RMAN :: Change Database Name Control Files After Restore
Jul 12, 2012
I have restored database with the name DB to another database called DB01
it is in STARTED status (not mounted) and it seems I can not change the name if it is not mounts, and I can not mount it because of the name, how to solve this issue if possible? I have RMAN full backup from DB on my current server which hosting the database DB01 the initdb01.ora is ready and configured with DB01
what can I do next
ORA-01103: database name 'DB' in control file is not 'DB01'
I had a database on an old P4 running but the motherboard got fried. I was able to recover all the data files (.ctl and *.dbf) plus the redo logs (.log). There is no export or backup taken - I have old ones, but I need to recover the latest which only existed in the data files.
I now have Oracle installed on a new P5 machine and was wondering if it is possible to use these data files in the new database? If so, how do I go by restoring the data files?
The controlfiles were corrupted due to some issue. So, I had to restore the recent backed up control file and then restore the database.
The weird thing which I have noticed is that. I tried backing up Yesterday's Control file. So, I would say that the backup pieces it should pick should be from yesterday. however, the backup pieces are getting restored from last week's backup.
I've got a legacy SAP system with oracle 8i on Tru64. No changes at all are made but for legal reasons we have to keep it up and running.
we currently do a full backup monthly by shutting down oracle and doing a backup of all the files to tape and that takes around 12 hours.
If I stop doing the full backup and I only backup the control file and the archived redo log files every month and I had to restore the full database years from now, would I be able to restore the database using the last full monthly backup and use the latest control file and archived redo log files?
I have installed oracle 11.2 on virtual machine and made two copy of this vm i.e vm1 and vm2...i have taken fullbackup with rman on vm1 and autobackup of control file.Now i want to restore this backup on vm2, for this i have configured channel and other setting. run following command
catalog start with '\server3database_backup manC-3507808503-20130531-00';
"C-3507808503-20130531-00" is the name of control file autobackup.
RESTORE CONTROLFILE ;
it gives me error RMAN-06496: must use the TO clause when the database is mounted or open...then i use following command
RESTORE CONTROLFILE to 'C:oracleAdministratororadataslate';
then it gives me error RMAN-06024: no backup or copy of the control file found to restore...how to restore control file to vm2
I am having a issue, we are trying to restore our db from control files using Symantec Backup exec, but job fails giving me error go to table spaces select all table spaces and unchecked roll forward.
i am unable to find way to uncheck the table spaces. Here is the complete description.
Cause
The system catalog tablespace "syscatspace" contains all of the system catalog information for the tables. Syscatspace needs to be rolled forward first, and then the other tablespaces must be rolled forward.
Solution
Workaround:
When the restore operation is run from a tablespace level backup, perform the rollforward for the syscatspace tablespace first and then for other tablespaces.
Execute the rollforward operation as a DBA operation. The sequence of the recovery process should be as follows:
1. Select all tablespaces, uncheck the rollforward option and run the restore job. 2. Run the rollforward operation as a DBA initiated operation:
rollforward syscatspace to point in time / end of logs. e.g. db2 => rollforward database UEXIT to end of logs and complete Tablespace (SYSCATSPACE) online
3. Perform rollforward of all other tablespaces.
e.g. db2 => rollforward database UEXIT to end of logs and complete tablespace (SYSTOO LSPACE,USERSPACE1) online
Refer to IBM DB2 documentation for more information on DBA-initiated operations.
I was carrying out an experiment in order to crash the database and recover it.
The database was running, I moved the control file to another location and to my surprise the database was still running. I tried issuing checkpoint and transaction but it didn't affect database operations. I tried doing log switch. It completed successfully. According to my understanding and Oracle Certification books database was supposed to crash. But it didn't.
I tried this not only on RHEL, Windows XP but also in Solaris 5.10. The database version is Oracle 10.2.0.4 Standard Edition.
We have Oracle 10.2.0.3 database installed on Itanium server.
