rman command reference

rman command reference

##Connecting RMAN##############

rman TARGET SYS/target_pwd@target_str # connects in NOCATALOG mode
rman TARGET / CATALOG rman/rman@rcat
rman TARGET / CATALOG rman/rman@rcat AUXILIARY sys/aux_pwd@aux_str

##Create user and catalog in RMAN database ########

CREATE USER rman_dba IDENTIFIED BY rman_dba TEMPORARY TABLESPACE temp DEFAULT TABLESPACE rman_dba QUOTA UNLIMITED ON rman_dba;
GRANT RECOVERY_CATALOG_OWNER TO rman_dba;
CREATE CATALOG;

## Register Database######

Rman target / catalog rman_dba/rman_dba@<catalog>

register database;
select * from rc_database;

### Catalog copy in RMAN Catalog###

CATALOG BACKUPPIECE ‘/disk2/09dtq55d_1_2’, ‘/disk2/0bdtqdou_1_1’;
CATALOG DATAFILECOPY ‘/tmp/users01.dbf’;
CATALOG RECOVERY AREA;
CHANGE CONTROLFILECOPY ‘/tmp/control01.ctl’ UNCATALOG;
CHANGE DATAFILECOPY ‘/tmp/system01.dbf’ UNCATALOG;
CHANGE DATAFILECOPY ‘/tmp/control01.ctl’ UNAVAILABLE;
CHANGE COPY OF ARCHIVELOG SEQUENCE BETWEEN 1000 AND 1012 UNAVAILABLE;
CHANGE BACKUPSET 12 UNAVAILABLE;
CHANGE BACKUP OF SPFILE TAG “TAG20020208T154556” UNAVAILABLE;
CHANGE DATAFILECOPY ‘/tmp/system01.dbf’ AVAILABLE;
CHANGE BACKUPSET 12 AVAILABLE;
CHANGE BACKUP OF SPFILE TAG “TAG20020208T154556” AVAILABLE;
CATALOG START WITH ‘/backup/MYSID/arch’;

### Configure RMAN ######

CONFIGURE CHANNEL DEVICE TYPE sbt CLEAR;
CONFIGURE RETENTION POLICY CLEAR;
CONFIGURE CONTROLFILE AUTOBACKUP FORMAT FOR DEVICE TYPE DISK CLEAR;

CONFIGURE DEFAULT DEVICE TYPE TO DISK/SBT;
CONFIGURE RETENTION POLICY TO REDUNDANCY 3;
CONFIGURE DEVICE TYPE DISK PARALLELISM 2;
CONFIGURE DEVICE TYPE sbt PARALLELISM 2;
CONFIGURE CHANNEL DEVICE TYPE DISK FORMAT ‘d:\oracle\orclbackup\ora_df%t_s%s_s%p’;
CONFIGURE CONTROLFILE AUTOBACKUP ON;
CONFIGURE CONTROLFILE AUTOBACKUP FORMAT FOR DEVICE TYPE DISK TO ‘d:\oracle\orclbackup\ora_cf%F’;
CONFIGURE BACKUP OPTIMIZATION ON;
CONFIGURE CHANNEL DEVICE TYPE DISK MAXPIECESIZE 2G;
CONFIGURE CHANNEL DEVICE TYPE DISK FORMAT /tmp/%U;
CONFIGURE CONTROLFILE AUTOBACKUP FORMAT FOR DEVICE TYPE DISK TO ‘+dgroup1/%F’;
CONFIGURE DEVICE TYPE <DISK | SBT> BACKUP TYPE TO COMPRESSED BACKUPSET;
CONFIGURE CHANNEL DEVICE TYPE DISK FORMAT ‘/disk1/%U’, ‘/disk2/%U’;
CONFIGURE DATAFILE BACKUP COPIES FOR DEVICE TYPE sbt TO 2;
CONFIGURE ARCHIVELOG BACKUP COPIES FOR DEVICE TYPE sbt TO 2;
CONFIGURE DATAFILE BACKUP COPIES FOR DEVICE TYPE DISK TO 2;
CONFIGURE RETENTION POLICY TO RECOVERY WINDOW OF 4 DAYS;

###RMAN backup check view######

SELECT SID,
SERIAL#,
CONTEXT,
SOFAR,
TOTALWORK,
ROUND(SOFAR / TOTALWORK * 100, 2) “% COMPLETE”
FROM V$SESSION_LONGOPS
WHERE OPNAME LIKE ‘RMAN%’ AND OPNAME NOT LIKE ‘%aggregate%’ AND
TOTALWORK != 0 AND SOFAR <> TOTALWORK ;

