Restore the SPFILE

RMAN> startup nomount force;

startup failed: ORA-01078: failure in processing system parameters
LRM-00109: could not open parameter file '/u01/app/oracle/product/11.2.0/dbhome_
2/dbs/initsqlfun.ora'
starting Oracle instance without parameter file for retrieval of spfile
Oracle instance started
Total System Global Area

158662656 bytes

Fixed Size
Variable Size
Database Buffers
Redo Buffers

2226456
104859368
46137344
5439488

bytes
bytes
bytes
bytes

RMAN> restore spfile from '/home/oracle/stage/o1_mf_s_819826669_8x7w7g70_.bkp';

Starting restore at 04-JUL-13
using target database control file instead of recovery catalog
allocated channel: ORA_DISK_1
channel ORA_DISK_1: SID=162 device type=DISK
channel ORA_DISK_1: restoring spfile from AUTOBACKUP /home/oracle/stage/o1_mf_s_
819826669_8x7w7g70_.bkp
channel ORA_DISK_1: SPFILE restore from AUTOBACKUP complete
Finished restore at 04-JUL-13
Create the PFILE from SPFILE and make parameter changes as required
$ sqlplus sys as sysdba
SQL*Plus: Release 11.2.0.3.0 Production on Thu Jul 4 09:43:48 2013
Copyright (c) 1982, 2011, Oracle. All rights reserved.
Enter password:
Connected to an idle instance.
SQL> create pfile from spfile;
File created.
Note- make required changes here in the init.ora file to take care of new direct
ories for control files, audit dump, fast recovery area etc
SQL> create spfile from pfile;
File created.
Restore the Control Files
RMAN> restore controlfile from '/home/oracle/stage/o1_mf_s_819826669_8x7w7g70_.b
kp';
Starting restore at 04-JUL-13
using target database control file instead of recovery catalog
allocated channel: ORA_DISK_1
channel ORA_DISK_1: SID=134 device type=DISK

channel ORA_DISK_1: restoring control file

channel ORA_DISK_1: restore complete, elapsed time: 00:00:01
output file name=/home/oracle/sqlfun/control01.ctl
output file name=/home/oracle/sqlfun/control02.ctl
Finished restore at 04-JUL-13
Mount the database and catalog the backup pieces which have been restored in the
new location
RMAN> alter database mount;
Generate the SET NEWNAME FOR DATAFILE command
Note:
Since the OSS backup image copy is based on Oracle Managed File format (OMF), I
find this error even though we have set the DB_FILE_NAME_CONVERT parameter to ac
count for the directory path change between source and target.
RMAN is not restoring the data files in the new location but is looking for the
directory path which existed on the source database, but which is not present on
the new or target server where we are doing the restore.

RMAN> restore database;

Starting restore at 04-JUL-13
using channel ORA_DISK_1
channel ORA_DISK_1: restoring datafile 00001
input datafile copy RECID=3060 STAMP=819884997 file name=/home/oracle/stage/o1_m
f_system_7zpgbh79_.dbf
destination for restore of datafile 00001: /u01/app/oracle/oradata/sqlfun/system
01.dbf
ORA-19504: failed to create file /u01/app/oracle/oradata/sqlfun/system01.dbf
ORA-27040: file create error, unable to create file
Linux-x86_64 Error: 2: No such file or directory
Additional information: 1
ORA-19600: input file is datafile-copy 3060 (/home/oracle/stage/o1_mf_system_7zp
gbh79_.dbf)
ORA-19601: output file is datafile 1 (/u01/app/oracle/oradata/sqlfun/system01.db
f)

