Connect to Recovery Manager and Back Up

You can use the following procedure to backup database objects.

To connect to Recovery Manager at the command line and back up database objects

Log in on the computer on which the option is running. Use a user ID with administrator privileges.
From the Windows Start button menu, start a command prompt session.
Enter the following command:
```
rman nocatalog
```
The Recovery Manager starts in the command prompt window.
Enter the following commands to back up the database instance named test.
Note: In the following command, the @instance_name parameter is required only if you have multiple database instances.
```
connect target system/manager@test
RMAN> run {
```
The program provides numbered prompts for each of the following entries:
```
2> allocate channel dev1 type 'sbt_tape';
3> backup database format 'as_%s_%t';
4> release channel dev1;
5> }
```
The backup begins. The progress of the backup is displayed in the command prompt session. When the backup is complete, you can continue to work with RMAN, or you can exit the command prompt session.

Here is an example of a command prompt session that is connected to Recovery Manager:

After a backup job is done, you can check the job status in the Arcserve Backup activity log, or by viewing the Database Manager.