Re: Using RMAN files to clone

JW wrote:
> When I used RMAN to backup to a mapped drive, it failed. It appeared
> that RMAN didn't know the existence of the mapped drive. I wonder if
> I can use this mapped drive to restore the database.

What if you start the local database service using a real domain user account instead of Local System? The theory is that although Local System is all-powerful, it can't go across hosts.

The remote mapped drive still may not work but the UNC may work. For instance, I can create a tablespace this way:

create tablespace ts datafile '\\192.168.10.3\SharedDocs\ts.dbf' size 512k;

where \\192.168.10.3\SharedDocs is a share on my second laptop. But I can't define the datafile as 'y:\ts.dbf' (Y: is my mapped drive for that share).

This stops working once I change my Oracle service to run as Local System.

Yong Huang Received on Thu Oct 05 2006 - 02:12:47 CDT