So to work around this we will generate a text file via SQL*PLUS which will cont
ain the SET NEWNAME commands and call this file from RMAN.
These are the contents of the text file rename_files.sql
set head off pages 0 feed off echo off verify off
set lines 200
spool rename_datafiles.lst
select SET NEWNAME FOR DATAFILE
|| FILE# ||
TO
e,instr(name, / ,-1)+1) ||
; from v$datafile;
spool off
exit;

||

/home/oracle/sqlfun/ || substr(na

$ sqlplus sys as sysdba

SQL*Plus: Release 11.2.0.3.0 Production on Thu Jul 4 09:52:44 2013
Copyright (c) 1982, 2011, Oracle. All rights reserved.
Enter password:
Connected to:
Oracle Database 11g Enterprise Edition Release 11.2.0.3.0 - 64bit Production
With the Partitioning, OLAP, Data Mining and Real Application Testing options
SQL> @rename_files.sql
SET NEWNAME FOR DATAFILE
SET NEWNAME FOR DATAFILE
SET NEWNAME FOR DATAFILE
SET NEWNAME FOR DATAFILE
SET NEWNAME FOR DATAFILE
SET NEWNAME FOR DATAFILE
SET NEWNAME FOR DATAFILE
SET NEWNAME FOR DATAFILE

1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8

TO
TO
TO
TO
TO
TO
TO
TO

'/home/oracle/sqlfun/system01.dbf';
'/home/oracle/sqlfun/sysaux01.dbf';
'/home/oracle/sqlfun/undotbs01.dbf';
'/home/oracle/sqlfun/users01.dbf';
'/home/oracle/sqlfun/threatened_fauna_data.dbf';
'/home/oracle/sqlfun/example_temp01.dbf';
'/home/oracle/sqlfun/EXAMPLE_5';
'/home/oracle/sqlfun/INDEX_DATA_6';

Restore and Recover the database

Now pass this file name to the RMAN run block
RMAN> run {
2> @rename_datafiles.lst
3> SET NEWNAME FOR DATAFILE 1 TO '/home/oracle/sqlfun/system01.dbf';
4> SET NEWNAME FOR DATAFILE 2 TO '/home/oracle/sqlfun/sysaux01.dbf';
5> SET NEWNAME FOR DATAFILE 3 TO '/home/oracle/sqlfun/undotbs01.dbf';
6> SET NEWNAME FOR DATAFILE 4 TO '/home/oracle/sqlfun/users01.dbf';
7> SET NEWNAME FOR DATAFILE 5 TO '/home/oracle/sqlfun/threatened_fauna_data.dbf'
;
8> SET NEWNAME FOR DATAFILE 6 TO '/home/oracle/sqlfun/example_temp01.dbf';
9> SET NEWNAME FOR DATAFILE 7 TO '/home/oracle/sqlfun/EXAMPLE_5';
10> SET NEWNAME FOR DATAFILE 8 TO '/home/oracle/sqlfun/INDEX_DATA_6';
11> **end-of-file**
12> restore database;
13> switch datafile all;
14> recover database;
15> }
executing command: SET NEWNAME
executing command: SET NEWNAME
executing command: SET NEWNAME
executing command: SET NEWNAME
executing command: SET NEWNAME
executing command: SET NEWNAME
executing command: SET NEWNAME
executing command: SET NEWNAME

