Category Archives: Recovery Manager

Backing up wrong.

A client has the backup defined to do the following: set parameters. Backup database. Backup archivelogs. Backup controlfile. Whilst this appears to be fine, in this case it resulted in an un-recoverable backup. Why ?

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ANS1017E (RC-50) Session rejected: TCP/IP connection failure

A client received the following trace stack. RMAN-00571: =========================================================== RMAN-00569: =============== ERROR MESSAGE STACK FOLLOWS =============== RMAN-00571: =========================================================== RMAN-03009: failure of backup command on t1 channel at 06/10/2011 06:20:28 ORA-19502: write error on file “d_SRAORA_srmegs8t_1_1″, blockno 474113 (blocksize=512) ORA-27030: skgfwrt: … Continue reading

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Performing Incremental Backups.

Oracle’s support for incremental backups allows larger database’s to be backed up incrementally over a longer period of time, whilst reducing the overhead and size required for the backup pieces.

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Using DBMS_REPAIR to check for corruption.

dbms_repair can be used to check for corruption in the database. Here’s what to do when corruption is reported in the alert log.

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Restoring a database from TSM.

If you require to restore a database from TSM, you will require some additional information than just your backup tape.

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RMAN-03002 and ORA-06510

RMAN-03002: failure of restore command at 05/14/2009 02:18:01 ORA-06510: PL/SQL: unhandled user-defined exception

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Configure Rman to Purge Application standby logs.

Configure RMAN to purge archivelogs after Application on standby.

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Create and schedule a rolling copy backup.

I needed to implement on windows a rolling backup on a database. This is how I’ve done it, oracle 11g R2.

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RMAN-06553 DB_CREATE_FILE_DEST must be set for SET NEWNAME … TO NEW

RMAN-00571: =========================================================== RMAN-00569: =============== ERROR MESSAGE STACK FOLLOWS =============== RMAN-00571: =========================================================== RMAN-03002: failure of restore command at 02/25/2011 13:06:27 RMAN-06553: DB_CREATE_FILE_DEST must be set for SET NEWNAME … TO NEW

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ORA-19602: cannot backup or copy active file in NOARCHIVELOG mode

I am trying to do a full RMAN cold backup and am getting the following : ORA-19602: cannot backup or copy active file in NOARCHIVELOG mode What’s the cause ?

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