I am an absolute neophyte at this. I'm fairly good at SQL, but have not administrated a database before.
I am trying to take a backup from our production database and restore it to a fresh install of Oracle 10.2 on a Windows 2003 server using RMAN - but I am not getting very far. Software versions are all the same. I have access to the manuals, but it seems like every link I follow adds more questions than it answers.
I have gone through the wizard and set up oracle on the new box - that all seemed to go smoothly. In order for this to work, do I need to set up the database with the same DBID as the one in the backup files? Or is there a way to import the data from the backup and have it build the database from those files?
I'm not sure I'm even asking the right questions. Do any of y'all know of a tutorial that would walk me through this process step by step?
I have the following situation: a customer sent me a group of files, that he said to be a "backup" of an old database, that is no longer online (he doesn´t use our software anymore). However, he needs to recover the data in this database. The person at the company who generate these files doesn´t work there anymore, so we don´t have any of the following information:
- Database version, connection details, service names, user names neither tablespace names.
We were just told that these files were recorded in a DVD, and is que only source remaining. The files he sent are the following:
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 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 have an oracle autoback of controlfile and spfile. I am trying to restore the production database using this backup, into a new server with a different directory structure.
I have completed the following steps in the restore process.
1. Creating a pfile from spfile
2. Changing the the location of cdump, udump, bdump and the control files ( there are three )
3. Then creating a spfile from this pfile
I am stuck on the next step where to rename all the datafiles and tempfile and restore the database. Following is what I did.
After mounting the database in RMAN, tried to run the following.
RMAN> run 2> { 3> allocate channel c1 device type disk 4> ; 5> @/home/oracle/rman_scripts/newloc.rman 6> SET NEWNAME FOR DATAFILE 1 TO '/u02/oradata/dorian/system01.dbf'; 7> SET NEWNAME FOR DATAFILE 2 TO '/u02/oradata/dorian/undotbs01.dbf'; 8> SET NEWNAME FOR DATAFILE 3 TO '/u02/oradata/dorian/sysaux01.dbf'; 9> SET NEWNAME FOR DATAFILE 4 TO '/u02/oradata/dorian/users01.dbf';
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I am getting the following error message.
Starting restore at 25-JAN-2012 21:26:48 released channel: c1 RMAN-00571: =========================================================== RMAN-00569: =============== ERROR MESSAGE STACK FOLLOWS =============== RMAN-00571: =========================================================== RMAN-03002: failure of restore command at 01/25/2012 21:26:49 RMAN-06026: some targets not found - aborting restore RMAN-06100: no channel to restore a backup or copy of datafile 30 RMAN-06100: no channel to restore a backup or copy of datafile 29 RMAN-06100: no channel to restore a backup or copy of datafile 28
The problem is at times there may not be any archive files that meet this criteria and RMAN throws an error
RMAN-06004: ORACLE error from recovery catalog database: RMAN-20242: specification does not match any archived log in the recovery catalog
I was considering using the following code to see if there are any available .arc files that meet the backup criteria.
set pagesize 0 feedback off verify off heading off echo off; select count(1) from v$archived_log where COMPLETION_TIME < sysdate-$KEEP_ARCHIVE_HOURS/24 and backup_count = 0 and name is not null;
While testing on several systems, I found that the above-mentioned query picked up some redo-logs (*.rdo) I can only assume that these redo logs were used for a DB recovery.
1) Is my assumtion correct about the .rdo files in the v$archived_logs table
2) I would hate to add special logic and look for something like name substr(name, *.arc) (pardon the syntax). Therefore, is there a way to get rid of these *.rdo files?