Starting restore at 04-JUL-13

using target database control file instead of recovery catalog
allocated channel: ORA_DISK_1
channel ORA_DISK_1: SID=125 device type=DISK
channel ORA_DISK_1: restoring datafile 00001
input datafile copy RECID=3060 STAMP=819884997 file name=/home/oracle/stage/o1_m
f_system_7zpgbh79_.dbf
destination for restore of datafile 00001: /home/oracle/sqlfun/system01.dbf
channel ORA_DISK_1: copied datafile copy of datafile 00001
output file name=/home/oracle/sqlfun/system01.dbf RECID=3061 STAMP=819885296
channel ORA_DISK_1: restoring datafile 00002
input datafile copy RECID=3053 STAMP=819884997 file name=/home/oracle/stage/o1_m
f_sysaux_7zpgb1hd_.dbf
destination for restore of datafile 00002: /home/oracle/sqlfun/sysaux01.dbf
channel ORA_DISK_1: copied datafile copy of datafile 00002
output file name=/home/oracle/sqlfun/sysaux01.dbf RECID=3062 STAMP=819885313
channel ORA_DISK_1: restoring datafile 00003
input datafile copy RECID=3054 STAMP=819884997 file name=/home/oracle/stage/o1_m
f_undotbs1_7zpgck9f_.dbf
destination for restore of datafile 00003: /home/oracle/sqlfun/undotbs01.dbf
channel ORA_DISK_1: copied datafile copy of datafile 00003
output file name=/home/oracle/sqlfun/undotbs01.dbf RECID=3063 STAMP=819885321
channel ORA_DISK_1: restoring datafile 00004
input datafile copy RECID=3057 STAMP=819884997 file name=/home/oracle/stage/o1_m
f_users_7zpgcnno_.dbf
destination for restore of datafile 00004: /home/oracle/sqlfun/users01.dbf
channel ORA_DISK_1: copied datafile copy of datafile 00004
output file name=/home/oracle/sqlfun/users01.dbf RECID=3064 STAMP=819885322
channel ORA_DISK_1: restoring datafile 00005
input datafile copy RECID=3056 STAMP=819884997 file name=/home/oracle/stage/o1_m
f_threaten_7zpgbyck_.dbf
destination for restore of datafile 00005: /home/oracle/sqlfun/threatened_fauna_
data.dbf
channel ORA_DISK_1: copied datafile copy of datafile 00005
output file name=/home/oracle/sqlfun/threatened_fauna_data.dbf RECID=3065 STAMP=
819885327
channel ORA_DISK_1: restoring datafile 00006
input datafile copy RECID=3059 STAMP=819884997 file name=/home/oracle/stage/o1_m
f_example__7zpgcg0x_.dbf
destination for restore of datafile 00006: /home/oracle/sqlfun/example_temp01.db
f
channel ORA_DISK_1: copied datafile copy of datafile 00006
output file name=/home/oracle/sqlfun/example_temp01.dbf RECID=3066 STAMP=8198853
31
channel ORA_DISK_1: restoring datafile 00007
input datafile copy RECID=3055 STAMP=819884997 file name=/home/oracle/stage/o1_m
f_example_7zgkdp6p_.dbf
destination for restore of datafile 00007: /home/oracle/sqlfun/EXAMPLE_5
channel ORA_DISK_1: copied datafile copy of datafile 00007
output file name=/home/oracle/sqlfun/EXAMPLE_5 RECID=3067 STAMP=819885334
channel ORA_DISK_1: restoring datafile 00008
input datafile copy RECID=3058 STAMP=819884997 file name=/home/oracle/stage/o1_m
f_index_da_7zgkcz04_.dbf
destination for restore of datafile 00008: /home/oracle/sqlfun/INDEX_DATA_6
channel ORA_DISK_1: copied datafile copy of datafile 00008
output file name=/home/oracle/sqlfun/INDEX_DATA_6 RECID=3068 STAMP=819885339
Finished restore at 04-JUL-13
datafile 1 switched to datafile copy

input datafile copy RECID=3069 STAMP=819885343

tem01.dbf
datafile 2 switched to datafile copy
input datafile copy RECID=3070 STAMP=819885343
aux01.dbf
datafile 3 switched to datafile copy
input datafile copy RECID=3071 STAMP=819885343
otbs01.dbf
datafile 4 switched to datafile copy
input datafile copy RECID=3072 STAMP=819885343
rs01.dbf
datafile 5 switched to datafile copy
input datafile copy RECID=3073 STAMP=819885343
eatened_fauna_data.dbf
datafile 6 switched to datafile copy
input datafile copy RECID=3074 STAMP=819885343
mple_temp01.dbf
datafile 7 switched to datafile copy
input datafile copy RECID=3075 STAMP=819885343
MPLE_5
datafile 8 switched to datafile copy
input datafile copy RECID=3076 STAMP=819885343
EX_DATA_6

file name=/home/oracle/sqlfun/sys
file name=/home/oracle/sqlfun/sys
file name=/home/oracle/sqlfun/und
file name=/home/oracle/sqlfun/use
file name=/home/oracle/sqlfun/thr
file name=/home/oracle/sqlfun/exa
file name=/home/oracle/sqlfun/EXA
file name=/home/oracle/sqlfun/IND

