please specify point 6. if you have your redo-logs and controlfile available - it will recover until the state of your point 5. - so the table is gone. - maybe you want to note down SCN at any of your steps and ckeck which SCN you have at point 8? Martin On Mon, May 12, 2014 at 8:51 PM, Chris King <ckaj111@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > This is probably a real newbie question.. I'm working on a new > installation of RAC, and am testing an rman backup/restore. (I've done many > rman backup/restores before on stand-alones.) I am puzzled why the process > seems to go thru without error, but the data is not actually restored. Does > anyone have a clue what I'm missing? > > I have a two node rac installation, and am storing the backups using ASM. > I did all the work on node1 only.. Here are the steps. > > 1. log on to rac node1. create a table named tester. and insert 3 rows > into the table, commit. > 2. alter system switch logfile; > 3. do a full rman backup + an incremental (from rac node1) > -- backups are stored in ASM > 4. drop the table named tester. (from rac node1) > 5. shutdown the database, mount one instance only (rac node1) > 6. restore database; recover database; alter database open; (on rac node1) > 7. bring up the instance on node2 as well. > 8. connect on node1 and select * from tester -- the table does not exist. > > Any idea what I'm missing? Thanks in advance.. > > ChrisK > > > -- Martin Berger martin.a.berger@xxxxxxxxx Lederergasse 27/2/14 +43 660 660 83306 1080 Wien http://berxblog.blogspot.com