Recovery

1. Complete Recovery 1.1. Here I will delete all the data files and will restore from the backup we taken above. Rename all data files with mv command in Linux. This is just to have a backup with us.

$ sqlplus '/ as sysdba' SQL* Plus: Release 9.2.0.6.0 - Production on Mon Sep 11 12:14:30 2006 Copyright (c) 1982, 2002, Oracle Corporation. All rights reserved. Connected to an idle instance. SQL> startup database mount; SP2-0714: invalid combination of STARTUP options SQL> startup mount; ORACLE instance started. Total System Global Area 581506668 bytes Fixed Size 452204 bytes Variable Size 402653184 bytes Database Buffers 167772160 bytes Redo Buffers 10629120 bytes Database mounted. SQL> alter database open; alter database open * ERROR at line 1: ORA-01157: cannot identify/ lock data file 36 - see DBWR trace file ORA-01110: data file 36: '/u01/oracle/ visdata/ tx_data10.dbf'

  1.2. Connect rman to restore datafiles in another terminal.

$ rman target sys/sys_password Recovery Manager: Release 9.2.0.6.0 - Production Copyright (c) 1995, 2002, Oracle Corporation. All rights reserved. connected to target database: VIS (DBID= 1772376983) RMAN> restore database; Starting restore at 11-SEP-06 using target database controlfile instead of recovery catalog allocated channel: ORA_DISK_1 channel ORA_DISK_1: sid= 12 devtype= DISK channel ORA_DISK_1: starting datafile backupset restore 89/196 channel ORA_DISK_1: specifying datafile(s) to restore from backup set restoring datafile 00001 to /u01/oracle/ visdata/ sys1.dbf restoring datafile 00002 to /u01/oracle/ visdata/ sys2.dbf restoring datafile 00003 to /u01/oracle/ visdata/ sys3.dbf restoring datafile 00004 to /u01/oracle/ visdata/ sys4.dbf restoring datafile 00005 to /u01/oracle/ visdata/ sys5.dbf restoring datafile 00006 to /u01/oracle/ visdata/ sys6.dbf restoring datafile 00007 to /u01/oracle/ visdata/ sys7.dbf restoring datafile 00008 to /u01/oracle/ visdata/undo01.dbf restoring datafile 00009 to /u01/oracle/ visdata/undo02.dbf restoring datafile 00010 to /u01/oracle/ visdata/undo03.dbf restoring datafile 00011 to /u01/oracle/ visdata/undo04.dbf restoring datafile 00012 to /u01/oracle/ visdata/archive1.dbf restoring datafile 00013 to /u01/oracle/ visdata/archive2.dbf restoring datafile 00014 to /u01/oracle/ visdata/media1.dbf restoring datafile 00015 to /u01/oracle/ visdata/media2.dbf restoring datafile 00016 to /u01/oracle/ visdata/media3.dbf restoring datafile 00017 to /u01/oracle/ visdata/nologging1.dbf restoring datafile 00018 to /u01/oracle/ visdata/queues1.dbf restoring datafile 00019 to /u01/oracle/ visdata/queues2.dbf restoring datafile 00020 to /u01/oracle/ visdata/ reference1.dbf restoring datafile 00021 to /u01/oracle/ visdata/ reference2.dbf restoring datafile 00022 to /u01/oracle/ visdata/ summary1.dbf restoring datafile 00023 to /u01/oracle/ visdata/ summary2.dbf restoring datafile 00024 to /u01/oracle/ visdata/ summary3.dbf restoring datafile 00025 to /u01/oracle/ visdata/ summary4.dbf restoring datafile 00026 to /u01/oracle/ visdata/ summary5.dbf restoring datafile 00027 to /u01/oracle/ visdata/ tx_data1.dbf restoring datafile 00028 to /u01/oracle/ visdata/ tx_data2.dbf restoring datafile 00029 to /u01/oracle/ visdata/ tx_data3.dbf restoring datafile 00030 to /u01/oracle/ visdata/ tx_data4.dbf restoring datafile 00031 to /u01/oracle/ visdata/ tx_data5.dbf restoring datafile 00032 to /u01/oracle/ visdata/ tx_data6.dbf restoring datafile 00033 to /u01/oracle/ visdata/ tx_data7.dbf restoring datafile 00034 to /u01/oracle/ visdata/ tx_data8.dbf restoring datafile 00035 to /u01/oracle/ visdata/ tx_data9.dbf restoring datafile 00036 to /u01/oracle/ visdata/ tx_data10.dbf restoring datafile 00037 to /u01/oracle/ visdata/ tx_data11.dbf restoring datafile 00038 to /u01/oracle/ visdata/ tx_idx1.dbf restoring datafile 00039 to /u01/oracle/ visdata/ tx_idx2.dbf restoring datafile 00040 to /u01/oracle/ visdata/ tx_idx3.dbf restoring datafile 00041 to /u01/oracle/ visdata/ tx_idx4.dbf restoring datafile 00042 to /u01/oracle/ visdata/ tx_idx5.dbf restoring datafile 00043 to /u01/oracle/ visdata/ tx_idx6.dbf restoring datafile 00044 to /u01/oracle/ visdata/ tx_idx7.dbf restoring datafile 00045 to /u01/oracle/ visdata/ tx_idx8.dbf restoring datafile 00046 to /u01/oracle/ visdata/ tx_idx9.dbf restoring datafile 00047 to /u01/oracle/ visdata/ tx_idx10.dbf restoring datafile 00048 to /u01/oracle/ visdata/ tx_idx11.dbf restoring datafile 00049 to /u01/oracle/ visdata/apps_ts_tx_interface.dbf restoring datafile 00050 to /u01/oracle/ visdata/ ctx1.dbf restoring datafile 00053 to /u01/oracle/ visdata/odm.dbf restoring datafile 00055 to /u01/oracle/ visdata/olap.dbf restoring datafile 00056 to /u01/oracle/ visdata/owa1.dbf restoring datafile 00057 to /u01/oracle/ visdata/portal.dbf restoring datafile 00058 to /u01/oracle/ visdata/mobile01.dbf channel ORA_DISK_1: restored backup piece 1 piece handle= /u01/backup/data/VIS_datafiles_600565802_0ehsnq1a_1_1.bak tag= TAG20060907T235002 params= NULL channel ORA_DISK_1: restore complete Finished restore at 11-SEP-06

   1.3. After restore recover the database.

SQL> recover database; ORA-00279: change 8173926267640 generated at 09/07/2006 23:50:02 needed for thread 1 ORA-00289: suggestion : /u01/oracle/ visdb/9.2.0/dbs/arch1_320.dbf ORA-00280: change 8173926267640 for thread 1 is in sequence # 320 Specify log: { < RET> = suggested | filename | AUTO | CANCEL} AUTO Log applied. Media recovery complete. SQL> alter database open; Database altered. SQL>