Starting recover at 04-JUL-13

using channel ORA_DISK_1
channel ORA_DISK_1: starting incremental datafile backup set restore
channel ORA_DISK_1: specifying datafile(s) to restore from backup set
destination for restore of datafile 00001: /home/oracle/sqlfun/system01.dbf
destination for restore of datafile 00002: /home/oracle/sqlfun/sysaux01.dbf
destination for restore of datafile 00007: /home/oracle/sqlfun/EXAMPLE_5
destination for restore of datafile 00008: /home/oracle/sqlfun/INDEX_DATA_6
channel ORA_DISK_1: reading from backup piece /home/oracle/stage/o1_mf_nnnd1_ORA
_OEM_LEVEL_0_8x7w65l9_.bkp
channel ORA_DISK_1: piece handle=/home/oracle/stage/o1_mf_nnnd1_ORA_OEM_LEVEL_0_
8x7w65l9_.bkp tag=ORA_OEM_LEVEL_0
channel ORA_DISK_1: restored backup piece 1
channel ORA_DISK_1: restore complete, elapsed time: 00:00:03
channel ORA_DISK_1: starting incremental datafile backup set restore
channel ORA_DISK_1: specifying datafile(s) to restore from backup set
destination for restore of datafile 00003: /home/oracle/sqlfun/undotbs01.dbf
channel ORA_DISK_1: reading from backup piece /home/oracle/stage/o1_mf_nnnd1_ORA
_OEM_LEVEL_0_8x7w6zcb_.bkp
channel ORA_DISK_1: piece handle=/home/oracle/stage/o1_mf_nnnd1_ORA_OEM_LEVEL_0_
8x7w6zcb_.bkp tag=ORA_OEM_LEVEL_0
channel ORA_DISK_1: restored backup piece 1
channel ORA_DISK_1: restore complete, elapsed time: 00:00:01
channel ORA_DISK_1: starting incremental datafile backup set restore
channel ORA_DISK_1: specifying datafile(s) to restore from backup set
destination for restore of datafile 00004: /home/oracle/sqlfun/users01.dbf
destination for restore of datafile 00005: /home/oracle/sqlfun/threatened_fauna_
data.dbf
channel ORA_DISK_1: reading from backup piece /home/oracle/stage/o1_mf_nnnd1_ORA
_OEM_LEVEL_0_8x7w76jv_.bkp
channel ORA_DISK_1: piece handle=/home/oracle/stage/o1_mf_nnnd1_ORA_OEM_LEVEL_0_
8x7w76jv_.bkp tag=ORA_OEM_LEVEL_0
channel ORA_DISK_1: restored backup piece 1
channel ORA_DISK_1: restore complete, elapsed time: 00:00:01
channel ORA_DISK_1: starting incremental datafile backup set restore
channel ORA_DISK_1: specifying datafile(s) to restore from backup set

