Re: rman question

why dont you simply try

--> rman nocatalog

then, all informations about the backup are written in the controlfiles; and you have only to backup the controlfiles after backing up the database?!

greetings
Rüdiger
(rjs_at_berlin.de)

Simon Cunningham <cs40_at_gre.ac.uk> wrote:
>
>is it possible when using rman to have the recovery catalog database on
>personal edition816 which also is the repository for enterprise manager
>2.1 and the target databases as 8.1.6 ent server edition. I ask this as
>
>I have installed on my machine (nt4 client) an oracle client with my
>development tools installed in one directory with the listner files
>pointing to my target databases. I also have oem installed in another
>directory and finally personal edition in another directory which holds
>the repository for oem and I would like to store the rcovery catalog in
>this same database.
>I have created an account for rman on the personal database but when it
>
>came to connecting to recovery catalog I had the error
>RMAN.DBMS_RCVCAT database is too old.
>when I installed the recovery catalog I had to use the script from my
>clinet installation.
>
>Basically can I use personal edition too use as my recovery database???
>Or would it be better to instal a small ent edition on the machine and
>use that to hold my oem repositiory and recovery catalog????
>
>thanks in advance
>
>
>
 

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