Re: Recovery from online backups/archived logs on another system

From: Guang Mei <gmei_at_incyte.com>
Date: Wed, 14 Apr 2004 15:18:12 -0400
Message-ID: <NJEDKDKJDGAKAEKKNEEJKEKMDBAA.gmei@incyte.com>

I have never done this, but I think if you want to set up "STANDBY", you would do this on your standby database:

STARTUP NOMOUNT
ALTER DATABASE MOUNT STANDBY DATABASE;
RECOVER STANDBY DATABASE Guang

>
> I am then attempting to do a recovery using:
>
> open mount exclusive
> recover database using backup controlfile
>
> The recover process starts OK taking, as I expected, the first log from
> the point where backups started and rolling them forward one by one.
> However, it is never satisfied. It never says anything along the lines
> of 'backup complete' - it wants more and more archived logs, and when
> there are none left it still wants more, even though the transaction
> logs it's now applying are substantially later than the backups taken.
>
> If I CANCEL out of the recovery and attempt to
>
> alter database open resetlogs
>
> I get
>
> ORA-01113: file 1 needs media recovery
> ORA-01110: data file 1: '/u03/oracle/oradata/v7/system01.dbf'
>
> Why is it doing this when I have fed it every single transaction log
> available? None are missing.

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