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 the PDB named pdborig. The target CDB is PSI18. The first step consist in running a rman backup on pdborig:…
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 time ‘sysdate’;
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/ [RCAT12C] rman catalog rcat/manager Recovery Manager: Release 12.2.0.1.0 connected to recovery catalog database RMAN> import catalog rcat/manager@RCAT11G; Starting import catalog…
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: Release 11.2.0.4.0 oracle@vmtestoradg1:/home/oracle/ [RCAT12C] sqh SQL*Plus: Release 12.2.0.1.0 Current configuration Displaying the list of databases registered in the RCAT11g catalog. SQL> select instance_name from v$instance; INSTANCE_NAME…
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 from Big Endian to Little Endian. A good method to do that is described in My Oracle Support Note 1389592.1:…
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 it was not detected automatically (see https://www.dbi-services.com/blog/oracle-12c-rman-list-failure-does-not-show-any-failure-even-if-there-is-one/). In 12.2 you can run the repair directly, by specifying what you want…
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 With the RMAN crosscheck you can update an outdated RMAN repository about backups or archivelogs whose repository records do not match their physical status.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 archived logs from disk with an operating system command, the repository (RMAN controlfile or RMAN catalog) still indicates that the…
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. Non circular are e.g. database information, redo threads, datafiles and so on. These non circular records don’t age out, however,…
By William Sescu I do have a Data Guard environment, where I have configured the RMAN DB_UNIQUE_NAME persistent setting for my primary and the standby. With the RMAN DB_UNIQUE_NAME settings I am able to run reports my Oracle Data Guard environment from any database. I could e.g. list all archivelogs for SITE1 from SITE2 or the other ways around. Or…
By William Sescu When I don’t need I feature, I don’t turn it on, or do not use it because it reduces the possibility to run into issues. Most of the times this is true, however, during the preparation for an RMAN workshop, the RMAN list failure command showed me the following dictionary issue. RMAN> list failure; using target database…
By William Sescu Relying to much on the RMAN Data Recovery Advisor is not always the best idea. In a lot of situations, it tells you the right things, however, sometimes it tells you not the optimal things, and sometimes, RMAN list failure does not show any failure at all, even if there is one. So … let’s simulate quickly…
By William Sescu Not to often, but sometimes you need to offload your RMAN backups and your DataPump exports to CIFS. You might run out of space on your NFS server, or you are a Windows shop who has only CIFS shares, and then you might need to put your RMAN backups to CIFS. One very important MOS Note regarding…
