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Introduction RMAN backups are not a hot topic today. This is because it didn’t evolve that much in 12c/18c/19c, and most of the databases are now protected by a good backup strategy since years, and no changes are needed. Furthermore, Disaster Recovery solutions are more and more deployed, and all the flashback technologies embeded in the database are well known. This has pushed the need for RMAN restore to the very latest option in case…
Nowadays I have been working on an interesting customer project where I had to migrate windows oracle standard databases to ODA. The ODAs are X7-2M Models, running version 18.5. This version is coming with Red Hat Enterprise Linx 6.10 (Santiago). Both windows databases and target ODA databases are running PSU 11.2.0.4.190115. But this would definitively also be working for oracle 12c and oracle 18c databases. The databases are licensed with Standard Edition, so migrating through…
Point-In-Time Recovery is also possible in a multitenant environment. As in Non-CDB, a recovery catalog can be used or not. In this blog we will see how to recover a dropped tablespace in a PDB. We will also see the importance of using a recovery catalog or not. A PITR of a PDB does not affect remaining PBDs. That means that while doing a PITR in PDB, people can use the other PDBs. In this…
The Oracle Multitenant architecture came with Oracle 12c a few years ago. For people usually working with traditional Non-CDB database it might be confusing the first time to do Backup and Recovery with pluggable databases (PDBs) In this document we are trying to explain how to use RMAN backup and recovery in a multitenant environment for an oracle 19c database with 2 pluggable databases. Below the configuration we are using. SQL> show pdbs CON_ID CON_NAME…
Introduction Oracle & Linux is a great duet. Very powerfull, very scriptable. Here are several commands that make my life easier. These tools seems to be widespread on most of the Linux distributions. watch with diff It’s my favorite tool since a long time. watch can repeat a command indefinitely until you stop it with Ctrl+C. And it’s even more useful with the – -diff parameter. All the differences since last run are highlighted. For…
At one client’s site, I had to restore a table someone had partially deleted one week before. Before Oracle 12c, we had to duplicate the target database to another server, and then to export and import data to the target database. But depending on the database size, it could cost a lot of time, and as nobody knew when the delete action happened, it was more practical to use the rman recover table command in…
One of our customer has been initially creating a RMAN catalog on an Oracle database release 12.1.0.2.0 and was now intending to register new Oracle 12.2.0.1.0 databases. Registering the databases will be failing with errors : PL/SQL package RCAT.DBMS_RCVCAT version 12.01.00.02 in RCVCAT database is too old RMAN-06429: RCVCAT database is not compatible with this version of RMAN
It should never happen but sometimes it happens. You just lost your datafiles as well as your fast recovery area (probably because most of the time these areas are on the same disks despite the recommendations). Normal restore operations with RMAN are quite easy and secure as far as you have backupsets for database, archivelogs, and spfile/controlfile: Step 1 – restore the spfile and start the instance Step 2 – restore the controlfile and mount…
Backup on disk with RMAN is great. It’s fast, you can set as many channels as your platform can handle for faster backups. And you can restore as fast as you can read and write files on disk with these multiple channels. As far as you’re using Enterprise Edition because Standard Edition is stuck to a single channel. Disk space is very often limited and you’ll probably have to find another solution to keep backups…
With Oracle 18c, it is possible to use PDB rman backups created on the source CDB (they are called PREPLUGIN backups) when the PDB has been relocated to a target CDB. In my environment, my original CDB is DB18, with the PDB named pdborig. The target CDB is PSI18. The first step consist in running a rman backup on pdborig: [email protected]:/u00/app/oracle/ [DB18] rman target sys/[email protected] Recovery Manager: Release 18.0.0.0.0 – Production on Tue May 15…
