Moving RMAN Disk Backup Files
- From: "Stahlke, Mark" <mstahlke@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 14 Jul 2005 07:10:53 -0600
Greetings,
This question pertains to Oracle 9.2.0.4 on Winblows.
Is there a way to convince RMAN to use backup files from a location other
than where they were created?
I was duplicating a database from an old RMAN backup on a Windows system
that has an entirely different disk configuration than the server it
normally runs on. The RMAN backups are written to d:\oracle\backups. When I
tried to restore the database on the new box, RMAN insisted on looking for
the backup files in d:\oracle\backups. Unfortunately, the d: drive on the
new machine is a CDROM. Try as I might, I couldn't find a way to make RMAN
look somewhere else for the backup files. Eventually I got around the
problem by disabling the CDROM and mapping a network drive as d: to the c:
drive. This worked but it seems like a Mickey Mouse solution.
Did I miss something easy? Is there a way to tell RMAN where to find the
backup files?
Cheers,
Mark Stahlke
Oracle D'ohBA
Denver Newspaper Agency
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