An oldie but a goodie. How, in Oracle 11.2.0.4 RMAN do I add date to a TAG? I've found discussion on

So what I want is, within the RMAN job to have the date show up so I can see it when I do "LIST BACKUP SUMMARY".

Here's the goal -

run{

backup as compressed backupset incremental level 1 tag MERCQC_DIFF_$DATE

format '/u08/oradata/rman_backups/mercqc/diff/mercqc_%t_%U.bkp'

database;

BACKUP CURRENT CONTROLFILE;

BACKUP SPFILE;

}

Here's what I've tried -

1)export date outside of RMAN & pass it through

#!/bin/sh

export TODAY=`date +%m%d%y`

export TAG=MERCQC_ARCH_$TODAY

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rman target / nocatalog using $TAG

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run{

backup as compressed backupset incremental level 1 tag $TAG

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