Re: RMAN recovery from tape with automatic channels

On 3/20/07, Robert Freeman <robertgfreeman_at_yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> This is a restore you are trying to do, not a backup.... So Fuad's
> example doesn't quite work.
>

Ah, I didn't fully read his example and assumed he was trying a restore. Backups are not a problem.

It would appear that the RMAN control file or the recovery catalog thinks
> that the backup you need to restore is sitting on disk somewhere and not
> tape. ....
>
> do the following command:
>
> list backup of database summary; Is the device type DISK?? If it is, thats
> why it's trying to goto disk to get those backupset pieces. How did these
> get moved to tape? Manually or via RMAN?
>

I can run that command in the morning.
However, these backups were all made directly to tape via RMAN.

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