RE: RMAN Restore with Incremental
- From: "Mercadante, Thomas F (LABOR)" <Thomas.Mercadante@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "Charlotte Hammond" <charlottejanehammond@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 2 Apr 2008 12:29:20 -0400
Charlotte,
In your specific case, the incremental gets used with the database files
that are on disk. You did not say what happened to your database that
made you decide to perform a restore. But Rman decided that it had
enough information with the files on disk and with just the incremental
backup to perform a recovery.
Again, Rman decided that it did not need to go farther back to the full
backup to perform your restore - it just did not need that information.
What made you decide to perform a restore? What specifically happened?
Tom
-----Original Message-----
From: Charlotte Hammond [mailto:charlottejanehammond@xxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Wednesday, April 02, 2008 11:10 AM
To: Mercadante, Thomas F (LABOR)
Cc: oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: RMAN Restore with Incremental
Hi Tom,
Thanks for your reply. Afraid I'm still confused.
Under what circumstances would an incremental backup be of use to RMAN
without the full backup? As far as I understand it, it simply contains
the changes since the preceeding base full backup was taken - I don't
see how that could ever be useful in isolation....
Thanks!
Charlotte
----- Original Message ----
From: "Mercadante, Thomas F (LABOR)"
<Thomas.Mercadante@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: charlottejanehammond@xxxxxxxxx
Sent: Wednesday, April 2, 2008 12:45:34 PM
Subject: RE: RMAN Restore with Incremental
Charlotte,
This sounds fine to me unless you completely lost data files. Rman uses
all available data to restore the database. This includes current redo
logs, archivelogs that have not be backed up and removed and finally
backups that it decides it needs to restore the database.
In your case, it did not need the full backup files to bring your
database back in synch.
So it "all depends" on what Rman decides is missing and what it needs to
recover the database.
Hope this helps.
Tom
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