COL in_sec FORMAT a10
COL out_sec FORMAT a10
COL TIME_TAKEN_DISPLAY FORMAT a10
SELECT SESSION_KEY,
OPTIMIZED,
COMPRESSION_RATIO,
INPUT_BYTES_PER_SEC_DISPLAY in_sec,
OUTPUT_BYTES_PER_SEC_DISPLAY out_sec,
TIME_TAKEN_DISPLAY
FROM V$RMAN_BACKUP_JOB_DETAILS
ORDER BY SESSION_KEY;

SELECT FILE#, STATUS, ERROR, RECOVER, TABLESPACE_NAME, NAME
FROM V$DATAFILE_HEADER
WHERE RECOVER = ‘YES’
OR (RECOVER IS NULL AND ERROR IS NOT NULL);

SELECT FILE#, INCREMENTAL_LEVEL, COMPLETION_TIME,
BLOCKS, DATAFILE_BLOCKS
FROM V$BACKUP_DATAFILE
WHERE INCREMENTAL_LEVEL > 0
AND BLOCKS / DATAFILE_BLOCKS > .2
ORDER BY COMPLETION_TIME;

SELECT * FROM V$RECOVERY_FILE_DEST;
SELECT * FROM V$RECOVERY_AREA_USAGE;
SELECT * FROM V$DATABASE_BLOCK_CORRUPTION;

### List and Report of backup ####

LIST BACKUP OF DATABASE;
LIST COPY OF DATAFILE 1, 2;
LIST BACKUP OF ARCHIVELOG FROM SEQUENCE 10;
LIST BACKUPSET OF DATAFILE 1;
LIST BACKUP;
LIST cOPY;
LIST ARCHIVELOG;
LIST RESTORE POINT;
LIST EXPIRED;
LIST BACKUP SUMMARY;
LIST FAILURE;
LIST BACKUPSET TAG ‘weekly_full_db_backup’;
LIST BACKUPSET 213;
LIST COPY OF DATAFILE 2 COMPLETED BETWEEN ’10-DEC-2002′ AND ’17-DEC-2002′
LIST BACKUP OF DATAFILE 1;

REPORT OBSOLETE;
REPORT SCHEMA;
REPORT NEED BACKUP
REPORT NEED BACKUP RECOVERY WINDOW OF 2 DAYS DATABASE DEVICE TYPE sbt;
REPORT NEED BACKUP DEVICE TYPE DISK;
REPORT NEED BACKUP TABLESPACE TBS_3 DEVICE TYPE sbt;
REPORT OBSOLETE RECOVERY WINDOW OF 3 DAYS;
REPORT OBSOLETE REDUNDANCY 1;

## Crosscheck backup #####

CROSSCHECK BACKUP DEVICE TYPE DISK;
CROSSCHECK BACKUP DEVICE TYPE sbt;
CROSSCHECK BACKUP; # checks backup sets, proxy copies, and image copies
CROSSCHECK COPY OF DATABASE;
CROSSCHECK BACKUPSET 1338, 1339, 1340;
CROSSCHECK BACKUPPIECE TAG ‘nightly_backup’;
CROSSCHECK BACKUP OF ARCHIVELOG ALL SPFILE;
CROSSCHECK BACKUP OF DATAFILE “?/oradata/trgt/system01.dbf” COMPLETED AFTER ‘SYSDATE-14’;
CROSSCHECK CONTROLFILECOPY ‘/tmp/control01.ctl’;
CROSSCHECK DATAFILECOPY 113, 114, 115;
CROSSCHECK PROXY 789;

### Delete backup ########

DELETE BACKUPPIECE 101;
DELETE CONTROLFILECOPY ‘/tmp/control01.ctl’;
DELETE NOPROMPT ARCHIVELOG UNTIL SEQUENCE 300;
DELETE BACKUP TAG ‘before_upgrade’;
DELETE ARCHIVELOG ALL BACKED UP 3 TIMES TO sbt;
DELETE EXPIRED BACKUP;
DELETE OBSOLETE;

###Simple unix script #############

#!/bin/tcsh
# name: runbackup.sh
# usage: use the tag name and number of copies as arguments
set media_family = $argv[1]
set format = $argv[2]
set restore_point = $argv[3]
rman @’/disk1/scripts/whole_db.cmd’ USING $media_family $format $restore_point

