Script to find out Backups taken and their duration in last 24 hours

To get a picture of all the full or incremental backups taken along with the time it took, use the below script


select decode(BACKUP_TYPE, 'L', 'ARCH', 'D', 'DB', 'I', 'INC',
              'Unknown type='||BACKUP_TYPE) TYPE,
       to_char(a.start_time, 'DDMON HH24:MI') start_time,
       to_char(a.elapsed_seconds/60, '99.9')||' Min' DURATION,
       substr(handle, -35) handle,
       nvl(d.file#, l.sequence#) file#, nvl(d.blocks, l.blocks) blocks
from   SYS.V_$BACKUP_SET a, SYS.V_$BACKUP_PIECE b,
       SYS.V_$BACKUP_DATAFILE d, SYS.V_$BACKUP_REDOLOG l
where  a.start_time between sysdate-1 and sysdate
  and  a.SET_STAMP = b.SET_STAMP
  and  a.SET_STAMP = d.SET_STAMP(+)
  and  a.SET_STAMP = l.SET_STAMP(+)
order  by start_time, file#

This shows the backup of all datafiles and archive log files