The problem is that the first run of the RMAN happens successfully and creates backup files in "/psoft/*u02*/...", but the second run looks for file in $OH/dbs (/psoft/*u01*). It is trying to recover files in OH/dbs. In the beginning (yesterday when I started testing) /psoft/u01 was where RMAN was doing the backup. I delete the old backups several times and rerun the RMAN. Somehow RMAN seems to want to restore in the original location of OH/dbs only in the second run. Is there any command to tell RMAN not to look in OH/dbs while doing the restore in the second run? I run crosscheck after deleting backups. RMAN *second* run looking for files in OH/dbs (/psoft/u01...) : ___________________________________________________________________________________________________ channel oem_disk_backup: starting incremental datafile backupset restore channel oem_disk_backup: specifying datafile copies to recover recovering datafile copy fno=00001 name=/psoft/u01/oracle10/app/product/10.2.0/dbs/data_D-ATES_I-2542000691_TS-SYSTEM_FNO-1_0aj8k74m recovering datafile copy fno=00002 name=/psoft/u01/oracle10/app/product/10.2.0/dbs/data_D-ATES_I-2542000691_TS-SYSTEM_FNO-2_0ej8k83a recovering datafile copy fno=00003 name=/psoft/u01/oracle10/app/product/10.2.0/dbs/data_D-ATES_I-2542000691_TS-SYSTEM_FNO-3_0fj8k84d recovering datafile copy fno=00004 name=/psoft/u01/oracle10/app/product/10.2.0/dbs/data_D-ATES_I-2542000691_TS-SYSTEM_FNO-4_02j8k597 recovering datafile copy fno=00005 name=/psoft/u01/oracle10/app/product/10.2.0/dbs/data_D-ATES_I-2542000691_TS-UNDOTBS1_FNO-5_0gj8k8 5g recovering datafile copy fno=00006 name=/psoft/u01/oracle10/app/product/10.2.0/dbs/data_D-ATES_I-2542000691_TS-SYSAUX_FNO-6_03j8k5bj recovering datafile copy fno=00007 name=/psoft/u01/oracle10/app/product/10.2.0/dbs/data_D-ATES_I-2542000691_TS-TSBIG_FNO-7_0sj8kcsh recovering datafile copy fno=00008 name=/psoft/u01/oracle10/app/product/10.2.0/dbs/data_D-ATES_I-2542000691_TS-TSBIG_FNO-8_16j8kt9o channel oem_disk_backup: reading from backup piece /psoft/u02/oracle10g/cds/ATES/bkup/1jj8mftv_1_1 released channel: oem_disk_backup RMAN-00571: =========================================================== RMAN-00569: =============== ERROR MESSAGE STACK FOLLOWS =============== RMAN-00571: =========================================================== RMAN-03002: failure of recover command at 02/14/2008 11:51:08 ORA-19870: error reading backup piece /psoft/u02/oracle10g/cds/ATES/bkup/1jj8mftv_1_1 ORA-19625: error identifying file /psoft/u01/oracle10/app/product/10.2.0/dbs/data_D-ATES_I-2542000691_TS-SYSTEM_FNO-4_02j8k597 ORA-27037: unable to obtain file status HP-UX Error: 2: No such file or directory Additional information: 3 ________________________________________________________________________________________________ My run part of the RMAN script now looks like this: _____________________________________________________________________ run { allocate channel oem_disk_backup device type disk; configure CHANNEL device type 'SBT_TAPE' clear; sql 'alter system switch logfile'; CONFIGURE CHANNEL DEVICE TYPE DISK CLEAR; configure channel 1 device type disk clear; configure CHANNEL device type disk format '/psoft/u02/oracle10g/cds/ATES/bkup/%U'; recover copy of database with tag 'incr_ates'; CONFIGURE CHANNEL DEVICE TYPE DISK CLEAR; configure channel 1 device type disk clear; backup as compressed backupset incremental level 1 cumulative copies=1 tag 'incr_ates' for recover of copy with tag 'incr_ates' format '/psoft/u02/oracle10g/cds/ATES/bkup/%U' database plus archivelog delete input; sql 'alter system switch logfile'; } _____________________________________________________________________________________ On 2/14/08, Andy Rivenes <arivenes@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > > It might have to do with your saved configuration. Try a "show all" > to see what is set, and then you can run a "CLEAR", like you did for > the SBT_TAPE setting, for the setting(s) that you want to reset. > > > At 08:03 PM 2/13/2008, Ram Raman wrote: > >Hi all, > > > >I am trying to simulate what is in production in dev box and test > >out the existing setup. We have Oracle <http://10.2.0.2>10.2.0.2. > >ATES is a small database that I created in dev. Here is the script > >that I take backup with: > > > >______________________________________________________________________ > > > >/psoft/u02/oracle10g/cds/ATES $ cat backup_ATES.sh > >export ORACLE_HOME=/psoft/u01/oracle10/app/product/10.2.0 > >export ORACLE_SID=ATES > >export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$ORACLE_HOME/lib > > > >$ORACLE_HOME/bin/rman <<EOF > > > >#connect catalog <mailto:rman/xxxx@rmanprd>rman/xxxx@rmanprd; > >connect target; > > > >run { > >allocate channel oem_disk_backup device type disk; > >configure CHANNEL device type 'SBT_TAPE' clear; > >sql 'alter system switch logfile'; > >configure CHANNEL device type disk format > >'/psoft/u02/oracle10g/cds/ATES/bkup/%U'; > >recover copy of database with tag 'incr_ates'; > >backup as compressed backupset > > incremental level 1 cumulative copies=1 tag 'incr_ates' > > for recover of copy with tag 'incr_ates' > > format '/psoft/u02/oracle10g/cds/ATES/bkup/%U' > > database plus archivelog delete input; > >sql 'alter system switch logfile'; > > } > >exit > >EOF > > >