1. One day we found some packages got invalid & not compiling at all with error – ORA-00600: internal error code, arguments: [4097], [], [], [], [], [], [], [].
2. Then we successfully restored the database from old RMAN backup of previous date that caused this error.
3. After 2 days again we found the same error in alert_prd log - ORA-00600: internal error code, arguments: [ORA-00600: internal error code, arguments: [4097], [], [], [], [], [], [], [] ORA-06512: at "SYS.DBMS_STATS", line 19089 ], [], [], [], [], [], [], []
4. Then for testing we exported database using exp command & found 3 tables are not exporting because of data block corruption issue.
5. Then we truncated the data from all 3 tables and then able to export successfully.
6. After all this we manually run SYS.DMS_STATS job but found same error logged in prd_alert log.
This looks like, still database block corruption issue is there & we are unable to cure it 100% This is a production system & in very critical state now.
We have 11gR2 2 node RAC on Linux. ASM and OMF is used for database. The database on it is backed up using RMAN. We want to test the RMAN backup by restoring it to a new database on same server.
i was worked on oracle 11g.1, oracle data miner 11.1.0.4, sql developer 3.
unfortunately, after finishing my tables and models ,the hard disk damaged and was replaced with other.the oracle setup was not on system partition,it was on D:/ and i had windows backup for C, D partition. i restored oracle partition D which contains old oracle files and i installed oracle again but on partition F.
I'm using Oracle Standard edition 11gR2, actually that's why I'm posting this thread because I can't use TRANSPORT TABLESPACE feature.
I need to restore and recover two tablespaces, backed up in source database in another database. The destination db has been duplicated from the source db a couple of days ago so the structure is identical.
I cannot use Data Pump on this specific tablespace, because it causes some strange behavior in our application. So I took a backup from tablespaces and now I'm looking for a solution to restore and recover it in another db.
Is there any command to restore a tablespace from a specific file? I googled a lot and no luck so far..
P.S: I use controlfile instead of recovery catalog.
I am trying to setup my environment to prepare for hands on DBA exercises from an OCM handbook for 10g -OCM:Oracle Database 10g Administrator Certified Master Exam Guide
I need access to the following files gc_10205_part1of2.zip, gc_10205_part2of2.zip for 32 bit linux
Apparently the above along with other Grid software was once attainable from the link below but sometime between this year and the last Oracle decided to remove this and other software from public access. URL.....
I doubt Oracle will hear my plea - educational purposes only - so given I want access to the software only.
How one should know whether RMAN is using target database control file or using separate catalog database. Also what one should do if he dont have catalog users credentials.
I have taken full backup of database plus archivelog. Then copied them to new server..I want the complete procedure to restore the database on new location.
i have the performed level 0 rman backup on 15th feb 2013, and after that i have incremental 1 and archives and controlfile backup. Before this no backup is the database.
Now i want to restore it to 12th feb 2013.so is there any ways to restore the database to that point time.can we restore controlfile to point in time.
How to restore database if rman catalog corrupted and we we dont have bacup of catalog db ..all the backup info are stored in catalog db for prod databases.
I am trying to restore 11gr2 database to point in time. using following steps:
Control files are fine, that are not restored.
RMAN> run { set until time "to_time('2012-12-13 12:12:00','YYYY-MM-DD HH24:MI:SS')"; } RMAN> restore database; RMAN> recover database; RMAN> alter database open;
Here my problem is it is restore complete data what ever i was having, but i don't was it, i has to restore up to specified time only.
We want to keep the Guaranteed restore point for week but unfortunately we don't have enough flash space in the server. Is it possible to backup the flashback log(restore point logs) through rman and send bkp file to tape? how to restore the database in new server until Guaranteed restore point.
