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This document provides a format description for backup file naming conventions, listing the meaning and purpose of various percentage code identifiers (%a through %Y) that can be used to represent unique identifying information in database backup file names such as the database name, date, log/piece number, and other details.

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Formats Oracle

This document provides a format description for backup file naming conventions, listing the meaning and purpose of various percentage code identifiers (%a through %Y) that can be used to represent unique identifying information in database backup file names such as the database name, date, log/piece number, and other details.

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Format Description

%a Specifies the activation id number of the database.


%A Specifies the activation id number of the database completed 0
%c Specifies the copy number of the backup piece within a set of duplexed backup pieces. The
maximum value is 256.
%d Specifies the name of the database
%D Specifies the current day of the month in format DD
%e Specifies the archived log sequence number
%f Specifies the absolute file number
%F Combines the DBID, day, month, year, and sequence into a unique and repeatable generated
name
%h Specifies the archived redo log thread number
%I Specifies the DBID
%M Specifies the month in format MM
%n Specifies the name of the database. padded on the right with x characters to a total length of
eight characters.
%N Specifies the tablespace name.
%p Specifies the piece number within the backup set
%r Resetlogs ID
%s Specifies the backup set number
%S Specifies the backup set number completed 0
%t Specifies the backup set time stamp.
%T Specifies the year, month, and day in format YYYYMMDD
%u Specifies an 8-character name constituted by compressed representations of the backup set or
image copy number.
%U Specifies a system-generated unique file name.
%Y Specifies the year in this format: YYYY.

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