Purpose
Scope and Application
Introduction
Creation Of Rman Duplicate Without Target And Recovery Catalog Connection.
Process involved in this type of duplicate database
The steps involved in creating the duplicate database are as follows
Applies to:
Oracle Server - Enterprise Edition - Version: 11.2.0.1.0 to 11.2.0.1.0 - Release: 11.2 to 11.2
Information in this document applies to any platform.
Purpose
The following document provides clear explanation and steps
necessary for creating a Rman duplicate database without target and
recovery catalog connections.
Scope and Application
***Checked for relevance on 16-Nov-2011***
Introduction
Rman 11g release 2
provides us the flexibility of creating the rman duplicate without
connecting to the target database and recovery catalog.
All rman
needs here is the location of the backup pieces which is accessible and
rman reads the backup pieces and restores the
spfile,controlfile,datafiles and archivelog files to perform. the
duplicate operation.
An example for this kind of duplicate operation is:
RMAN>DUPLICATE DATABASE TO dup11r2
UNTIL TIME "TO_DATE('29-MAY-2010 14:16:42','DD-MON-YYYYHH24:MI:SS')"
SPFILE
set control_files='D:\dup11r2\c1.ctl'
set db_file_name_convert='D:\Database\Ora11g2\ora11g2','d:\dup11r2'
set log_file_name_convert='D:\Database\Ora11g2\ora11g2','d:\dup11r2'
BACKUP LOCATION 'D:\dup11r2';
Here
use of the BACKUP LOCATION clause identifies the type of duplication as
having no target connection, no recovery catalog and being
backup-based.
Creation Of Rman Duplicate Without Target And Recovery Catalog Connection.
Process involved in this type of duplicate database
++ Rman restores the spfile from the backup pieces located in the mentioned location.
++ Once the spfile is restored, rman sets appropriate values to the parameters mentioned the duplicate command. For example:
db_name
control_files
db_file_name_convert
log_file_name_convert
etc ...
Once done, rman restarts the instance to no mount so that the changes can take effect.
++
Rman now changes the value of the parameter db_name to the target
database name to achieve the restore of the controlfile. The restored
controlfile will have the db_name as of the target database name and
since we cannot have a different db_name in the spfile and in the
controlfile, rman will have to set the parameter db_name to the target
database name and perform. the restore of the datafiles and controlfiles.
Also
here if the duplicate is happening on the same machine, then 2
controlfiles with the same db_name cannot be mounted. In order to
achieve this the auxiliary instance will have the parameter
db_unique_name set to a unique value. Rman takes care of this sets the
db_uniqiue_name to the database name specified for the auxiliary
database.
++ After the above operation,controlfile is restored
from the backup piece to the location provided for the parameter
control_files.
++ Now Rman restores the datafiles to the locations specified by the parameter log_file_name_convert.
++ Recovery of the datafiles are performed.
++
Once the recovery is completed, rman shuts down the database to reset
the value of db_name to the value provided for the auxiliary database.
++
Once this is done, the database is taken to no mount phase and the
controlfile is recreated to change the database name and the id.This is
followed by the database getting opened with resetlogs.
The steps involved in creating the duplicate database are as follows
1) Take a backup of the database as follows:
RMAN > backup database plus archivelog;
2) Making the backup pieces available for duplicate operation.
++ If the duplicate is going to happen on different
server, move the backup pieces to a new server using commands like
ftp,scp etc.
++ If the duplicate is going to happen on the same
server as target, then you can either retain them in the same location
where the backup was done or copy it to a required location.
3) Create a password file for the auxiliary instance.
For unix copy the password file from the target database to $ORACLE_HOME/dbs and rename it.
For windows copy the password file from the target database to %ORACLE_HOME/database and rename it.
4) Create a initialization parameter for the auxiliary instance with only one parameter DB_NAME.
DB_NAME=dup11r2
5) Now start the auxiliary instance to no mount mode.
Unix Example
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Just set the environment variables and start the instance.
% export ORACLE_SID=dup11r2
% export ORACLE_HOME=/home/oracle/ora11g
% export PATH=$ORACLE_HOME/bin:$PATH
% sqlplus "/as sysdba"
SQL > startup nomount
Windows Example
===============
Create a service and then set the necessary environment variables and start the instance.
% oradim -new -sid dup11r2
set ORACLE_SID=dup11r2
set ORACLE_HOME=D:\Orahome\Ora11gr2
set PATH=D:\Orahome\Ora11gr2\bin;%PATH%
% sqlplus "/as sysdba"
SQL > startup nomount
6) Connect to the auxiliary instance from RMAN and perform. the rman duplicate as follows:
EXAMPLE
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% rman auxiliary /
RMAN > DUPLICATE DATABASE TO dup11r2
UNTIL TIME "TO_DATE('29-MAY-2010 14:16:42','DD-MON-YYYY HH24:MI:SS')"
SPFILE
set control_files='D:\dup11r2\c1.ctl'
set db_file_name_convert='D:\Database\Ora11g2\ora11g2','d:\dup11r2'
set log_file_name_convert='D:\Database\Ora11g2\ora11g2','d:\dup11r2'
BACKUP LOCATION 'D:\dup11r2'
;