auto backup and spfile restore

From: Chris Stephens <ChrisStephens_at_affina.com>
Date: Fri, 24 Jan 2003 11:54:15 -0800
Message-ID: <F001.0053A037.20030124115415@fatcity.com>

 List,

We are in the process of testing every recovery scenario we can think of using rman. We don't use a catalog and controlfile autobackup is on which implies the spfile is automatically backed up.

So one of the scenarios was to delete the spfile and pfile. To recover I thought we would be able to....

(database already shutdown)

rman
rman>set DBID=1370501721 ---i tried switch this with the command immediate following
rman>connect target /
rman>startup force nomount; ---from what I read in the documentation this should force oracle to use a 'dummy' spfile. rman>restore spfile from autobackup;

i realize there are several other ways to handle this situation but why can't i start the database in this way?
the error i get is:

RMAN> startup force nomount;

RMAN-00571: ===========================================================
RMAN-00569: =============== ERROR MESSAGE STACK FOLLOWS ===============
RMAN-00571: ===========================================================

RMAN-03002: failure of startup command at 01/24/2003 13:37:39 RMAN-04014: startup failed: ORA-27037: unable to obtain file status HP-UX Error: 2: No such file or directory Additional information: 3

what gives?

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