I had a production db with archive logging enabled
SQL> select name,status 2 from v$archived_log;
NAME STATUS ---------------------------------------- - D:ORACLEARCHIVE_ORCL11_13.DBF A D:ORACLEARCHIVE_ORCL11_14.DBF A D:ORACLEARCHIVE_ORCL11_15.DBF A
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So i need to restore archivelogs by using sequence
RMAN>RESTORE ARCHIVELOG FROM SEQUENCE 20 UNTIL SEQUENCE 28; So the restore is completed successfully So its very hard to monitor archivelog files i feel i should have included all archivelog files while taking RMAN backup
RMAN >backup database plus archivelog all delete input;
but the problem is my RMAN backup is already 360GB in size and it takes 4-5 hrs to complete .so i need to schedule RMAN backup at one time (e.g sunday) ,delete the archivelog files older than sundayand now schedule the archivelog backup at another day (e.g wed &sat)
my question is where i have to change my script to backup all avaialbe archivelog files if old archivelog files are deleted at os level?
RMAN> run { 2> allocate channel c1 type disk; 3> sql 'alter system archive log current'; 4> backup archivelog all format 'D:oracleackuplog_t%t_s%s_p%p' delete input; 5> release channel c1; 6> }
My operation system is Linux,there is a database on it . the other server's operation system is windows.
SQL> SELECT * FROM V$VERSION;
BANNER ---------------------------------------------------------------- Oracle Database 10g Enterprise Edition Release 10.2.0.1.0 - Prod PL/SQL Release 10.2.0.1.0 - Production CORE 10.2.0.1.0 Production TNS for Linux: Version 10.2.0.1.0 - Production NLSRTL Version 10.2.0.1.0 - Production
SQL>
Now,i want to implement hot backup on my oracle database which install the linux operation system ,but i expect the hot backup files can storage on the servers of the Windows operation system directly.
There is an incident that in production database 1000 archive log files generated.From 1000 files, 100 archive log files have been removed.When i take incremental backup next day , what will happen in database?
I am running the following command to backup my archive logs and want to keep at least two hours of .arc files on disk.
rman < connect target login/password connect catalog login/password show all; sql "alter system archive log current"; backup filesperset 5 archivelog until time 'sysdate-2/24' format $FILE_DEST_ARCH delete input ; resync catalog; EOT
On some occassions, there will not be any archive logs that meet this criteria and I get the following error:
RMAN-00571: =========================================================== RMAN-00569: =============== ERROR MESSAGE STACK FOLLOWS =============== RMAN-00571: =========================================================== RMAN-03002: failure of backup command at 12/01/2010 12:50:58 RMAN-06004: ORACLE error from recovery catalog database: RMAN-20242: specificati on does not match any archive log in the recovery catalog
Is there anything I can do to the rman command above that will prevent this error from happening but yet keeping same functionality?
I have been experimenting with RMAN over the past few days and have a fairly strong grasp on it. I setup a test scenario using a three tier incremental approach as follows:
Every four weeks take level 0 Every 7 days take level 1 Every day take level 2
Obviously I'm only taking one per day, so on days I take a level 0, I'm not taking a level 1 or 2. My scripts look similar to the following, with change to incremental level number.
rman target / <<EOF run { configure device type disk parallelism 4 backup type to compressed backupset; configure default device type to disk; configure backup optimization off; configure controlfile autobackup on; configure retention policy to recovery window of 4 days; [code]......
What I'm trying to understand is what files Oracle is creating in the flash recovery area. I have several sets of files:
In the root level of the FRA, I see several files per incremental backup with names such as aambg4sa_1_1, aqmbg5mj_1_1, b6mbg614_1_1, etc. I was under the impression that these were the incremental backup pieces, multiple files because I'm using parallelism of 4.
Under a /FRA/<SID> I see 3 directories: archivelog, autobackup, and backupset. I assume arhivelog is where Oracle is archiving the redo logs, autobackup is storing the SPFILE and CONTROLFILE as I have enabled controlfile autobackup. However, what is being stored in backupset?
When I do a crosscheck, it lists the files within backupset, but does not list the several files under the root of FRA (b6mbg614_1_1 and so on).
What's the difference between /FRA/<SID>/backupset and the files under root FRA? Do I need both for recovery - and if not, why is Oracle keeping both?
db can only be opened if all the datafile and controlfiles are synchronize.I wonder if db crash and we dont have any kind of backup. is there some way to synchronize the control file with the datafile?....any way.db is not idle either when crashes we can manage data lose.just want our database open
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?
