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.opt)';
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