RE: rman nocatalog - point in time recovery

From: Ruth Gramolini <rgramolini_at_tax.state.vt.us>
Date: Wed, 14 Jul 2004 08:40:57 -0400
Message-ID: <002001c4699f$cf4e53b0$8459699f@vttaxnet.tax.state.vt.us>

Sometimes I find it is just expedient to use sqlplus to open the database. Sometimes, there is no other way. Rman is still a work in progress and it has been seriously improved since the 8.0.5... days but when you are doing incomplete recovery and it seems to want a redo log instead of an archived log, then I have found, sqlplus recover the way you did it is the easiest way. Even Oracle support has told me this.

HTH,
Ruth

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[mailto:oracle-l-bounce_at_freelists.org]On Behalf Of Schauss, Peter Sent: Tuesday, July 13, 2004 4:44 PM
To: oracle-l_at_freelists.org
Subject: RE: rman nocatalog - point in time recovery

This may not be the cleanest solution, but it worked:

rman
run {
set until logseq=1235 thread =1;

allocate channel ch1 type disk;
allocate channel ch2 type disk;
allocate channel ch3 type disk;

restore database;
}
exit;

sqlplus internal

sqlplus> recover database until cancel using backup controlfile;
sqlplus> alter database open resetlogs;
sqlplus> exit;

Is there a better way to do this?

thanks,
Peter Schauss

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[mailto:oracle-l-bounce_at_freelists.org]On Behalf Of Schauss, Peter Sent: Tuesday, July 13, 2004 4:12 PM
To: Oracle-L (E-mail)
Subject: rman nocatalog - point in time recovery

Enviroment: Oracle 8.1.7.4 / AIX 5.2

Scenario:

• I have an rman backup (nocatalog) and a separate control file backup done at 11:00 pm.
• The database is in archivelog mode.
• At 11:00 am the next morning I have a failure which causes loss of the entire database.
• Archivelogs through 10:45 are intact. The last archive log is sequence 1234.
• I have the backup files created from the 11:00 pm rman backup in the directory to which they were backed up.
• I want to restore the database to the state it was in at 10:45 am by applying the redo logs through number 1234.

I restore my control files by copying them to the appropriate directories on the disk (e.g. /ora1/oradata/sid/control01.ctl ... /ora2/... /ora3/...).

I run the following commands in rman

run {

set until logseq=1234 thread=1;
allocate channel ch1 type disk;
allocate channel ch2 type disk;
allocate channel ch3 type disk;

restore database;
recover database;
alter database open resetlogs;
}

Oracle says:

RMAN-03002: failure during compilation of command
RMAN-03013: command type: set
RMAN-06003: ORACLE error from target database: RMAN-20206: log sequence not

found in the recovery catalog

What am I missing here?

Thanks,
Peter Schauss

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