Oracle Database – Recovery Manager (RMAN) supports binary compression using one of the following compression levels HIGH, MEDIUM, BASIC and LOW the recommended level for cloud backups is MEDIUM

The following RMAN commands configure compression using the MEDIUM algorithm

RMAN> CONFIGURE COMPRESSION ALGORITHM ‚MEDIUM‘;
RMAN> CONFIGURE DEVICE TYPE sbt BACKUP TYPE TO COMPRESSED BACKUPSET;

Backups must be in the form of backup sets not image copies

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