10g RMAN restore on another machine
TASK: Restoring a tape backup onto another machine and bringing up the database. ORIGINAL DATABASE: RPSP ON ITLINUX25 AND TARGET IS RPSP ON ITLINUX26. PRE-REQUISITES: Make sure that the tdpo.opt file...
View ArticleSome more RMAN Recovery Scenarios
I have added a few more RMAN recovery scenarios which I have come across recently and may be faced by others – so thought I’d share those with the community. The first relates to a case where we need...
View ArticleRMAN 11g new feature – Backup Fast Recovery Area (FRA) to Disk
In Oracle 11gR2, there is a good new feature whereby we can backup the fast or flash recovery area to a disk location which could be a remote destination via a NFS attached file system. In earlier...
View ArticleRestoring a ASM backup to non-ASM and restoring from RAC to single-instance
Scenario: 1) We want to restore the production database which is running on two-node RAC environment in a test non-RAC environment 2) We want to restore the backup residing on ASM disk groups in a...
View ArticleRMAN Backup and Recovery scenarios involving loss of SPFILE
Let us look at some backup and recovery scenarios pertaining to the SPFIILE. The SPFILE is a small but very important file and if we lose the spfile, we cannot start the database even if all the other...
View ArticleRestore RMAN backup to another server for testing disaster recovery...
This note explains the procedure used to restore an Oracle Suggested Strategy incremental backup on another server. This is useful when we have to do periodic testing of disaster recovery procedures...
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