destination for restore of datafile 00006: /home/oracle/sqlfun/example_temp01.db

f
channel ORA_DISK_1: reading from backup piece /home/oracle/stage/o1_mf_nnnd1_ORA
_OEM_LEVEL_0_8x7w7b0f_.bkp
channel ORA_DISK_1: piece handle=/home/oracle/stage/o1_mf_nnnd1_ORA_OEM_LEVEL_0_
8x7w7b0f_.bkp tag=ORA_OEM_LEVEL_0
channel ORA_DISK_1: restored backup piece 1
channel ORA_DISK_1: restore complete, elapsed time: 00:00:01
starting media recovery
archived log for thread 1 with sequence 33 is already on disk as file /u01/app/o
racle/flash_recovery_area/SQLFUN/archivelog/2013_07_04/2013_07_03/o1_mf_1_33_8x8
4ld7x_.arc
archived log for thread 1 with sequence 34 is already on disk as file /u01/app/o
racle/flash_recovery_area/SQLFUN/archivelog/2013_07_04/2013_07_03/o1_mf_1_34_8x8
d9y2h_.arc
archived log for thread 1 with sequence 35 is already on disk as file /u01/app/o
racle/flash_recovery_area/SQLFUN/archivelog/2013_07_04/2013_07_03/o1_mf_1_35_8x8
db3hp_.arc
archived log for thread 1 with sequence 36 is already on disk as file /u01/app/o
racle/flash_recovery_area/SQLFUN/archivelog/2013_07_04/2013_07_03/o1_mf_1_36_8x8
dbgcm_.arc
archived log file name=/u01/app/oracle/flash_recovery_area/SQLFUN/archivelog/201
3_07_04/2013_07_03/o1_mf_1_33_8x84ld7x_.arc thread=1 sequence=33
archived log file name=/u01/app/oracle/flash_recovery_area/SQLFUN/archivelog/201
3_07_04/2013_07_03/o1_mf_1_34_8x8d9y2h_.arc thread=1 sequence=34
archived log file name=/u01/app/oracle/flash_recovery_area/SQLFUN/archivelog/201
3_07_04/2013_07_03/o1_mf_1_35_8x8db3hp_.arc thread=1 sequence=35
archived log file name=/u01/app/oracle/flash_recovery_area/SQLFUN/archivelog/201
3_07_04/2013_07_03/o1_mf_1_36_8x8dbgcm_.arc thread=1 sequence=36
unable to find archived log
archived log thread=1 sequence=37
RMAN-00571: ===========================================================
RMAN-00569: =============== ERROR MESSAGE STACK FOLLOWS ===============
RMAN-00571: ===========================================================
RMAN-03002: failure of recover command at 07/04/2013 09:55:58
RMAN-06054: media recovery requesting unknown archived log for thread 1 with seq
uence 37 and starting SCN of 33985482
RMAN>
the error can be ignored as RMAN has applied all the available archive log files
and is now trying to apply a non-existent archive log file.
Open the database with RESETLOGS
The RESETLOGS command will fail because we do not have the same directory path w
hich existed on the source for the Online Redo Log files.
So we create a script which will generate the new online redo log file names.
These are the contents of the rename_logfiles.sql file
set head off pages 0 feed off echo off verify off
set lines 200
spool rename_logfiles.lst
select alter database rename file
|| member ||
||chr(10)||
substr(member,instr(member, / ,-1)+1) ||
; from v$logfile;
spool off
exit;
$ sqlplus sys as sysdba

TO

||

/home/oracle/sql

SQL*Plus: Release 11.2.0.3.0 Production on Thu Jul 4 10:05:17 2013

Copyright (c) 1982, 2011, Oracle. All rights reserved.
Enter password:
Connected to:
Oracle Database 11g Enterprise Edition Release 11.2.0.3.0 - 64bit Production
With the Partitioning, OLAP, Data Mining and Real Application Testing options
SQL> @rename_logfiles.sql
alter database rename file '/u01/app/oracle/oradata/sqlfun/redo03.log'
TO '/home/oracle/sqlfun/redo03.log';
alter database rename file '/u01/app/oracle/oradata/sqlfun/redo02.log'
TO '/home/oracle/sqlfun/redo02.log';
alter database rename file '/u01/app/oracle/oradata/sqlfun/redo01.log'
TO '/home/oracle/sqlfun/redo01.log';
Note
we can do all this from the RMAN prompt as well using the RMAN SQL command.
But for this example we do it from SQL*PLUS
$ sqlplus sys as sysdba
SQL*Plus: Release 11.2.0.3.0 Production on Thu Jul 4 10:50:44 2013
Copyright (c) 1982, 2011, Oracle. All rights reserved.
Enter password:
Connected to:
Oracle Database 11g Enterprise Edition Release 11.2.0.3.0 - 64bit Production
With the Partitioning, OLAP, Data Mining and Real Application Testing options
SQL> @rename_logfiles.lst
Database altered.
Database altered.
Database altered.
SQL> alter database open resetlogs;
Database altered.