Re: rman

You won't hose the backup you need. You can use rman nocatalog if there is a problem with the incarnation.

Ruth
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To: "Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L" <ORACLE-L_at_fatcity.com> Sent: Monday, May 20, 2002 9:58 AM

> Hi
>
> Please can you help/advise with an rman problem we are having. We are
> getting the following error when trying to backup a database:
>
> RMAN-20011: target database incarnation is not current in recovery catalog
>
> If I look in the rman logs I see that our last valid backup was 16th May.
> The rman database shows that the rc_backup_file has an entry for that
date-
> anything after that is blank.
>
> Metalink has provided a solution to zero the dbid- what are the
implications
> of this- it gives no information on that. The additional aspect is that I
> need to restore the 16th's backup onto our ref box so if zeroing the dbid
> will hose that backup..I'd rather avoid that??!!! : )
>
> Any help would be REALLY appreciated!!!
>
> Rgds
>
> Fawzia
>
>
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