Oracle-L: Rman and controlfile backups.

From: Lyndon Tiu <ltiu_at_alumni.sfu.ca>
Date: Tue, 04 Mar 2003 09:35:34 -0800
Message-ID: <F001.0055FB0B.20030304093534@fatcity.com>

RMAN on Oracle 8.1.7
Create a latest backupset using:

rman nocatalog

run
{
allocate channel ch1 type disk;
backup database;
backup current controlfile;
backup archivelog all;
}

3) Delete all *.dbf, control and archive log files (simulate a catastrophic database loss).

4) Restore controlfile from the lastest rman backupset using the pl/sql script available in the Oracle 8i Recovery Manager User Guide and Reference.

5) Now controlfile is restored and I startup the database nomount.

6) Attempting to restore database using rman results in rman saying that the latest backup set in unavailable.

7) This is because I used the controlfile as the rman repository. And when I back-uped the controlfile, the controlfile did not yet have the updated backupset information.

8) How do you solve this problem?

Thanks.

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