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Scheduling the Daily Backup—UNIX and Linux The following procedurę uses the

cron utility to schedulc daily databasc backups at 2:00 a.m.

To schedule the Oracle-suggested disk backup strategy:

1.    Ensure that you are logged in to the database host as a user who is a member of the OSBACKUPDBA operating system group (typically the backupdba group). The cron job will run as this host user.

2.    Start a text editor, and create and save a file with the following contents into your home directory. Name the file .crontab. (Notę the period at the front of the file name.)

MAILTO=[e-mail] # MI HH DD MM DAY CMD 00 2 * * * full-script-pałh