Re: Restore Hot Backup to Another IDentical Machine

1. Your target machine needs to be in archivelog mode during recovery. You can turn archivelog off after that.
2. I don't know why rman can't find control files. Check rman catalog, if it contains control files.

In article <9575f9$k9f$1_at_nnrp1.deja.com>,   sboucher_at_my-deja.com wrote:
> I am running Oracle8i on NT4, SP6.
>
> We perform hot backup on our production server with archivelog. I need
> to practice recovery technique so I have a database setup identical to
> our production DB but running in noarchivelog on a differnet server. A
> database backup has never been performed on the test server.
>
> I am having trouble applying my backup from production to the test
> server. When using RMAN, i get an error - cannot find copy of control
> files.
>
> The names and locations of the control files are identical to
> production. Does this problem have something to do with the test
> server being in noarchivelog and the production being in archivelog?
>
> I simply want to apply backup from production to test to 1.) practice
> recovery technique and 2.) refresh the data on the test server. No
> need to be point in time recovery, just as recent as the last backup.
>
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