Funny, I just read an AskTom post yesterday where he recommended against naming your redo logs with the .log extension for this very reason. On 5/3/07 3:01 PM, Rick Weiss wrote: > Thanks to all for the help -the FM gave me the quickest work-around: > > RESTORE DATABASE DEVICE TYPE DISK; > > I will check the SHOW ALL output and set the configuration to use disk as the > default, but I am in the middle of the restore process right now. The cause > of my problem was an erroneous rm *.log that whacked all the redologs by an > analyst trying to clean out a bunch of Oracle Warehouse Builder ETL log files. > > Thanks for all of your fine responses, as usual ORACLE-L is the best. > > > > Rick Weiss > Oracle Database Administrator > > Student Assistance Foundation > P.O.Box 203101 > 2500 Broadway > Helena, MT 59620-3101 > > rweiss@xxxxxxxxx > (406) 495-7356 > >>>> >>> "Reidy, Ron" <Ron.Reidy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 5/3/2007 1:48 PM >>> > Rick, > We need to see the results of "show all;" from RMAN. My guess is that your > recovery catalog thinks the backups are to tape, but your configuration shows > disk. > rr > > > From: oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On > Behalf Of Rick Weiss > Sent: Thursday, May 03, 2007 12:41 PM > To: oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > Subject: RMAN Recovery > > > I finally get the chance to recover from a failure and it turns out to be the > worst kind - DW (NOARCHIVELOG) > > > > 10.2 on RedHat > > > > I am using Robert's excellent RMAN book (which was delivered to me from Amazon > only a week ago), but my RMAN isn't cooperating. I have good backups from a > while back and have done these steps: > > - Flushed the data files > > - restored my control files > > - startup mount; on the database > > > > When I try to restore the database from disk backup, RMAN does this: > > > > > --------------- Jason Heinrich Oracle Database Administrator Pensacola Christian College (850) 478-8496 x2509 jheinrich@xxxxxxxx