Re: RMAN question: restore backupset from tape to disk

  • From: "David Barbour" <david.barbour1@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: dd.yakkali@xxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Thu, 17 Jul 2008 11:18:43 -0400

If you access the drive through the regular system utilities you might be
able to use the dd command.

On Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 5:32 PM, dd yakkali <dd.yakkali@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Hello RMAN gurus:
>
>
>  is there any way through rman you can copy a backupset from disk to tape?
>
>
>
> I have some weird situation. I have logical corruption in database (
> 10.2.0.4 on solaris 10, 11.1.0.6 ASM )
> so I did the following
>
> run {
> allocate channel d1 type disk;
> backup check logical validate database;
> release channel d1;
> }
>
> v$database_block_corruption listed 121 blocks
>
> Then we did the following
>
> run {
> allocate channel sbt DEVICE TYPE 'SBT_TAPE' parms
> 'ENV=(NSR_SERVER=searchbu,NSR_GROUP=RMAN-DD)' FORMAT
> 'DF_%d_ID%I_%T_t%t_s%s_p%p.BKP';
> blockrecover corruption list;
> }
>
>
> and it is getting hung while reading a backup set. Here is the log. We use
> networker oracle module to backup to tape.
>
> channel sbt: restoring block(s)
> channel sbt: specifying block(s) to restore from backup set
> restoring blocks of datafile 00004
> channel sbt: reading from backup piece
> DF_DVRPROD_ID3409228420_20080711_t659752995_s134_p1.BKP
>
>
> Now to rule out the media or networker issues we want to first restore the
> backup set DF_DVRPROD_ID3409228420_20080711_t659752995_s134_p1.BKP directly
> to disk to see if the tape is alright. BTW networker is not reporting any
> errors while rman is hung.
>
> is there any way through rman you can copy a backupset from disk to tape?
> we tried to user networker recover command, but it does not restore that
> file.
>
>
> Thanks a lot for your help.
> Deen
>

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