Re: RMAN - Recover the recovery catalog

From: Volker Hetzer <volker.hetzer_at_ieee.org>
Date: Tue, 24 Aug 2004 19:28:43 +0200
Message-ID: <cgftsc$a1n$1@nntp.fujitsu-siemens.com>

"Latyr" <latyr_dev-asupprimer-_at_hotmail.com> schrieb im Newsbeitrag news:41275f1a$0$26987$626a14ce_at_news.free.fr...
> Hi
>
> Talking with a friend of mine with some knowledge in Oracle, I have been
> quite surprise to learn that it is possible from Oracle9i to recover the
> RMAN catalog even if it lost completely (DRP).
>
> He told me that with the autobackup controlfile, I may be able to recreate
> the catalog as I can ask rman to recover from the autobackup control file
> and spfile, all the registered database and to recover as well my backup et
> backupset information.

Maybe he meant thata you can back up your catalog without resorting to another catalog.
You can back up any database without using a catalog. AFAIK recovery catalogues only come into their own when the requirements include huge recovery windows or centralized management of many databases.

Lots of Greetings!
Volker Received on Tue Aug 24 2004 - 12:28:43 CDT