In the backup and recovery session i have miss my online redolog files. why the datafiles are recovered.it's possible to recovered to online redo logs?
Accidentally without checking the channel allocation I have given the backup archivelog from sequence until sequence with delete input. This backup piece went to the disk but it should go to Tape.I know that we can catalog this backup piece but I want to move this backup files in disk to Tape using RMAN. Is there anyway or I have to lie with Backup team or OS team for this file movement?
what are the minimum files which are required to open the db ? take it as this
I have oracle installed in c drive. I have placed 3 datafile related to one tablespace say test: two in D and one in E. I have place 3 datafile related to tablespace say orcl : two in D and one in E.
my undo is in E scenario is that my E drive crashed . db is in no archive mode . no backup is there. to be more worst db shuts down abnormally. I want my db open with data of c drive and D drive.
I am trying to backup my entire database's files :
[oracle@testing-oracle-1 ~]$ rman target / Recovery Manager: Release 11.2.0.1.0 - Production on Mon Jun 24 16:09:54 2013 Copyright (c) 1982, 2009, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. connected to target database: ORCL (DBID=1341263457) RMAN> list backup;
using target database control file instead of recovery catalog specification does not match any backup in the repository
RMAN> CONFIGURE CONTROLFILE AUTOBACKUP ON; new RMAN configuration parameters: CONFIGURE CONTROLFILE AUTOBACKUP ON; new RMAN configuration parameters are successfully stored RMAN> CONFIGURE CONTROLFILE AUTOBACKUP FORMAT FOR DEVICE TYPE DISK TO '/u01/app/oracle/backupsets/control_files/cf_%F.BCKP';2>
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I see that a backup set was created to "/u01/app/oracle/flash_recovery_area/ORCL/backupset/2013_06_24/" , in spite of my specification.
So I asked RMAN to list all the backups I have:
RMAN> list backup;
List of Backup Sets =================== BS Key Size Device Type Elapsed Time Completion Time ------- ---------- ----------- ------------ --------------- 1 41.14M DISK 00:00:00 24-JUN-13 BP Key: 1 Status: AVAILABLE Compressed: NO Tag: TAG20130624T161025 Piece Name: /u01/app/oracle/backupsets/818957425_1_%r.BCKP
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Here I see that 4 backup sets have been created.The backup sets 1 & 3 containing the archived redo logs (818957425_1_%r.BCKP and 818957451_3_%r.BCKP) are placed as I wanted in /u01/app/oracle/backupsets/ dir.
The file containing the Control File and Spfile (cf_c-1341263457-20130624-00.BCKP) is placed as I wanted in /u01/app/oracle/backupsets/control_files/ dir.However, The backup set file containing the data files(o1_mf_nnnd0_TAG20130624T161026_8wjkb2tg_.bkp) is placed under the directory /u01/app/oracle/flash_recovery_area/ORCL/backupset/2013_06_24/ ,and I don't understand why.
When I backup my database without the archived redo logs - it is saved correctly:
RMAN> RMAN> delete backup; using channel ORA_DISK_1 List of Backup Pieces BP Key BS Key Pc# Cp# Status Device Type Piece Name
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1. Why aren't my data files backed up to the location I specified when I backup using PLUS ARCHIVELOG syntax?
2. Why are my redo logs saved to two different backup sets and not just one?
3. Is there a way to combine backup of all files (data files, control file, spfile, redo logs & arch redo's) in one backup set, one file?
I took backup of Datafiles , archivelog files and controlfile through RMAN. Now, i want 3 backup file will created as a output of RMAN operation. It would be :
1 backupfile for all the datafiles 1 backupfile for all the archivelog files 1 backupfile for controlfile.
It have to be regardlessly whatevr my DB size is. It it possible to do so. How i can can write rman script to accomplish the task.
I would like to know that if I enable backup Optimization on then incremental full backup skip any files which was earlier backup? Because we may know that backup Optimization on ensure skip those files which are already taken backup.
