Recover after rman restore asks for a VERY OLD archive log

From: Schauss, Peter <peter.schauss_at_ngc.com>
Date: Mon, 8 Oct 2007 10:21:33 -0500
Message-ID: <CD9150D80CFCFB42BC73C40791C1E019993B00@XMBIL112.northgrum.com>

This is Oracle 10.2.0.2 on HP-UX B.11.23.

I have an rman backup which was done in "nocatalog mode" and am attempting to restore this database on another server. The backup was done three days ago. I put the control files, int.ora, and password files where the database expected them to be and used the following script to restore:

#!/bin/ksh
#
export ORACLE_SID=peregrine
rman target sys/password nocatalog <<EOF startup mount pfile='/opt/oracle/admin/dbname/pfile/initdbname.ora'; run{

allocate channel ch1 type disk;
allocate channel ch2 type disk;
allocate channel ch3 type disk;
allocate channel ch4 type disk;
allocate channel ch5 type disk;
allocate channel ch6 type disk;

restore database;
}
exit
EOF The script runs without errors, but when I give the command:

> recover database until cancel using backup controlfile;

It asks me for an archive log which was created back in March when I first created the database.

What is going on here?

Thanks,
Peter Schauss

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