Re: RMAN: restoring autobackup spfile and controlfile
- From: "Alex Gorbachev" <ag@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "Allen, Brandon" <Brandon.Allen@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 1 Aug 2007 14:45:58 -0400
Good hint. Thanks Brandon.
What's my concern is that without using RMAN catalog, it would be able
to scan available pieces from Netbackup (or whatever is the storage
manager) and find the required piece.
On 8/1/07, Allen, Brandon <Brandon.Allen@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Just a tip in case you're not already familiar with this - if you try
> restoring from autobackup w/o specifying the backup piece, it can take a
> long time for rman to search backwards through the catalog from 255 to 0
> looking for the latest autobackup sequence on each day. The workaround
> is to set the maxseq parameter, like this (as documented in Metalink
> 393947.1):
>
> restore spfile from autobackup maxseq=02;
>
> Regards,
> Brandon
>
>
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> Btw, were you able to restore controlfile knowing just DBID and no names
> for the autobackup piece(s)?
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