recatalogging rman backupset pieces in 9i

  • From: "Adams, Matthew (GE, Appl & Light)" <MATT.ADAMS@xxxxxx>
  • To: "oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Thu, 3 Jul 2014 18:05:39 +0000

Scenerio:  rebuilding a 9i database after complete systems failure.  Control 
files and   Data files from last rman complete backup have been restored.   
Attempt to recover forward to the point of failure (or as close as we can get). 
  Not using a catalog, and obviously,  control files do not know about archive 
log backups done since last full backup.    The archive log backups were done 
as sets, not individual files.

I know that in 9i, rman did not support re-catalogging backup sets, only 
individual files.

Is there any way around this?  I need to either get the information about 
backupset pieces into the control files, or extract the individual archived 
redo log files from them, so I could to the recovery manually.

Any suggestions would be appreciated.

Matt Adams

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