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In a project I have to move an Oracle 11.2.0.4-DB (around 7TB in size) from Sparc Solaris (called Source in the remainder of this Blog) to Linux x86-64 (called Target in the remainder of the Blog). I.e. a platform migration from Big Endian to Little Endian. A good method to do that is described in My Oracle Support Note 1389592.1: 11G – Reduce Transportable Tablespace Downtime using Cross Platform Incremental Backup Basically I copy the…
Do you know the RMAN Recovery advisor? It detects the problems, and then you: RMAN> list failure; RMAN> advise failure; RMAN> repair failure; You need to have a failure detected. You can run Health Check if it was not detected automatically (see https://blog.dbi-services.com/oracle-12c-rman-list-failure-does-not-show-any-failure-even-if-there-is-one/). In 12.2 you can run the repair directly, by specifying what you want to repair.
Crosschecking in RMAN is quite cool stuff. With the RMAN crosscheck you can update an outdated RMAN repository about backups or archivelogs whose repository records do not match their physical status. For example, if a user removes archived logs from disk with an operating system command, the repository (RMAN controlfile or RMAN catalog) still indicates that the logs are on disk, when in fact they are not. It is important to know, that the RMAN…
Sometimes you might run into situations where the controlfile does not represent the backups and archivelogs correctly, because of a mismatch of the control_file_record_keep_time and the RMAN retention. The controlfile has non circular and a circular records. Non circular are e.g. database information, redo threads, datafiles and so on. These non circular records don’t age out, however, they can be reused, e.g. when a tablespace is dropped. The circular records are e.g. the log history,…
I do have a Data Guard environment, where I have configured the RMAN DB_UNIQUE_NAME persistent setting for my primary and the standby. With the RMAN DB_UNIQUE_NAME settings I am able to run reports my Oracle Data Guard environment from any database. I could e.g. list all archivelogs for SITE1 from SITE2 or the other ways around. Or I could show all persistent settings for SITE1 from SITE2 and of course the other way around. The…
When I don’t need I feature, I don’t turn it on, or do not use it because it reduces the possibility to run into issues. Most of the times this is true, however, during the preparation for an RMAN workshop, the RMAN list failure command showed me the following dictionary issue. RMAN> list failure; using target database control file instead of recovery catalog Database Role: PRIMARY List of Database Failures ========================= Failure ID Priority Status…
Relying to much on the RMAN Data Recovery Advisor is not always the best idea. In a lot of situations, it tells you the right things, however, sometimes it tells you not the optimal things, and sometimes, RMAN list failure does not show any failure at all, even if there is one. So … let’s simulate quickly a loss of a datafile during the normal runtime of the database. The result is a clear error…
Not to often, but sometimes you need to offload your RMAN backups and your DataPump exports to CIFS. You might run out of space on your NFS server, or you are a Windows shop who has only CIFS shares, and then you might need to put your RMAN backups to CIFS. One very important MOS Note regarding RMAN backups to CIFS is the following Is use of CIFS Protocol for RMAN backups supported? (Doc ID…
I am planning to backup my 12R2 container database, because a huge application change is coming up, and I want to be sure that I have a good RMAN backup beforehand. For that particular DB, I want to do it with a cold backup in combination with RMAN tags. Unfortunately I don’t have any backups at the moment, so I start with a full backup with the TAG ‘DBI_BACKUP’ to be 100% that I restore…
From the RMAN point of view, you have generally two possibilities to store your backups, on Disk or on Tape. In case of a single instance, it doesn’t really matter from the accessible or inaccessible point of view. However, in a DataGuard environment it makes a huge difference. Per default, backups to Tape are always accessible and backups to disk always inaccessible. But what do you do in case you backup to NFS, and you…