I have a 10G Express system running. I Have 2 tablespaces in production. WHen taking backup, it terminates unsuccessfully saying system01.dbf is damaged. The application works fine and no data loss is found through the application interface.
So can I shift the data to a new server using the dbf files of the tablespaces in use?
We have a nightly rman backup that was complete and clean.The backup contains a Data File, Control File and a backup Archive Log file.The database server crashed with all the subsequent archive logs lost.
We are trying to recover from the three backup files.We are bumping into the backup piece missing as all the archive logs are done. how to restore with the exising backup files. the lost archive logs are probably salvageable.
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.
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 facing problem while taking backup on Windows 7 client of Oracle 11g R2 database. I have installed oracle 11gR2 for windows on windows 7 machine. I have created a directory like below in database.
On Database Server
SQL> create directory win_expdp_dir as 'd:expimp';
Directory created.
SQL> grant read, write on directory win_expdp_dir to lab;
Grant succeeded.
On Windows 7 machine (client machine)
D:appproduct11.2.0client_1BIN>expdp lab/lab@wbdata.wbh-db11g DIRECTORY=win_expdp_dir DUMPFILE=lab.dmp LOGFILE=lab.log Export: Release 11.2.0.1.0 - Production on Mon May 2 12:51:44 2011 Copyright (c) 1982, 2009, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Connected to: Oracle Database 11g Enterprise Edition Release 11.2.0.1.0 - Production With the Partitioning, OLAP, Data Mining and Real Application Testing options ORA-39002: invalid operation ORA-39070: Unable to open the log file.
I have give all sharing rights on d:expimp directory. My main question is why i'm getting this error. Is there any thing missing in setup. how to take export on windows 7 client.
I am trying to clone a database on another server with different direcory structure. So that path on the source db server are /u04 whereas on on target db server it would be /u03.
Since this I am testing it on small database initially I have kept all datafiles, backup and archivelogs at /u04 and /u03 on the source and target db servers respectively Now I have copied the backups from source db server to target and since path is changed, I cataloged it
However during restore I am getting
Quote:ORA-19870: error reading backup
Here are the session details
RMAN> catalog start with '/u03/oradata/db7fra'; searching for all files that match the pattern /u03/oradata/db7fra List of Files Unknown to the Database ===================================== File Name: /u03/oradata/db7fra/DB7/archivelog/2011_03_15/o1_mf_1_16_6qyvpb3w_.arc File Name: /u03/oradata/db7fra/DB7/backupset/2011_03_15/o1_mf_annnn_TAG20110315T123018_6qypyv5v_.bkp
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I have altered permissions on the backup files as well but of no use
oracle@dev-biz:/u03/oradata/db7fra/DB7/backupset/2011_03_15 $ls -ltr total 545260 -rwxrwxrwx 1 oracle dba 12419072 Mar 15 13:52 o1_mf_ncsnf_TAG20110315T123008_6qypyrz2_.bkp -rwxrwxrwx 1 oracle dba 3072 Mar 15 13:52 o1_mf_annnn_TAG20110315T125043_6qyr54to_.bkp -rwxrwxrwx 1 oracle dba 426496 Mar 15 13:52 o1_mf_annnn_TAG20110315T125006_6qyr3zk4_.bkp -rwxrwxrwx 1 oracle dba 14336 Mar 15 13:52 o1_mf_annnn_TAG20110315T123018_6qypyv5v_.bkp
I've read a lot about the different types of backup available with Oracle (hot and cold backup). However, I was thinking of a different way of performing this task. I'm currently using Windows Server 2008 R2 and Oracle 11g Standard Edition. I'd like to schedule an entire backup of my server via the utility "Windows Server Backup" (available for free).That way, I could recover my entire server with all the programs and files in case the latter crashes.I'm wondering if this solution could be used as a way of backing up (and recovering) the Oracle database. Should I still set up a regular hot backup with the Archivelog mode enabled in case some operations/transactions were being done at the time of the crash (for the data integrity)?
