RE: RMAN resync of catalog to controlfile

the catalog has all of the current backup info, so if i lose the repository(before taking a backup after rebuilding the controlfile), I'm SOL. I logged a tar and oracle's response is, no way to push catalog info back into the controlfile.

joe

> Joe - I'm confused. If you rebuild the controlfile, what good is the
backup
> information stored in the catalog? Other than maybe deciding to
revert to a
> time before the rebuild, and you're going to need the catalog for that
> anyway.
>
> Dennis Williams
> DBA, 40%OCP, 100% DBA
> Lifetouch, Inc.
> dwilliams_at_lifetouch.com
>
>
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>
> Robert, and all of you other RMAN gurus.
>
> scenario 1: repository unavailable, so rman backup was done using
> controlfile only. upon later successful connection to repository,
the
> backup info was pushed from controlfile to repository(YEA).
>
> scenario 2: I have to rebuild the controlfile and have a rman
> repository. so i do a resync in rman, rebuild the controlfile and
> connect back to repository, doing a resync HOPING that the
controlfile
> gets updated with info from repository, no such luck. I did a dump
of
> the controlfile(via alter session set events 'immediate trace name
> controlf level 10'), looking for the section on BACKUP SET RECORDS
and
> BACKUP PIECE RECORDS and there is nothing there.
>
> so my question is this: is the resync only a one way push, i
> understand oracle's mentality about not overwriting the backup
records
> in the controlfile since that should be the true information, but is
> there a way to force oracle/rman to push the repository info back
into
> the controlfile, i've not found a solution for this.
>
> if anyone is interested in the dump files, let me know and i'll make
> them available on the web so you can see what I'm talking about.
>
> thanks, joe
>
>
>
>
> Joseph S Testa
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