NOARCHIVELOG DATABASE RECOVERY VIA RMAN

Your database is running in No Archive log mode and you have daily/weekly RMAN backup configured. One fine day, your server crashed and you lose one of the disks or all the disks. You have no other option but to restore the whole database backup to point of last valid backup.

rman target / catalog rman10/rman10@rman10s Recovery Manager: Release 10.1.0.3.0 - Production Copyright (c) 1995, 2004, Oracle. All rights reserved. Connected to target database (not started) Connected to recovery catalog database
RMAN> RMAN> RUN { STARTUP NOMOUNT FORCE; ALLOCATE CHANNEL CH1 DEVICE TYPE 'SBT_TAPE' PARMS 'ENV=(TDPO_OPTFILE=/opt/tivoli/tsm/client/oracle/bin/tdpo.orcld.op t)'; RESTORE SPFILE; SHUTDOWN IMMEDIATE; STARTUP NOMOUNT; RESTORE CONTROLFILE; ALTER DATABASE MOUNT; RESTORE DATABASE; ALTER DATABASE OPEN RESETLOGS; } Startup failed: ORA-01078: failure in processing system parameters LRM-00109: could not open parameter file '/freespace/ORACLE/OCM/prod10gr1/dbs/initorcl.ora' Trying to start the Oracle instance without parameter files...

Oracle instance started Total System Global Area 142606336 bytes Fixed Size 778072 bytes Variable Size 70525096 bytes Database Buffers 67108864 bytes Redo Buffers 4194304 bytes Allocated channel: CH1 Channel CH1: Sid=28 devtype=DISK Starting restore at 11-FEB-07 Channel CH1: starting datafile backupset restore Channel CH1: restoring SPFILE Output filename=/freespace/ORACLE/OCM/prod10gr1/dbs/spfileorcl.ora Channel CH1: restored backup piece 1 Piece handle=/freespace/ORACLE/OCM/orcl/ORCL.20070211.8.1.1.614285217 tag=TAG20070211T184641 Channel CH1: restore complete Finished restore at 11-FEB-07 Oracle instance shut down connected to target database (not started) Oracle instance started Total System Global Area Fixed Size Variable Size Database Buffers Redo Buffers 1241513984 bytes

778896 bytes 347348336 bytes 889192448 bytes 4194304 bytes

Starting restore at 11-FEB-07 allocated channel: ORA_DISK_1 Channel ORA_DISK_1: Sid=159 devtype=DISK Channel ORA_DISK_1: starting datafile backupset restore Channel ORA_DISK_1: restoring controlfile Channel ORA_DISK_1: restored backup piece 1 Piece handle=/freespace/ORACLE/OCM/orcl/ORCL.20070211.8.1.1.614285217 tag=TAG20070211T184641 Channel ORA_DISK_1: restore complete

Output filename=/freespace/ORACLE/OCM/orcl/control01.ctl Output filename=/freespace/ORACLE/OCM/orcl/control02.ctl Output filename=/freespace/ORACLE/OCM/orcl/control03.ctl Finished restore at 11-FEB-07 Database mounted Released channel: ORA_DISK_1 Starting restore at 11-FEB-07 Allocated channel: ORA_DISK_1 Channel ORA_DISK_1: Sid=159 devtype=DISK Channel ORA_DISK_1: starting datafile backupset restore Channel ORA_DISK_1: specifying datafile(s) to restore from backup set Restoring datafile 00001 to /freespace/ORACLE/OCM/orcl/system01.dbf Restoring datafile 00002 to /freespace/ORACLE/OCM/orcl/undotbs01.dbf Restoring datafile 00003 to /freespace/ORACLE/OCM/orcl/sysaux01.dbf Restoring datafile 00004 to /freespace/ORACLE/OCM/orcl/users01.dbf Channel ORA_DISK_1: restored backup piece 1 Piece handle=/freespace/ORACLE/OCM/orcl/ORCL.20070211.7.1.1.614285202 tag=TAG20070211T184641 Channel ORA_DISK_1: restore complete Finished restore at 11-FEB-07 Database opened New incarnation of database registered in recovery catalog Starting full resync of recovery catalog Full resync complete