Friday, we had to do a full restore and recovery of a production Oracle database. We used a script like this:
rman target / <<EOF
run {
allocate channel 'dev_0' type 'sbt_tape'
parms 'SBT_LIBRARY=/opt/omni/lib/libob2oracle8_64bit.so,ENV=(OB2BARTYPE=Oracle8,OB2APPNAME=MYDB,OB2BARLIST=VTL_myhost_MYDB_oral1)';
allocate channel 'dev_1' type 'sbt_tape'
parms 'SBT_LIBRARY=/opt/omni/lib/libob2oracle8_64bit.so,ENV=(OB2BARTYPE=Oracle8,OB2APPNAME=MYDB,OB2BARLIST=VTL_myhost_MYDB_oral1)';
allocate channel 'dev_2' type 'sbt_tape'
parms 'SBT_LIBRARY=/opt/omni/lib/libob2oracle8_64bit.so,ENV=(OB2BARTYPE=Oracle8,OB2APPNAME=MYDB,OB2BARLIST=VTL_myhost_MYDB_oral1)';
allocate channel 'dev_3' type 'sbt_tape'
parms 'SBT_LIBRARY=/opt/omni/lib/libob2oracle8_64bit.so,ENV=(OB2BARTYPE=Oracle8,OB2APPNAME=MYDB,OB2BARLIST=VTL_myhost_MYDB_oral1)';
allocate channel 'dev_4' type 'sbt_tape'
parms 'SBT_LIBRARY=/opt/omni/lib/libob2oracle8_64bit.so,ENV=(OB2BARTYPE=Oracle8,OB2APPNAME=MYDB,OB2BARLIST=VTL_myhost_MYDB_oral1)';
allocate channel 'dev_5' type 'sbt_tape'
parms 'SBT_LIBRARY=/opt/omni/lib/libob2oracle8_64bit.so,ENV=(OB2BARTYPE=Oracle8,OB2APPNAME=MYDB,OB2BARLIST=VTL_myhost_MYDB_oral1)';
restore database;
recover database
delete archivelog maxsize 100 G;
}
exit
EOF
We ran it like this:
nohup ./restoredb.sh > restoredb.txt &The only tricky thing was getting the allocate channel commands right to work with our backup system (HP Data Protector). We had old examples of past recoveries, and we looked in Data Protector to see how the backup job was setup and what output the last backup produced.
Some storage work that we were doing accidentally damaged a bunch of data files. Fortunately, our control files and redo logs were intact, so we were able to fully recover and did not lose any data.
Bobby
