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

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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.o
pt)';
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 1241513984 bytes

Fixed Size 778896 bytes

Variable Size 347348336 bytes
Database Buffers 889192448 bytes
Redo Buffers 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