Re: Using RMAN files to clone

On 5 Oct 2006 00:12:47 -0700, yong321_at_yahoo.com wrote:

>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

Thanks Yong for the info. I will give it a try. JW Received on Fri Oct 06 2006 - 19:38:51 CDT