V$BACKUP_SET

V$BACKUP_SET displays information about backup sets from the control file. A backup set record is inserted after the backup set is successfully completed.


Column Datatype Description

RECID

NUMBER

Backup set record ID

STAMP

NUMBER

Backup set record stamp

SET_STAMP

NUMBER

Backup set stamp. The backup set stamp and count uniquely identify the backup set.

Primary key for the V$BACKUP_SET table, and the foreign key for the following tables: V$BACKUP_PIECE, V$BACKUP_DATAFILE, V$BACKUP_REDOLOG, V$BACKUP_CORRUPTION.

SET_COUNT

NUMBER

Backup set count. The backup set count is incremented by one every time a new backup set is started (if the backup set is never completed the number is "lost"). If the control file is re-created then the count is reset to 1. Therefore the count must be used with the stamp to uniquely identify a backup set.

Primary key for the V$BACKUP_SET table, and the foreign key for the following tables: V$BACKUP_PIECE, V$BACKUP_DATAFILE, V$BACKUP_REDOLOG, V$BACKUP_CORRUPTION

BACKUP_TYPE

VARCHAR2(1)

Type of files that are in this backup. If the backup contains archived redo logs, the value is L. If this is a data file full backup, the value is D. If this is an incremental backup, the value is I.

CONTROLFILE_INCLUDED

VARCHAR2(3)

Set to YES if there is a control file included in this backup set, otherwise set to NO

INCREMENTAL_LEVEL

NUMBER

Location where this backup set fits into the database's backup strategy. Set to NULL for full datafile, archivelog, controlfile, and spfile backups, set to 0 for incremental level 0 datafile backups, and set to 1 for incremental level 1 datafile backups.

PIECES

NUMBER

Number of distinct backup pieces in the backup set

START_TIME

DATE

Starting time

COMPLETION_TIME

DATE

Time that this backup set completed

ELAPSED_SECONDS

NUMBER

The number of elapsed seconds

BLOCK_SIZE

NUMBER

Block size of the backup set

INPUT_FILE_SCAN_ONLY

VARCHAR2(3)

YES indicates no actual backup is performed, but the data files are read. NO indicates a normal backup is performed.

KEEP

VARCHAR2(3)

(YES/NO) Indicates whether or not this backup set has a retention policy that is different than the value for the configure retention policy

KEEP_UNTIL

DATE

If KEEP_UNTIL_TIME is specified, this is the date after which the backup becomes obsolete. If this column is null, then the backup never expires.

KEEP_OPTIONS

VARCHAR2(11)

Lists additional retention options for this backup set. Possible values are:

LOGS - The logs need to recover this backup are kept

NOLOGS - The logs needed to recover this backup will not be kept

BACKUP_LOGS - An archive log backup exists to support this backup set

MULTI_SECTION

VARCHAR2(3)

Indicates whether or not this backup set is a multi-section backup. Valid values are YES and NO. A multi-section backup is a backup in which multiple backup pieces are produced independently in parallel by multiple channels.

FOR_XTTS

VARCHAR2(3)

Indicates whether this is a cross platform backup set:

  • YES: This is a cross platform backup set.

  • NO: This is not a cross platform backup set.

SAME_ENDIAN

VARCHAR2(3)

If the value of FOR_XTTS is YES, then this column indicates whether the backup set has the same endianess as the current database (YES) or not (NO); otherwise NULL.

INC_DMPFILE

VARCHAR2(3)

If the value of FOR_XTTS is YES, then this column indicates whether the backup set includes a Data Pump export file of the backed up data files (YES) or not (NO), otherwise NULL.

CON_ID

NUMBER

The ID of the container to which the data pertains. Possible values include:

  • 0: This value is used for rows containing data that pertain to the entire CDB. This value is also used for rows in non-CDBs.

  • 1: This value is used for rows containing data that pertain to only the root

  • n: Where n is the applicable container ID for the rows containing data