Re: how to tell RMAN to look at different location for ARCH_LOG backup piece.

dominica_at_gmail.com wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I need to do a recover , not that urgent.
> (my version is 8.1.7.4 32 bit on unix , solaris)
>
>
> Basically, my production db is running fine except
> some users just want one table's information from dec,01,2005
> (they want to look at something on that day, long story).
>
> That table is like 100 million row on a 100 GIG tablespace ABC.
> I am going to use a different unix host (server DB9).
>
> The major method is to get back all the backed-up-pieces from TAPE and
> to a
> new filesystem with different mount point than the one that I backed-up
> from.
> That is all the confusion begin.
>
> I plan to copy the archive-log-in-backup-pieces and all the
> dbf's-backup-pieces from tape to some TEMP LOCATION in my new machine.
>
> My question is originally, the
> archive-log-backup-pieces are backed-up from
> /au3 from the REAL PRODUCTION MACHINE.
>
> now my new machine has
> /archive-log-temp3

Is the /au3 mount point really being used on your machine you are recovering on?

If not you can create a symbolic link

ln -s /archive-log-temp3 /au3 Received on Thu Jan 19 2006 - 08:33:27 CST