We have a host for restore purposes. We execute monthly or quarterly restore operations to verify that I am able to restore a subset of the data in the given amount of time or to other purposes. I have a automated script to Clone the Database, but to Clone Database we need remove the old database from ASM before start this operation. I want remove only Database files and keep the configuration (such as oratab/network/ocr and so on).
Question: There is a easy way to remove these files without connect on ASM or by using DBCA?
I have oracle 10g installed on my system and name of the database is "ORCL" for which I have schedule the incremental backup everyday. Mentioned below are the steps followed
*************PARAMETERS TO BE CHANGED****************** configure channel 1 device type disk format '\192.16.17.140dbbackups192.16.17.152oracle_rman_backup_incrementalstd_%U'; configure channel 2 device type disk format '\192.16.17.140dbbackups192.16.17.152oracle_rman_backup_incrementalstd_%U'; CONFIGURE CONTROLFILE AUTOBACKUP FORMAT FOR DEVICE TYPE DISK TO '\192.16.17.140dbbackups192.16.17.152oracle_rman_backup_incrementalcntrl_%U'; CONFIGURE RETENTION POLICY TO REDUNDANCY 7; CONFIGURE CONTROLFILE AUTOBACKUP ON; *******************************************************
*******COMMAND FOR THE CONNECTING TO RMAN************** rman LOG = \192.16.17.140dbbackups192.16.17.152oracle_rman_backup_incremental rmanlog_%date:~4,2%-%date:~7,2%-%date:~10%.txt APPEND CONNECT TARGET SYS/ORACLE@ORCL *******************************************************
********INCREMENTAL BACKUP COMMAND********************* RUN { BACKUP INCREMENTAL LEVEL 1 FOR RECOVER OF COPY WITH TAG 'incr_backup' DATABASE; BACKUP ARCHIVELOG ALL DELETE INPUT; } ********************************************************************
Now I want to restore this backup to some other system with new database. How to do this recovery to some other database on new system.
We had a server that crashed and died holding an Oracle database.Lucky us that we have full server cold backups.
I can get a restore of all the .dbf and .ctl files to a new server aswell as the pfile.Previously when i have done restores i have had the database up first and done
ALTER DATABASE BACKUP CONTROL FILE TO TRACE;
I would then delete the redo logs, tempfile and controlfiles and recreate using the tracefile.How do i go about bringing up the database without this tracefile. Do i just keep the controlfiles, temp file and redo logs and just attempt to startup? I believe i can keep all the paths the same that were on the other server.
I have a problem with my control file [URL].........
What I did, I have a duplicate of the database with the invalid control file, let's call it DUMDB. I am using my control file and no recovery-catalog-db.
I recreated the control file. Now everything is working fine, new backups can be taken, restores can be made. I just need to restore a backup tagged with "LASTDEV". The control file for this backup is the invalid one. So I need a restore WITHOUT restoring the control file.
using target database control file instead of recovery catalog
List of Backup Sets =================== BS Key Type LV Size Device Type Elapsed Time Completion Time ------- ---- -- ---------- ----------- ------------ --------------- 1 Full 2.77G DISK 00:00:00 26-AUG-11 BP Key: 1 Status: AVAILABLE Compressed: YES Tag: LASTDEV Piece Name: /u03/flash_recovery_area/DUMDB/backupset/o1_mf_nnndf_LASTDEV_75fmkllw_.bkp
List of Datafiles in backup set 1 =========================== File LV Type Ckp SCN Ckp Time Name ---- -- ---- ---------- --------- ---- 1 Full 63166185 26-AUG-11 /u02/oradata/dumdb/system01.dbf 2 Full 63166185 26-AUG-11 /u02/oradata/dumdb/sysaux01.dbf 3 Full 63166185 26-AUG-11 /u02/oradata/dumdb/undotbs01.dbf 5 Full 63166185 26-AUG-11 /u02/oradata/dumdb/stdtbs01.dbf 6 Full 63166185 26-AUG-11 /u02/oradata/dumdb/users.dbf
CODERMAN> crosscheck backupset 1;
using channel ORA_DISK_1 crosschecked backup piece: found to be 'AVAILABLE' backup piece handle=/u03/flash_recovery_area/DUMDB/backupset/o1_mf_nnndf_LASTDEV_75fmkllw_.bkp RECID=1 STAMP=761603187 Crosschecked 1 objects
RMAN-00571: =========================================================== RMAN-00569: =============== ERROR MESSAGE STACK FOLLOWS =============== RMAN-00571: =========================================================== RMAN-03002: failure of restore command at 09/11/2011 20:32:25 RMAN-06026: some targets not found - aborting restore RMAN-06023: no backup or copy of datafile 6 found to restore RMAN-06023: no backup or copy of datafile 5 found to restore RMAN-06023: no backup or copy of datafile 3 found to restore RMAN-06023: no backup or copy of datafile 2 found to restore RMAN-06023: no backup or copy of datafile 1 found to restore
This is exactly the same message if you do "RESTORE DATABASE FROM TAG='NONEXISTENTDUMMYTAGXXXX'" Why can the data files not be found even if they are listed in the backup?
