Monday, June 1, 2015

Backup & Restore with RMAN

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since RMAN uses human-like language for interpreting the command you simply type :
  • backup database;
that's all. but we wanted to be more precise in case you may lose or something unexpected happened to "control file" you can do the following :
  • rman target /
  • RMAN> CONFIGURE CONTROLFILE AUTOBACKUP ON;
  • RMAN> BACKUP DATABASE PLUS ARCHIVELOG or BACKUP AS BACKUPSET DATABASE PLUS ARCHIVELOG;
you can also give name to your backups by adding a tag name:
  • RMAN> BACKUP DATABASE TAG ${YOUR_TAG_NAME};
also you can change your backup folder in two ways, ONE is to change youe backup directory in RMAN , second is in your script give the backup folder which
are as the followings :
  • RMAN> CONFIGURE CHANNEL DEVICE TYPE DISK FORMAT '/backup/rman/full_%u_%s_%p';
or
  • run {
allocate channel d1 type disk;
backup format '/YOUR/PATH/FOR/BACKUP/%U.bkp' database plus archivelog;
release channel d1;
}

NOTE : in order to do the RESTORING your database need to be in MOUNT state, you can do it as the following:
if database is running shut it down first : “shutdown transactional;”
startup mount;
Restore With RMAN
There are multiple way to restore a DB with RMAN but how can we restore backup when we donno how many backups do we have!!??
worry not, you can list all your backups with :

  • RMAN> list backup;
which gives you a list similar like below :
BS Key Type LV Size Device Type Elapsed Time Completion Time
------- ---- -- ---------- ----------- ------------ ---------------
3 Full 245.06G DISK 00:25:34 02-FEB-15
BP Key: 3 Status: AVAILABLE Compressed: NO Tag: TAG20150202T171725
Piece Name: /oradata/oradata/backup_rman/04pu9f96_1_1.bkp
List of Datafiles in backup set 3
File LV Type Ckp SCN Ckp Time Name
---- -- ---- ---------- --------- ----
1 Full 238879810 02-FEB-15 /flash_recovery_area/oradata/system01.dbf
2 Full 238879810 02-FEB-15 /flash_recovery_area/oradata/sysaux01.dbf
3 Full 238879810 02-FEB-15 /flash_recovery_area/oradata/undotbs01.dbf
4 Full 238879810 02-FEB-15 /flash_recovery_area/oradata/users01.dbf


BS Key Size Device Type Elapsed Time Completion Time
------- ---------- ----------- ------------ ---------------
4 1.56M DISK 00:00:00 02-FEB-15
BP Key: 4 Status: AVAILABLE Compressed: NO Tag: TAG20150202T174304
Piece Name: /oradata/oradata/backup_rman/05pu9gp8_1_1.bkp

List of Archived Logs in backup set 4
Thrd Seq Low SCN Low Time Next SCN Next Time
---- ------- ---------- --------- ---------- ---------
1 8 238879587 02-FEB-15 238882605 02-FEB-15

BS Key Type LV Size Device Type Elapsed Time Completion Time
------- ---- -- ---------- ----------- ------------ ---------------
5 Full 9.11M DISK 00:00:00 02-FEB-15
BP Key: 5 Status: AVAILABLE Compressed: NO Tag: TAG20150202T174305
Piece Name: /flash_recovery_area/oradata/autobackup/2015_02_02/o1_mf_n_870630185_bdz1hkgr_.bkp
Control File Included: Ckp SCN: 238882614 Ckp time: 02-FEB-15

BS Key Type LV Size Device Type Elapsed Time Completion Time
------- ---- -- ---------- ----------- ------------ ---------------
6 Full 9.11M DISK 00:00:00 04-FEB-15
BP Key: 6 Status: AVAILABLE Compressed: NO Tag: TAG20150204T152731
Piece Name: /flash_recovery_area/oradata/autobackup/2015_02_04/o1_mf_n_870794851_bf429cs9_.bkp
Control File Included: Ckp SCN: 238882801 Ckp time: 04-FEB-15

or you can summarize your backups by
  • RMAN> list backup summary;
which gives you a list similar like below :

List of Backups
===============
Key TY LV S Device Type Completion Time #Pieces #Copies Compressed Tag
------- -- -- - ----------- --------------- ------- ------- ---------- ---
2 B A A DISK 02-FEB-15 1 1 NO TAG20150202T171723
3 B F A DISK 02-FEB-15 1 1 NO TAG20150202T171725
4 B A A DISK 02-FEB-15 1 1 NO TAG20150202T174304
5 B F A DISK 02-FEB-15 1 1 NO TAG20150202T174305
6 B F A DISK 04-FEB-15 1 1 NO TAG20150204T152731

now that we can see our backups lets restore
1. Tag Name
  • RMAN> restore database from tag '${TAG_NAME}';
usually tag uses the time format : TAG2015-02-02-T17:17:23

2.Date
  • restore database until time "to_date('26-jun-2014 9:53:00', 'dd-mon-rrrr hh24:mi:ss')";
  • recover database until time "to_date('26-jun-2014 9:53:00', 'dd-mon-rrrr hh24:mi:ss')";
  • alter database open resetlogs;


PS: if you forgot to pick your date you can find it under the "Time" or "TAG" column on your backup list.

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