How to Exclude Tablespace from Rman Backup ?

Sometimes we may want to omit a specified tablespace from part of the regular backup schedule. Suppose in a tablespace the data don't change or the tablespace contains test data only or sometimes a scenario may occur when we are clonning the database using the rman backup where we do not need all the schemas . In such cases, either we might change our backup strategy or skip the certain tablespace in the database. To overcome this type of issue, we can configure the exclude option to exclude the specified tablespace from the Backup Database command . Though we can generally skip the tablespace during the Backup Database command but only when the tablespace is offline or readonly .The exclusion condition applies to any data files that we add to this tablespace in the future. Below are the steps to configure the Exclude option C:\> rman target / Recovery Manager: Release 11.2.0.1.0 - Production on Wed Dec 28 18:58:05 2011 Copyright (c) 1982, 2009, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. connected to target database: NOIDA (DBID=1523131116) RMAN> configure exclude for tablespace "EXAMPLE" ; Tablespace EXAMPLE will be excluded from future whole database backups new RMAN configuration parameters are successfully stored To check this parameter , use the below command RMAN> show exclude ; RMAN configuration parameters for database with db_unique_name NOIDA are: CONFIGURE EXCLUDE FOR TABLESPACE 'EXAMPLE';

If "exclude" option is configured , even then we can backup the excluded tablespsace by explicitly specifying them in a Backup command or by specifying the NOEXCLUDE option on a "Backup Database" command as RMAN> backup database noexclude ;or RMAN> backup tablespace example ; Starting backup at 29-DEC-11 using channel ORA_DISK_1 channel ORA_DISK_1: starting full datafile backup set channel ORA_DISK_1: specifying datafile(s) in backup set input datafile file number=00005 name=C:\APP\NEERAJS\ORADATA\NOIDA\EXAMPLE01.DBF

channel ORA_DISK_1: starting piece 1 at 29-DEC-11 channel ORA_DISK_1: finished piece 1 at 29-DEC-11 piece handle=E:\RMAN_BACKUP\0UMVEC3G_1_1 tag=TAG20111229T150832 comment=NONE channel ORA_DISK_1: backup set complete, elapsed time: 00:00:07 Finished backup at 29-DEC-11 We can disable the exclusion feature tablespace example as : RMAN> configure exclude for tablespace example example ; Tablespace EXAMPLE will be included in future whole database backups old RMAN configuration parameters are successfully deleted RMAN> show exclude ; RMAN configuration parameters for database with db_unique_name NOIDA are : RMAN configuration has no stored or default parameters In order to skip READONLY and OFFLINE tablespace we can issue backup database command as, RMAN>backup database skip readonly, skip offline ;