Re: Problem with Whole database backup

[Quoted] Well, usually the catalog database is separate from your production databases.

Van

<woods_john_at_crane.navy.mil> wrote in message news:8oefsq$vfe$1_at_nnrp1.deja.com...
> I must be missing something, but when I follow the directions in the
> Oracle8i Recovery Manager User's Guide and Reference (p.5-3 thru 5-4),
> it just doesn't seem to make sense.
>
> Step 1: connect to target and catalog
> Step 2: Mount, but do not open the database.
> Step 3: Allocate one or more channels of type disk.
>
> I can connect to target and catalog while the database is open, but if
> I shutdown the db, then perform a 'startup mount', I can no longer
> connect to the catalog in rman. Assuming the database is down at the
> beginning of the process, how do you connect to the catalog?
>
> Any insights will be greatly appreciated.
>
> Thanks,
>
> John
>
>
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Received on Tue Aug 29 2000 - 01:02:07 CEST