% runbackup.sh archival_backup bck0906 FY06Q3

##Backup Database command #####

BACKUP DEVICE TYPE sbt BACKUPSET COMPLETED BEFORE ‘SYSDATE-7’ DELETE INPUT;
BACKUP DEVICE TYPE DISK COPIES 3 DATAFILE 7 FORMAT ‘/disk1/%U’,’?/oradata/%U’,’?/%U’;
BACKUP DEVICE TYPE sbt BACKUPSET COMPLETED BEFORE ‘SYSDATE-7’ DELETE INPUT;
BACKUP AS BACKUPSET DATABASE;
BACKUP AS BACKUPSET DEVICE TYPE DISK DATABASE;
BACKUP AS BACKUPSET DEVICE TYPE SBT DATABASE;
BACKUP AS COPY DEVICE TYPE DISK DATABASE;
BACKUP AS BACKUPSET COPIES 1 DATAFILE 7 TAG mondaybkp;
BACKUP AS COMPRESSED BACKUPSET DATABASE PLUS ARCHIVELOG;
BACKUP DEVICE TYPE sbt DATAFILE 1,2,3,4 DATAFILECOPY ‘/tmp/system01.dbf’;
BACKUP AS COPY DB_FILE_NAME_CONVERT (‘/maindisk/oradata/users’,’/backups/users_ts’) TABLESPACE users;
BACKUP INCREMENTAL LEVEL 0 DATABASE;
BACKUP AS BACKUPSET DATABASE FORMAT ‘/disk1/%U’,’/disk2/%U’;
BACKUP AS BACKUPSET DEVICE TYPE DISK COPIES 3 INCREMENTAL LEVEL 0 DATABASE;
BACKUP DURATION 4:00 TABLESPACE users;
BACKUP DURATION 4:00 PARTIAL TABLESPACE users FILESPERSET 1;
BACKUP DURATION 4:00 PARTIAL MINIMIZE TIME DATABASE FILESPERSET 1;
BACKUP DURATION 4:00 PARTIAL MINIMIZE LOAD DATABASE FILESPERSET 1;
BACKUP VALIDATE DATABASE ARCHIVELOG ALL;
BACKUP VALIDATE CHECK LOGICAL DATABASE ARCHIVELOG ALL;
backup as compressed backupset incremental level 0 database plus archivelog;
BACKUP DEVICE TYPE sbt ARCHIVELOG ALL DELETE ALL INPUT;
BACKUP INCREMENTAL LEVEL 1 TABLESPACE SYSTEM, tools;
BACKUP INCREMENTAL LEVEL 1 CUMULATIVE TABLESPACE users;
BACKUP VALIDATE CHECK LOGICAL DATABASE ARCHIVELOG ALL;
BACKUP ARCHIVELOG FROM TIME ‘SYSDATE-1’;
BACKUP ARCHIVELOG FROM TIME ‘SYSDATE-5’ UNTIL TIME ‘SYSDATE-1’

RUN
{
ALLOCATE CHANNEL disk1 DEVICE TYPE DISK FORMAT ‘/disk1/%d_backups/%U’;
ALLOCATE CHANNEL disk2 DEVICE TYPE DISK FORMAT ‘/disk2/%d_backups/%U’;
ALLOCATE CHANNEL disk3 DEVICE TYPE DISK FORMAT ‘/disk3/%d_backups/%U’;
BACKUP AS COPY DATABASE;
}

RUN
{
CONFIGURE DEVICE TYPE DISK PARALLELISM 3;
CONFIGURE DEFAULT DEVICE TYPE TO DISK;
CONFIGURE CHANNEL 1 DEVICE TYPE DISK FORMAT ‘/disk1/%d_backups/%U’;
CONFIGURE CHANNEL 2 DEVICE TYPE DISK FORMAT ‘/disk2/%d_backups/%U’;
CONFIGURE CHANNEL 3 DEVICE TYPE DISK FORMAT ‘/disk3/%d_backups/%U’;
BACKUP AS COPY DATABASE;
}

## Incremental updated backup #######

recover copy of database with tag ‘tcstest3’;
backup incremental level 1 tag ‘tcstest3’ for recover of copy with tag ‘tcstest3’ database ;

