Re: RMAN - MIracle

RMAN is infamous for giving completely misleading error like error writing to a datafile while the root cause was error reading from tape or something like that.
Check whether there were any other errors earlier during duplicate.

Cheers,
Alex

On 21/03/2009, at 1:56 AM, Howard Latham wrote:

> Redhat Linux 10g
>
> Ran a duplicate database for standby - which took 8 hours - it
> failed claiming one of the files at the end my 300g
> database needed recovery - Doh!
>
> Anyway ran the same script again. It said all files already restored
> and mounted the standby happily and
> started applying archived logs from the other box -
>
> funny eh? glad I didn't delete all the files and start again!
>
> So if at first you don't succeed try once more - made my Friday!
>
> --
> Howard A. Latham
>
>

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