OCI DB Autobackup Configuration on Exacs using bkup_api

we can use bkup_api to configure db autobackup in exacs machines , Below are the steps to schedule autobackups 

1.Generate Sample Config file:

As a root user generate config file using  get config

# /var/opt/oracle/bkup_api/bkup_api get config --file=/home/oracle/exadb01_oss_bkp.conf --dbname=exadb01

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-> Action : get_config

-> logfile: /var/opt/oracle/log/exadb01/bkup_api_log/bkup_api_33d2001b_20210328113456.136826.log

File /home/oracle/exadb01_oss_bkp.conf created

#

2.Modify Config File:

# cat /home/oracle/exadb01_oss_bkp.conf

####

#### This is the Backup config for the DB : exadb01

#### Please refer to <link> for more details about each parameter

####

#### Instance Level Parameters ####

# Enable automatic backup. Can be set to yes or no

bkup_cron_entry=yes

# Enable automatic cleanup of archive logs when backups are not

# configured using tooling. Can be set to yes or no

bkup_archlog_cron_entry=yes

#Enable backup of config files. Can be set to yes or no

bkup_cfg_files=yes

# Time of the daily incremental backup. The format must be hh:mm

bkup_daily_time=0:11

# Archive log frequency in minutes. Valid values are 15,20,30,60,120....

bkup_archlog_frequency=30

#### This section is applicable for configuring backups to Disk  ####

#Enable backup to disk. Can be set to yes or no

bkup_disk=no

#Recovery window of disk. Must be between 1 and 14

bkup_disk_recovery_window=

#### This section is applicable for configuring backups to OSS  ####

# Enable backup to oss container. Can be set to yes or no

bkup_oss=yes

## Below parameters are required if backups to OSS are configured

# Recovery window of oss. Must be between 1 and 90

bkup_oss_recovery_window=15

# OSS url. Example:  https://storage.oraclecorp.com/v1/Storage-test/test

bkup_oss_url=

# OSS username

bkup_oss_user=

# OSS password

#bkup_oss_passwd=

#*(Will be deprecated, please use bkup_l0_day) Default day on which level0 backups are taken for OSS

bkup_oss_l0_day=

#Default day on which level0 backups are taken

bkup_l0_day=Sun

#### This section is applicable for configuring backups to ZDLRA  ####

# Enable backup to ZDLRA. Can be set to yes or no

bkup_zdlra=no

# ZDLRA url

bkup_zdlra_url=

# ZDLRA username

bkup_zdlra_user=

# ZDLRA password

#bkup_zdlra_passwd=

#### This section is applicable for configuring backups to NFS  ####

#Enable backup to nfs. Can be set to yes or no

bkup_nfs=no

#Recovery window of nfs backups. Must be between 1 and 90

bkup_nfs_recovery_window=30

#NFS mount point location

bkup_nfs_loc=

#####RMAN custom configuration such as compression, section size #########

#compression, valid values are none,basic,low,medium,high

bkup_rman_compression=low

#If custom section size is preferred, set the following two values.

#bkup_set_section_size to yes and a valid bkup_section_size.

bkup_set_section_size=

#section size value in G, example 20G

bkup_section_size=

#parallelism, number of channels per node to be used by RMAN

#set value to default for using recommended values based on service, operation

bkup_channels_node=default

# To turn on/off Backup encryption. Valid values True/False

bkup_encryption=true

#### This section is applicable when using a rman catalog ####

# Enables RMAN catalog. Can be set to yes or no.

bkup_use_rcat=no

## Below parameters are required if rman catalog is enabled

# RMAN catalog user

bkup_rcat_user=

# RMAN catalog password

#bkup_rcat_passwd=

# RMAN catalog conn string

bkup_rcat_conn=

3.Config or Update backup schedule:

run Set config to scheduled backups using updated config details

#/var/opt/oracle/bkup_api/bkup_api set config --file=/home/oracle/exadb01_oss_bkp.conf --dbname=exadb01

4.Check config status:

# /var/opt/oracle/bkup_api/bkup_api configure_status --dbname=exadb01

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-> Action : configure_status

-> logfile: /var/opt/oracle/log/exadb01/bkup_api_log/bkup_api_8bbe7547_20210328113514.050123.log

API::ERROR configure_status will be deprecated. To get operation progress,

please execute bkup_api --uuid <uuid generated by set config> --dbname=<dbname>

* Last registered operation: 2021-03-23 18:03:09 UTC

* Configure backup status: finished

**************************************************

* API History: API steps

  API:: NEW PROCESS 204647

*

* RETURN CODE:0

##################################################

5.validate Backup schedule in /etc/crontab

cat /etc/crontab

SHELL=/bin/bash

PATH=/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin

MAILTO=""

# For details see man 4 crontabs

# Example of job definition:

# .---------------- minute (0 - 59)

# |  .------------- hour (0 - 23)

# |  |  .---------- day of month (1 - 31)

# |  |  |  .------- month (1 - 12) OR jan,feb,mar,apr ...

# |  |  |  |  .---- day of week (0 - 6) (Sunday=0 or 7) OR sun,mon,tue,wed,thu,fri,sat

# |  |  |  |  |

# *  *  *  *  * user-name  command to be executed

11 0 * * * oracle /var/opt/oracle/bkup_api/bkup_api bkup_start --cron --dbname=exadb01

26,56 * * * * oracle /var/opt/oracle/bkup_api/bkup_api bkup_archlogs --cron --dbname=exadb01