RMAN

Restoring a database without having any controlfile backup

It should never happen but sometimes it happens. You just lost your datafiles as well as your fast recovery area (probably because most of the time these areas are on the same disks despite the recommendations). Normal restore operations with(…)

Easily manage dual backup destination with RMAN

Backup on disk with RMAN is great. It’s fast, you can set as many channels as your platform can handle for faster backups. And you can restore as fast as you can read and write files on disk with these(…)

PDB RMAN backups available after plugging in on a new CDB with Oracle 18c

With Oracle 18c, it is possible to use PDB rman backups created on the source CDB (they are called PREPLUGIN backups) when the PDB has been relocated to a target CDB. In my environment, my original CDB is DB18, with(…)

How to prevent RMAN archivelog backup from log switch

When RMAN backups archivelogs, it does a logswitch before backing up all archivelogs. In some cases this log switching should be suppressed. This can be done with expression “until time ‘sysdate'”, which actually filters nothing. For example: backup archivelog until(…)

RMAN debugging during catalog import

In this post I would like to share how I have been able to troubleshoot and solve a catalog import issue using RMAN debug function. As we can see, the error message provided by RMAN is not very helpful. oracle@vmtestoradg1:/home/oracle/(…)

ORACLE 11g to 12c RMAN catalog migration

This is a small migration demo of a 11g catalog (RCAT11G) to a new 12c catalog (RCAT12c). Demo databases environments have been easily managed thanks to DBI DMK tool. oracle@vmreforadg01:/home/oracle/ [RCAT11G] sqh SQL*Plus:(…)

Workaround for bug 19566227/20563128 doing Cross Platform Migration (MOS Note 1389592.1)

In a project I have to move an Oracle 11.2.0.4-DB (around 7TB in size) from Sparc Solaris (called Source in the remainder of this Blog) to Linux x86-64 (called Target in the remainder of the Blog). I.e. a platform migration(…)

12cR2 RMAN> REPAIR

By Franck Pachot . Do you know the RMAN Recovery advisor? It detects the problems, and then you: RMAN> list failure; RMAN> advise failure; RMAN> repair failure; You need to have a failure detected. You can run Health Check if(…)

Oracle 12c – Why you shouldn’t do a crosscheck archivelog all in your regular RMAN backup scripts

By William Sescu Crosschecking in RMAN is quite cool stuff. With the RMAN crosscheck you can update an outdated RMAN repository about backups or archivelogs whose repository records do not match their physical status. For example, if a user removes(…)

Oracle 12c – Recreating a Controlfile in a Data Guard environment with noresetlogs

By William Sescu Sometimes you might run into situations where the controlfile does not represent the backups and archivelogs correctly, because of a mismatch of the control_file_record_keep_time and the RMAN retention. The controlfile has non circular and a circular records.