Fw: RMAN Restore with Incremental
Date: Wed, 2 Apr 2008 09:13:10 -0700 (PDT)
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Sometimes an incremental backup will end up backing up the entire database. This is particularly true if you are not using a block change tracking file. In fact, if you are using retention criteria and the FRA you might well see the base level 0 GO AWAY because, according to the retention criteria, it is really no longer needed.
List the details of your 409400 backup contents. I bet you find all the datafiles in it.
RF
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- Original Message ---- From: Charlotte Hammond <charlottejanehammond_at_yahoo.com> To: oracle-l_at_freelists.org Sent: Wednesday, April 2, 2008 3:23:52 AM Subject: RMAN Restore with Incremental
Hi All,
I'm a bit confused by this RMAN behaviour. I have a full backup and a level 1 incremental a few days later. However if I restore (preview) it only attempts to use the level 1 (example below). Surely this is of no use without the preceeding full backup. What am I missing?
Thank you for any hints! (10.2.0.3 EE)
Charlotte
RMAN> list backup of database summary;
List of Backups
Key TY LV S Device Type Completion Time #Pieces #Copies Compressed Tag
------- -- -- - ----------- --------------- ------- ------- ---------- ---
397695 B F A DISK 27-MAR-08 1 1 YES
TAG20080327T132047
409400 B 1 A DISK 31-MAR-08 1 1 YES
TAG20080331T021633 RMAN> restore validate database;
Starting restore at 02-APR-08
using channel ORA_DISK_1
channel ORA_DISK_1: starting validation of datafile backupset channel ORA_DISK_1: reading from backup piece /oracle/FRA/TESTDB/backupset/2008_03_31/o1_mf_nnnd1_TAG20080331T021633_3z0gvkk3_.bkp channel ORA_DISK_1: restored backup piece 1 piece
handle=/oracle/FRA/TESTDB/backupset/2008_03_31/o1_mf_nnnd1_TAG20080331T021633_3z0gvkk3_.bkp tag=TAG20080331T021633
channel ORA_DISK_1: validation complete, elapsed time: 00:00:47 Finished restore at 02-APR-08
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