--check that it is in archivelog mode SQL> archive log list
-- the data files that will need to be backup by OS command SQL> select sum(bytes) from dba_data_files; SQL> select name from v$datafile;
-- note archivelog sequence before starting the hot backup (need to back the archivelog generated during the backup) SQL> select thread#, max (sequence#) from v$log group by thread# order by thread#;
-- begin the backup SQL> alter database begin backup;
-- use OS command to copy the datafiles
-- remember to end the backup mode SQL> alter database end backup;
-- archive the current online redo log files SQL> alter system archive log current;
-- REMEBER to note the MAXIMM online-redo sequence number select thread#, max (sequence#)from v$log group by thread# order by thread#;
-- backup the control files SQL> alter database backup controlfile to '/oradump/hbackup/O11R2/controlbk.ctl' reuse;
-- backup any archive-redo logd generated during the backup -- select from the v$archived_log mode -- anything thing that appear under this view is safe to backup as long you don't backup the current archive log file that is being written to.simulated a scenario, if 1 of my multiplex control is damage due to media failure ( i just delete it, seem like i got to shutdown first before i can delete it, using window bases oracle, not too sure linux allow you to delete the control file like this)
To what i understand one can restore a missing control file if you have multiplex it. so I did this :
-- while it is being down, i use OS command to copy a good copy of the control file to the missing controlfile location + name.
-- startup
Total System Global Area 535662592 bytes Fixed Size 1384760 bytes Variable Size 243273416 bytes Database Buffers 285212672 bytes Redo Buffers 5791744 bytes ORA-00214: control file 'C:ORACLEXEAPPORACLEORADATAXERENAME_CONTROL01.DBF' version 9539 inconsistent with file 'C:ORACLEXEAPPORACLEORADATAXERENAME_CONTROL.DBF' version 9533I google abit and it mention ,
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> You have tried to move one or more copies of control file at the different location when Oracle database was up and running. You have tried to restore from database backup but your backup has not taken properly. It may taken when database is up and running. Your database or system got corrupt/damaged during updation was in process. >
is the error i got because of 1 of the reason above.
I'm trying to find a way to recover my APEX application that I built during 10 months. In the first time, I tried to recover, repair, restore...etc. my corrupted database 11g1 without success, in the end with nerves, I delete everything and reinstalled 11g2. Before to delete, I copied all db files including the corrupted one (system01.dbf).
I had wrote a script in order to export after any big change in my DB, a full database (using exp tool).
So now, What I have is :
1 - New and clean database. 2 - Last full export from the older one. 3 - All db files of the old database (noarchivelog).
I can import my schema that I used in my APEX app to contain data and objects (tables, sequences, triggers, views, packages, functions and procedures). But, I can't restore the APEX app.
Is there any way to recover my app from the export or from dbfiles ?
