Rman Restore and Recovery Scenarios

RMAN BACKUP SCENARIOUS

Full Database Restore $ORACLE_HOME/bin/rman target / nocatalog RMAN> shutdown abort; RMAN> startup mount; RMAN> restore database; RMAN> recover database; RMAN> alter database open; database opened Tablespace Restore (online) $ORACLE_HOME/bin/rman target / nocatalog RMAN> sql ‘alter tablespace users offline’; RMAN> restore tablespace users; RMAN> recover tablespace users; RMAN> sql ‘alter tablespace users online’; * A SYSTEM tablespace cannot be recovered with the database online. Tablespace Restore (offline) $ORACLE_HOME/bin/rman target / nocatalog RMAN> shutdown abort; RMAN> startup mount; RMAN> restore tablespace users;

RMAN> recover tablespace users; RMAN> alter database open; database opened Restoring a Specific Datafile $ORACLE_HOME/bin/rman target / nocatalog RMAN> shutdown abort; RMAN> startup mount; RMAN> restore datafile ‘/oradata/DB1/dbf/users01.dbf’; RMAN> recover datafile ‘/oradata/DB1/dbf/users01.dbf’; RMAN> alter database open; database opened Control File Restoration Prerequisite: In your rman backup directory determine the latest control file backup. Default Format: c-nnnnnnnnnn-nnnnnnnn-nn $ORACLE_HOME/bin/rman target / nocatalog RMAN> shutdown abort; RMAN> startup nomount; RMAN> set dbid = 1184749195 RMAN> restore controlfile from ‘/oradata/DB1/rman/c-1184749195-20060626-02′ RMAN> alter database mount; RMAN> restore database; RMAN> recover database;

RMAN> alter database open resetlogs; database opened Database Point-In-Time-Recovery (PITR) Also known as time-based incomplete recovery. $ORACLE_HOME/bin/rman target / nocatalog RMAN> shutdown abort; RMAN> startup mount; RMAN> restore database until time “to_date(’09/03/07 13:00:00′, ‘MM/DD/YY HH24:MI:SS’)”; RMAN> recover database until time “to_date(’09/03/07 13:00:00′, ‘MM/DD/YY HH24:MI:SS’)”; RMAN> alter database open resetlogs; database opened * Make sure you perform a full backup after this operation! Restore to Another System Prerequisites Ideally ensure destination system configured exactly like source. Same OS version and patch level. Same drives (C:, D:, S: etc.). CPU and RAM same or better. The same version of Oracle is installed on the target system as the source. Ensure the ORACLE_HOME and ORACLE_SID environment variables are set. Ensure the listener is running.

Copy RMAN backupset files to the destination system rman directory. If Windows: Create the password file. orapwd file=orapwDB1 password=mypassword Creates the file %ORACLE_HOME%\dbs\orapwDB1 Copy %ORACLE_HOME%\dbs\orapwDB1 to %ORACLE_HOME%\database. In some instances of a restore like this it may look for the file here. Create or start the Windows database instance service. oradim -new -sid DB1 -intpwd mypassword -startmode MANUAL Creates the file: %ORACLE_HOME%\database\PWDDB1.ORA Ensure the drive\path to the admin (adump,bdump,cdump,udump), data and redo directories on the source and destination systems are identical. Example: Admin Dump Directories mkdir C:\oracle\product\10.2.0\admin mkdir C:\oracle\product\10.2.0\admin\DB1 mkdir C:\oracle\product\10.2.0\admin\DB1\adump mkdir C:\oracle\product\10.2.0\admin\DB1\bdump mkdir C:\oracle\product\10.2.0\admin\DB1\cdump mkdir C:\oracle\product\10.2.0\admin\DB1\udump Data Directories mkdir D:\oradata

mkdir D:\oradata\DB1 Redo and Archive Log Directories mkdir D:\oradata\DB1\recovery1 mkdir D:\oradata\DB1\recovery2 Procedure Restore SPFILE and Control File %ORACLE_HOME%\bin\rman target / nocatalog RMAN> set dbid 161080442 RMAN> startup nomount; Creates the file: %ORACLE_HOME%\database\hc_db1.dat RMAN> restore spfile from ‘R:\rman\C-161080442-20080313-00′; Creates the file: %ORACLE_HOME%\database\SPFILEDB1.ORA RMAN> startup force nomount RMAN> restore controlfile from ‘R:\rman\C-161080442-20080313-00′; RMAN> shutdown immediate RMAN> exit Restore and Recover the Data %ORACLE_HOME%\bin\rman target / nocatalog RMAN> startup mount; RMAN> restore database; For a large database this step may take some time. RMAN> recover database;

If you do not have\need the very last log(s) you can disregard any error messages. ORA-00310: archived log contains sequence 100; sequence 101 required… RMAN> alter database open resetlogs; database opened

RMAN Archivelog List Commands 0 Comments Published by nag April 11th, 2013 in RMAN

RMAN Archivelog List Commands RMAN>list archivelog all; RMAN>list copy of archivelog until time ‘SYSDATE-10′; RMAN>list copy of archivelog from time ‘SYSDATE-10′ RMAN>list copy of archivelog from time ‘SYSDATE-10′ until time ‘SYSDATE-2′; RMAN>list copy of archivelog from sequence 1000; RMAN>list copy of archivelog until sequence 1500; RMAN>list copy of archivelog from sequence 1000 until sequence 1500; Archivelog Delete Commands RMAN>delete archivelog all completed before ‘sysdate -1′; — will delete one day previous archives RMAN>delete archivelog all; RMAN>delete archivelog until time ‘SYSDATE-10′; RMAN>delete archivelog from time ‘SYSDATE-10′ RMAN>delete archivelog from time ‘SYSDATE-10′ until time ‘SYSDATE-2′; RMAN>delete archivelog from sequence 1000; RMAN>delete archivelog until sequence 1500; RMAN>delete archivelog from sequence 1000 until sequence 1500;

Oracle – How to purge old RMAN backups Oracle – How to purge old RMAN backups Do not use rm to remove files. You must do it via RMAN. $ export NLS_DATE_FORMAT=’DD-MM-YY HH24:MI’

$ rman target / NOCATALOG RMAN > crosscheck backupset; This command will verify whether backup file is still on media. If it is unavailable, RMAN will mark it as UNAVAILABLE or EXPIRED. RAMN > delete expired backupset; or RMAN > delete expired backup; Note : If you manually rename or zip RMAN backup files, you must manually remove it from disk since RMAN does not recognize them. RMAN > report obsolete; The command lists all backups rendered obsolete based on rentention policy. Current Retention Policy is ‘Recovery WINDOW OF 30 DAYS’. RMAN > delete obsolete; RMAN > list backup summary; It will show all backupset info kept in RMAN repository. If you want to see what RMAN keeps in each backupset, run ‘list backupset N’ where N is Backupset ID. RMAN > delete backupset N; or RMAN > delete backupset; (to delete all backups) Once fair amount of space is reclaimed, do full backup. Not sure how much full back space is needed but not less than 20G. RMAN > backup database; RMAN > list backup; Full backup may have more than one backupset. Look for last backupsets. It will list backup db files. RMAN > delete obsolete; Rerun this command to delete unwanted existing backupsets (if have) after completed full backup.