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RE: RMAN: restoring autobackup spfile and controlfile

From: Allen, Brandon <Brandon.Allen_at_OneNeck.com>
Date: Wed, 1 Aug 2007 13:30:24 -0700
Message-ID: <04DDF147ED3A0D42B48A48A18D574C45071FE188@NT15.oneneck.corp>


One more tip on this topic - I just did some testing and found that setting the maxseq parameter only limits the sequence on the first day that rman searches, so for example when I run it with maxseq=02 today, it only searches for the controlfile autobackups with sequences 02, 01 and 00 for today, but if it doesn't find an autobackup from today, then when it goes to the previous day (20070731 in this case), it starts searching from the 256th sequence (ff in hex) again as you can see from the /usr/openv/netbackup/logs/dbclient/log.080107 output below. So, the workaround for this is to specify the date of the autobackup with an until clause, like this:

restore spfile from autobackup maxseq 2 until time "to_date('20070729','YYYYMMDD')";

Of course this assumes you know the date of the last autobackup, so it's not a good solution, but might be a helpful workaround. I'll be opening an SR with Oracle Support shortly to address this and see if there is a better solution. Metalink 272502.1 talks about this issue too.

Regards,
Brandon

/usr/openv/netbackup/logs/dbclient/log.080107:

13:10:00.286 [1691716] <2> int_GetBfsDateRange: INF - Start Time = 07/31/07 12:00:00
13:10:00.287 [1691716] <2> int_GetBfsDateRange: INF - End Time = 08/02/07 12:00:00

13:10:00.299 [1691716] <2> logconnections: BPRD CONNECT FROM
172.24.7.66.46710 TO 169.254.0.6.13720
13:10:00.713 [1691716] <2> logconnections: BPRD CONNECT FROM
172.24.7.66.46711 TO 169.254.0.6.13720
13:10:03.703 [1691716] <2> int_FindBackupImage: INF -
c-1456724758-20070801-02 not found
13:10:03.703 [1691716] <8> int_SetImageInfoArray: WRN - Proxy backup file, c-1456724758-20070801-02, not found. 13:10:04.703 [1691716] <2> int_GetBfsDateRange: INF - Start Time = 07/31/07 12:00:00
13:10:04.703 [1691716] <2> int_GetBfsDateRange: INF - End Time = 08/02/07 12:00:00
13:10:04.716 [1691716] <2> logconnections: BPRD CONNECT FROM
172.24.7.66.46712 TO 169.254.0.6.13720
13:10:05.117 [1691716] <2> logconnections: BPRD CONNECT FROM
172.24.7.66.46713 TO 169.254.0.6.13720
13:10:06.507 [1691716] <2> int_FindBackupImage: INF -
c-1456724758-20070801-01 not found
13:10:06.507 [1691716] <8> int_SetImageInfoArray: WRN - Proxy backup file, c-1456724758-20070801-01, not found. 13:10:07.508 [1691716] <2> int_GetBfsDateRange: INF - Start Time = 07/31/07 12:00:00
13:10:07.508 [1691716] <2> int_GetBfsDateRange: INF - End Time = 08/02/07 12:00:00
13:10:07.521 [1691716] <2> logconnections: BPRD CONNECT FROM
172.24.7.66.46714 TO 169.254.0.6.13720
13:10:07.921 [1691716] <2> logconnections: BPRD CONNECT FROM
172.24.7.66.46715 TO 169.254.0.6.13720
13:10:09.311 [1691716] <2> int_FindBackupImage: INF -
c-1456724758-20070801-00 not found
13:10:09.311 [1691716] <8> int_SetImageInfoArray: WRN - Proxy backup file, c-1456724758-20070801-00, not found. 13:10:10.314 [1691716] <2> int_GetBfsDateRange: INF - Start Time = 07/30/07 12:00:00
13:10:10.314 [1691716] <2> int_GetBfsDateRange: INF - End Time = 08/01/07 12:00:00
13:10:10.326 [1691716] <2> logconnections: BPRD CONNECT FROM
172.24.7.66.46717 TO 169.254.0.6.13720
13:10:10.725 [1691716] <2> logconnections: BPRD CONNECT FROM
172.24.7.66.46718 TO 169.254.0.6.13720
13:10:12.115 [1691716] <2> int_FindBackupImage: INF -
c-1456724758-20070731-ff not found
13:10:12.115 [1691716] <8> int_SetImageInfoArray: WRN - Proxy backup file, c-1456724758-20070731-ff, not found. <<<<----- 13:10:13.116 [1691716] <2> int_GetBfsDateRange: INF - Start Time = 07/30/07 12:00:00
13:10:13.117 [1691716] <2> int_GetBfsDateRange: INF - End Time = 08/01/07 12:00:00
13:10:13.129 [1691716] <2> logconnections: BPRD CONNECT FROM
172.24.7.66.46719 TO 169.254.0.6.13720
13:10:13.529 [1691716] <2> logconnections: BPRD CONNECT FROM
172.24.7.66.46720 TO 169.254.0.6.13720
13:10:14.919 [1691716] <2> int_FindBackupImage: INF -
c-1456724758-20070731-fe not found
13:10:14.919 [1691716] <8> int_SetImageInfoArray: WRN - Proxy backup file, c-1456724758-20070731-fe, not found. 13:10:15.920 [1691716] <2> int_GetBfsDateRange: INF - Start Time = 07/30/07 12:00:00
13:10:15.920 [1691716] <2> int_GetBfsDateRange: INF - End Time = 08/01/07 12:00:00
13:10:15.933 [1691716] <2> logconnections: BPRD CONNECT FROM
172.24.7.66.46721 TO 169.254.0.6.13720
13:10:16.333 [1691716] <2> logconnections: BPRD CONNECT FROM
172.24.7.66.46722 TO 169.254.0.6.13720
13:10:17.723 [1691716] <2> int_FindBackupImage: INF -
c-1456724758-20070731-fd not found
13:10:17.723 [1691716] <8> int_SetImageInfoArray: WRN - Proxy backup file, c-1456724758-20070731-fd, not found.

-----Original Message-----

From: Allen, Brandon
Sent: Wednesday, August 01, 2007 11:03 AM To: 'ag_at_oracloid.com'; jkstill_at_gmail.com; Oracle-L Freelists Subject: RE: RMAN: restoring autobackup spfile and controlfile

Just a tip in case you're not already familiar with this - if you try restoring from autobackup w/o specifying the backup piece, it can take a long time for rman to search backwards through the catalog from 255 to 0 looking for the latest autobackup sequence on each day. The workaround is to set the maxseq parameter, like this (as documented in Metalink 393947.1):

restore spfile from autobackup maxseq=02;

Regards,
Brandon

-----Original Message-----

From: oracle-l-bounce_at_freelists.org
[mailto:oracle-l-bounce_at_freelists.org] On Behalf Of Alex Gorbachev

Btw, were you able to restore controlfile knowing just DBID and no names for the autobackup piece(s)?

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