

Accessibility of Code Examples in Documentation

Screen readers may not always correctly read the code examples in this document. The conventions for writing code require that closing braces should appear on an otherwise empty line; however, some screen readers may not always read a line of text that consists solely of a bracket or brace.

Accessibility of Links to External Web Sites in Documentation

This documentation may contain links to Web sites of other companies or organizations that Oracle does not own or control. Oracle neither evaluates nor makes any representations regarding the accessibility of these Web sites.

TTY Access to Oracle Support Services

Oracle provides dedicated Text Telephone (TTY) access to Oracle Support Services within the United States of America 24 hours a day, seven days a week. For TTY support, call 800.446.2398.

Related Documents

For more information about using Oracle Secure Backup, see the following Oracle resources:

For more information about database backup and recovery, including the Recovery Manager (RMAN) utility, see the following Oracle resources:

The Oracle Secure Backup product site is located at the following URL:

http://www.oracle.com/technology/products/secure-backup

The Oracle Secure Backup download site is located at the following URL:

http://www.oracle.com/technology/software

Conventions

This section describes the conventions used in the text and code examples of this manual. It describes:

Conventions in Text

The following text conventions are used in this document:

Convention Meaning
boldface Boldface type indicates graphical user interface elements associated with an action, or terms defined in text or the glossary.
italic Italic type indicates book titles, emphasis, or placeholder variables for which you supply particular values.
monospace Monospace type indicates commands within a paragraph, URLs, code in examples, text that appears on the screen, or text that you enter.

Conventions in Syntax Diagrams

Syntax diagrams indicate legal syntax for Oracle Secure Backup commands. Syntax diagrams are displayed in a monospace (fixed-width) font and are preceded with a heading as shown in the following example:

clean::=

clean [ --drive/-D drivename ] [ --force/-f ] [--use/-u element-spec ]

The following table describes typographic conventions used in syntax diagrams.

Convention Meaning Example
[ ]
Brackets enclose optional items from which you can choose one or none.

A space is included after a beginning bracket and before a closing bracket for improved readability. Note that a comma-delimited list of tokens following a command option cannot be separated by spaces unless the entire string is enclosed within quotes.

cancel•job [ --quiet/-q | --verbose/-v ]
[ --tag/-t tag[,tag]... ]
{ }
Braces are required items for which you need to select one of the enclosed values. Each value is separated by a vertical bar (|).

A space is included after a beginning brace and before a closing brace for improved readability. Note that a comma-delimited list of tokens following a command option cannot be separated by spaces unless the entire string is enclosed within quotes.

disc•overdev { --host/-h hostname }...
{ * | dbname[,dbname]... }
|

A vertical bar represents a choice of two or more options within brackets or braces. Enter exactly one of the options.
ls [ --long/-l | --short/-s ]
--text/-text
A slash separating two flags, each preceded by one or two dashes, indicates an either-or choice between semantically equivalent options. For example, --in/-i represents a choice between the --in and -i flags.
[ --level/-l backup-level ]
...
Horizontal ellipsis points indicate that the preceding syntax item can be repeated. Note that spaces are not permitted between comma-delimited items.
sho•w [ variable-name ]...

A bullet within command syntax indicates that the characters between the bullet and the terminating whitespace can be omitted for convenience.
inv•entory
Italics
Italicized text indicates placeholders or variables for which you must supply particular values.
chkds dataset-file-name ...

Conventions in Code Examples

Code examples illustrate Oracle Secure Backup command-line statements. They are displayed in a monospace (fixed-width) font and separated from normal text as shown in this example:

ob> backup --dataset homedir.ds --go

The following table describes typographic conventions used in examples.

Convention Meaning Example
courier
Courier typeface indicates command line entries, system output display, options and arguments that you enter, executables, filenames, and directory names.
ob> cdds /mydatasets
Bold
Bold typeface distinguishes user input from command output in examples in cases where the two could be confused.
ob> mkds --nq --input mydataset.ds
Input the new dataset contents.  Terminate
with an EOF or a line containing just a
dot (".").
include host brhost2
include path /home
.
.
.
.
Vertical ellipsis points in an example mean that information not directly related to the example has been omitted.
ob> lsvol --library lib1
Inventory of library lib1:
.
.
.
    in    dte:           vacant