## Block change tracking ########

ALTER SYSTEM SET
DB_CREATE_FILE_DEST = ‘/disk1/bct/’
SCOPE=BOTH SID=’*’;

ALTER DATABASE ENABLE BLOCK CHANGE TRACKING;

ALTER DATABASE ENABLE BLOCK CHANGE TRACKING
USING FILE ‘/mydir/rman_change_track.f’ REUSE;

COL STATUS FORMAT A8
COL FILENAME FORMAT A60
SELECT STATUS, FILENAME
FROM V$BLOCK_CHANGE_TRACKING;

SQL> ALTER DATABASE DISABLE BLOCK CHANGE TRACKING;
SQL> ALTER DATABASE ENABLE BLOCK CHANGE TRACKING USING FILE ‘new_location’;

### Restore Preview #########

RESTORE DATABASE VALIDATE;
RESTORE ARCHIVELOG ALL VALIDATE;
RESTORE DATABASE PREVIEW;
RESTORE ARCHIVELOG FROM TIME ‘SYSDATE-7’ PREVIEW;
RESTORE DATABASE PREVIEW SUMMARY;
RESTORE ARCHIVELOG ALL PREVIEW RECALL;
REPAIR FAILURE PREVIEW;
VALIDATE DATABASE;
RUN{
ALLOCATE CHANNEL c1 DEVICE TYPE DISK;
ALLOCATE CHANNEL c2 DEVICE TYPE DISK;
VALIDATE DATAFILE 1 SECTION SIZE 1200M;
}
VALIDATE DATAFILE 4 BLOCK 10 TO 13;
VALIDATE BACKUPSET 3;
RECOVER CORRUPTION LIST;

### Recover database flashback technology ####

SELECT OLDEST_FLASHBACK_SCN, OLDEST_FLASHBACK_TIME FROM V$FLASHBACK_DATABASE_LOG;

SELECT CURRENT_SCN FROM V$DATABASE;
SELECT NAME, SCN, TIME, DATABASE_INCARNATION#,GUARANTEE_FLASHBACK_DATABASE FROM V$RESTORE_POINT WHERE GUARANTEE_FLASHBACK_DATABASE=’YES’;
SHUTDOWN IMMEDIATE;
STARTUP MOUNT;

FLASHBACK DATABASE TO SCN 46963;
FLASHBACK DATABASE TO RESTORE POINT BEFORE_CHANGES;
FLASHBACK DATABASE TO TIME “TO_DATE(’09/20/05′,’MM/DD/YY’)”;
ALTER DATABASE OPEN READ ONLY;

SHUTDOWN IMMEDIATE
STARTUP MOUNT
ALTER DATABASE OPEN RESETLOGS;

SET UNTIL TIME ‘Nov 15 2004 09:00:00’;
SET UNTIL SEQUENCE 9923;
SET UNTIL RESTORE POINT before_update;
RESTORE DATABASE;
RECOVER DATABASE;
ALTER DATABASE OPEN RESETLOGS;

### Recover database to copy location and again recover back to original location #######

RUN{
SWITCH DATABASE TO COPY;
RECOVER DATABASE;
ALTER DATABASE OPEN;
}

run{
SET NEWNAME FOR DATAFILE 1 TO ‘/oracle/oradata/tcstest/system01.dbf’;
SET NEWNAME FOR DATAFILE 2 TO ‘/oracle/oradata/tcstest/undotbs01.dbf’;
SET NEWNAME FOR DATAFILE 3 TO ‘/oracle/oradata/tcstest/sysaux01.dbf’;
SET NEWNAME FOR DATAFILE 4 TO ‘/oracle/oradata/tcstest/users01.dbf’;
SET NEWNAME FOR DATAFILE 5 TO ‘/oracle/oradata/tcstest/example01.dbf’;
RESTORE DATABASE;
SWITCH DATAFILE ALL;
RECOVER DATABASE;
}

## Recover individual tablespace and datafile###

sql “alter tablespace working_data offline”;
sql “alter database datafile 13 offline”;
restore tablespace working_data;
restore datafile 13;
recover tablespace working_data;
recover datafile 13;
sql “alter tablespace working_data online”;
sql “alter database datafile 13 online”;

SWITCH DATAFILE 4 TO COPY;
RECOVER DATAFILE 4;

backup as copy datafile 4;

run{
SET NEWNAME FOR DATAFILE 4 TO ‘/oracle/oradata/tcstest/users01.dbf’;
restore datafile 4;
switch datafile 4;
recover datafile 4;
}

