Re: starting archive log restore to *default* destination

On Tue, 1 Apr 2008 09:17:39 -0700 (PDT), joel garry <joel-garry_at_home.com> wrote:

>On Apr 1, 2:15šam, NetComrade <netcomr..._at_netscape.net> wrote:
>> Often the archive log destination is not really meant to be able to
>> hold a week worth of logs.
>>
>> How can we redirect media restore to some temporary mount?
>>
>> Alternatively, if I am just recovering a couple of blocks.. why can't
>> it read from NFS (where backups are) and not have to physically copy
>> all these data for a few 8K blocks (could certainly keep that in
>> memory as it goes through rman bakup sets)
>
>Version? ASM? OS? Catalog?
>
>You can do amazing things with links.
>
>O10 has copy and catalog commands.
>
>If you are on O9 and want to extract archive logs without RMAN, google
>for the secret metalink Note 60545.1. It shows some of the PL
>procedures that manipulate these things.
>
>Apologies if I didn't quite understand the question. Don't know about
>the second second question.

9i or 10g no ASM (well, we do have one RAC, but question is more general)
always using a remote RMAN Catalog Repository. The question was how I can 'stage' files as RMAN performs media recovery somewhere other than my archive destination I'll checkout the note, thnx.

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