Re: Help with an RMAN restore


8.1.7 is not "ooooooooold crap"    It is still quite respectable.

The ORA-1460 error is coming from your Recovery Catalog.
If  you are using a Recovery Catalog,  RMAN queries and updates the Catalog
in the same manner as any normal SQL queries and updates to an Application Schema. 
The RMAN catalog is nothing but a schema inside a database instead of
structures inside a controlfile.

Find out why the Catalog returns ORA-1460.
Did you convert from 32bit to 64bit ?  (is  the RMAN client one side
and the Catalog running a different size) ?  See Bug#5945072 for clues.

OR are you using differing NLS character sets ?

Trace your RMAN session in the Catalog database.
Lookup MetaLink for ORA-1460 errors.

HEmant

At 03:45 PM Friday, you wrote:
Ok, so I'm trying to restore a datafile from an rman backup. It's on oooooold crap! It's 8.1.7 on SunOS 5.7. Here is my syntax: 

run{
allocate channel ch1 type "SBT_TAPE"
parms 'ENV=(NSR_SERVER=satpcztape1.domain)';
sql 'ALTER DATABASE DATAFILE 7 OFFLINE';
restore datafile 7;
recover datafile 7;
sql 'ALTER DATABASE DATAFILE 7 ONLINE';
release channel ch1;
}

Here is what I'm getting when I run it:

RMAN-03022: compiling command: allocate
RMAN-03023: executing command: allocate
RMAN-08030: allocated channel: ch1
RMAN-08500: channel ch1: sid=16 devtype=SBT_TAPE
RMAN-08526: channel ch1: BMO v3.0
RMAN-03022: compiling command: sql
RMAN-06162: sql statement: ALTER DATABASE DATAFILE 7 OFFLINE
RMAN-03023: executing command: sql
RMAN-03022: compiling command: restore
RMAN-03022: compiling command: IRESTORE
RMAN-03026: error recovery releasing channel resources
RMAN-08031: released channel: ch1
RMAN-00571: ===========================================================
RMAN-00569: =============== ERROR MESSAGE STACK FOLLOWS ===============
RMAN-00571: ===========================================================
RMAN-03002: failure during compilation of command
RMAN-03013: command type: restore
RMAN-03002: failure during compilation of command
RMAN-03013: command type: IRESTORE
RMAN-06004: ORACLE error from recovery catalog database: ORA-01460: unimplemented or unreasonable conversion requested
I don't get it. I've been looking up that last error in the stack and it keeps telling me that I have some kind of conversion (TO_CHAR, etc, etc...) and I don't!!
Please tell me someone has seen this and knows how to fix it. I want to get this done and go to sleep!! 

Thanks,

Scott



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