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Home -> Community -> Mailing Lists -> Oracle-L -> RE: backing up rman catalog for disaster recovery
Paula,
I do this in my shell script *every* time and AT THE END OF EACH BACKUP I run...FULL, ARCH ONLY, etc. Even if I have a local Recovery Catalog.
Effectively I now have a current controlfile (Recovery Catalog so to speak) on my remote server or at least a copy on the local server. A current controlfile *COPY* is better (to me) than any Recovery Catalog.
NOTE: This is NOT an RMAN *backup* of my controlfile (totally useless), but rather a *COPY* of my controlfile. Meaning it can be used without RMAN; I cna $>cp controlfile.bkp controlfile01.ctl with this COPY.
A current (after backup taken) controlfile *is* a catalog...I now have a "catalog" backup with the same information that is in the Recovery Catalog. :o)
Even when I have a full blown Recovery Catalog I have never (had to) use it or restore it to another server...this controlfile COPY is always my first and faster option to get my DB up on a remote server in a disaster.
Try it...mount this controlfile (with another instance) and do RMAN list backup without connection to the real Recovery Catalog.
hth
Chris Marquez
Oracle DBA
#!/bin/sh
#
...
# - Backup controlfile and spfile.
# - Even though you have one in the back it IS BETTER to have one all by itself.
# - THE ONE WITH THE BACKUP DOES *NOT* HAVE CURRENT BACKUP INFO!!!!!
run {allocate channel c4 type disk;
copy current controlfile to '${bkp_dir}/${date_time}_${DATABASE_NAME}_controlfile.ctl.bkp';
# - 8i
# sql "alter database backup controlfile to trace";
# - 9i
sql "alter database backup controlfile to trace as ''${bkp_dir}/${date_time}_${ORACLE_SID}_trace.ctl.bkp''reuse";
release channel c4;
...
scp ${bkp_dir}/${date_time}_${DATABASE_NAME}_controlfile.ctl.bkp oracle@${Node3}:${bkp_dir_Node3}/ >> $log_file 2>&1
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From: oracle-l-bounce_at_freelists.org on behalf of Paula_Stankus_at_doh.state.fl.us
Sent: Wed 5/25/2005 4:48 AM
To: Paula_Stankus_at_doh.state.fl.us; rgramolini_at_tax.state.vt.us; all_about_oracle_at_hotpop.com; oracle-l_at_freelists.org
Subject: RE: backing up rman catalog for disaster recovery
I am setting up a disaster recovery site and I was thinking about the best way to do this.
My theory is that I would like to not just use another recovery catalog on the DR site to backup my primary catalog but to somehow keep these catalogs constantly in-synch so when I do need to do complete recovery and only have the secondary rman catalog available - I wouldn't have to recover the catalog as all of the previous backups would be found there.
So....should I do this using Oracle Data Guard on my disaster recovery site catalog or backup rman then restore as my first procedure? Any advice? =20
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