SET NEWNAME FOR DATAFILE ‘/disk1/oradata/prod/users01.dbf’
TO ‘/disk2/users01.dbf’;
RESTORE TABLESPACE users;
SWITCH DATAFILE ALL; # update control file with new filenames
RECOVER TABLESPACE users;

## Recover individual block #######

RECOVER DATAFILE 8 BLOCK 13 DATAFILE 2 BLOCK 199 FROM TAG mondayam;
RECOVER CORRUPTION LIST;

## Recover No-archivelog mode with catalog########

rman target sys/password catalog rcat_user/rcat_password@catalogdb
startup force nomount;
restore spfile from autobackup;
shutdown immediate;
startup nomount;
restore controlfile from autobackup;
alter database mount;
configure default device type to sbt;
configure channel 1 device type sbt parms = “env=(nb_ora_serv=mgtserv, nb_ora_client=cervantes)”;
restore database;
recover database noredo;
alter database open resetlogs;

## Recover No-archivelog mode with no catalog####

rman target sys/password
startup nomount
set dbid=2540040039;
restore controlfile from autobackup;
sql ‘alter database mount’;
restore database;
recover database noredo;
sql “alter database open resetlogs”;

### Recover complete database loss–No catalog ###

rman target /
set dbid=204062491;
startup force nomount;
run {
allocate channel tape_1 type sbt
parms=’env=(nb_ora_serv=rmsrv, nb_ora_client=cervantes)’;
restore spfile from autobackup;

}

shutdown immediate;

startup nomount;

alter system set control_files= ‘/u02/oradata/prod/control01.dbf’,
‘/u03/oradata/prod/control02.dbf’ scope=spfile;

alter system set db_file_name_convert= (‘/u04’ , ‘/u02’ ,
‘/u05’ , ‘/u02’ ,
‘u06’ , ‘ u03’ ,
‘u07’ , ‘u03’) scope=spfile;

alter system set log_file_name_convert= (‘/u04’ , ‘/u02’ ,
‘/u05’ , ‘/u02’ ,
‘u06’ , ‘ u03’ ,
‘u07’ , ‘u03’) scope=spfile;

alter system set log_archive_dest_1=
‘location=/u02/oradata/prod/arch’ scope=spfile;

alter system set db_cache_size=300m scope=spfile;

alter system set shared_pool_size=200m scope=spfile;

shutdown immediate;

startup nomount;

run {
allocate channel tape_1 type sbt
parms=’env=(nb_ora_serv=rmsrv, nb_ora_client=Cervantes)’;
restore controlfile from autobackup;

}

alter database mount;

configure default device type to sbt;

configure device type sbt parallelism 2;

configure auxiliary channel 1 device type sbt parms
= “env=(nb_ora_serv=mgtserv, nb_ora_client=cervantes)”;

configure auxiliary channel 2 device type sbt parms
= “env=(nb_ora_serv=mgtserv, nb_ora_cient=cervantes)”;

list backup of archivelog from time = ‘sysdate-7’;

restore database;

recover database until sequence=<number>;

alter database open resetlogs;

## Recovery of database if inactive redo log is deleted####

sql>startup mount;
sql>alter database clear logfile group 2;
sql>alter database open;

##Recovery after loss of controlfile #######

rman target /
startup nomount;
restore controlfile from autobackup;
alter database mount;
recover database;
alter database open (resetlogs);

## Tablespace point in time recovery ########

Database should be in opened state

recover tablespace “APP_DATA” until time
“to_date(‘2009-08-04 12:15:00’,’YYYY-MM-DD HH24:MI:SS’)”
auxiliary destination ’/opt/oracle/temp’;

### Recovery after loss of current redolog file ###

RUN
{
# SET UNTIL TIME ‘Nov 15 2002 09:00:00’;
# SET UNTIL SCN 1000; # alternatively, specify SCN
SET UNTIL SEQUENCE 1; # alternatively, specify log sequence number
RESTORE DATABASE;
RECOVER DATABASE;
}

###Backup of CDB and PDB in 12c#####

—CDB backup–

export ORACLE_SID=ORCL1

[oracle@rac1 ~]$ rman target /

RMAN> backup database plus archivelog;

—CDB root backup—

RMAN> backup pluggable database “CDB$ROOT”;

–Backup pluggable database—

backup pluggable database oem;

backup pluggable database oem plus archivelog;