Re: RMAN Question.

From: Jerome Vitalis <vitalismanREMOVETHAT_at_gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 03 Oct 2006 21:51:43 +0200
Message-ID: <4522bf48$0$166$a3f2974a@nnrp1.numericable.fr>

News wrote:
> Correct, its Oracle Version 9.2.0.2. It was at a customer site of a cots
> product where the vendor setup the database & backup procedures. I won't say
> the vendor name. Yeah, they found out the hard way. No catalog, only backup
> control file which was taken before the backup piece was created for
> archived log files on disk. Since there is no catalog and no later backup
> control file the archivelog backup piece on disk is unusable because there
> is no record of it in the control file copy. Was hoping someone knew of a
> way to basically "catalog" that backup piece into the controlfile copy. No
> such luck.
>
> Thanks, mim

Contact Oracle and open a SR. They might be able to guide you through an "unsupported" cataloging method (by means of dbms_backup_restore).

Jerome Received on Tue Oct 03 2006 - 14:51:43 CDT