RMAN duplicate
1) Will be there any problem if there are two RMAN duplicates going (from two different auxiliary host) at the same time against the same source database? 2) How is the overhead incurred in the source DB during the RMAN duplication?

Answer Question   |  February 25, 2013  5:42 PM
RMAN, RMAN Duplicate

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Answer Question   |  November 8, 2010  2:03 PM
DDL, DOS, Exchange 2003, Giveaways, IT answers, IT Books, Leased line, Linux, MPLS, RMAN, RMAN backup

Errors Registering Recovery Catalog in 10g Grid
I have a 2 node RAC environment that I am trying to catalog in a database that is not part of the RAC instances, but is a tablespace in the Oracle Grid control database. This is a testing environment so my configuration may not be the most secure, but the production environment will have a [...]

Answer Question   |  June 10, 2009  6:33 PM
Oracle 10g, Oracle Database, Oracle Database 10g, Oracle Enterprise Manager, Oracle Recovery Catalog, Oracle Recovery Manager, RMAN

Turning off archive log and enabling back archive logs, implication on RMAN backup
As a part of application upgrade we temporary turned off archiving and swithed on post upgrade. My intention is to full level 0 rman backup. Do i need to recreate dbid for this incarnation ?

Answer Question   |  November 10, 2008  11:14 PM
Oracle backup, Oracle Recovery Manager, Oracle RMAN, RMAN, RMAN archive log backups, RMAN backup

Resetting the database
I received the following error:RMAN-20042: invalid tablespace creation change# when i dried reseting the database after doing a restore from an Rman backup. I tried to unregister the database than register it back in rman but the problem still exist and getting the following even when i try to register the database back: starting full [...]

Answer Question   |  October 1, 2008  9:39 AM
Catalog management, Oracle error messages, Oracle Recovery Manager, Restore Database, RMAN, RMAN-03008, RMAN-20042

Evidence of RMAN backup run
If I run any RMAN backup, does Oracle provide a historical means, a table entry or database view which is evidence that an RMAN backup was run on a certain date?

Answer Question   |  February 25, 2013  12:22 PM
Oracle backup, RMAN

RMAN Script
can anybody provide me script for RMAN backup on HP-UX with option backup on DISK and backup on TAPE too? If possible also tell how to take copy of disk backup on tape by using ‘BACKUP BACKUPSET’.

Answer Question   |  August 12, 2008  8:02 AM
Backup, BACKUP BACKUPSET, Backup to Disk, Backup to Tape, HP-UX, Recovery Manager, RMAN

Rman Backup
what’s the steps to take backup through RMAN and is it required RMAN Repository to backup?

Answer Question   |  July 31, 2008  9:03 AM
Oracle backup, Recovery Manager, RMAN

autobackup
How do you enable the autobackup for the controlfile using RMAN

Answer Question   |  August 23, 2008  2:57 PM
Backup, DBA, Oracle backup, Oracle Recovery Manager, RMAN

What is the significance of incarnation and DBID in the RMAN backups
What is the significance of incarnation and DBID in the RMAN backups

Answer Question   |  June 11, 2008  11:08 AM
Database Identifier, Database incarnation, DBA, DBID, Oracle Recovery Manager, Recovery Manager, RMAN

What are the steps which need to be performed in $ORACLE_HOME for enabling the RMAN backups with netbackup or TSM tape library software ?
What are the steps which needs to be performed in $ORACLE_HOME for enabling the RMAN backups with netbackup or TSM tape library software ?

Answer Question   |  June 11, 2008  11:02 AM
DBA, NetBackup, Oracle Recovery Manager, ORACLE_HOME, RMAN, TSM Tape Library

How do you restore and recover RMAN incremental backup on a new Host in different HDD partition?
How do you restore and recover RMAN incremental backup on a new Host in different HDD partition? My target and source operating system is Windows server. Please tell me the steps. I have done up to restoration. The restoration is completed successfully without any errors. But when I am firing recover database command, it shows [...]

Answer Question   |  September 10, 2010  2:19 PM
Oracle backup, Oracle Recovery Manager, Recovery Manager, RMAN

Running RMAN (Oracle 9.2.0.8 Enterprise Edition) over network fails with ORA-12560
Running RMAN (Oracle 9.2.0.8 Enterprise Edition) over network fails with ORA-12560 – TNS Protocol Adapter error. In RMAN cmd file I’ve tried re-directing to OraHome with dev-oraclec$oracleora92 as well as directly to the mapped drive: Z:oracleora92. Both fail with same error. I also set TARGET_INIT_FILE to its’ location using the same redirect. Must I get [...]

Answer Question   |  April 10, 2008  3:08 PM
ORA-12560, Oracle 9, Oracle Recovery Manager, RMAN