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RMAN: RAC Backup, Restore and Recovery using RMAN (Doc ID 243760.1)

Last updated on JULY 25, 2023

Applies to:

Oracle Database - Standard Edition
Oracle Database - Personal Edition
Oracle Database - Enterprise Edition - Version 11.2.0.3 and later
Oracle Database Cloud Schema Service - Version N/A and later
Oracle Database Exadata Cloud Machine - Version N/A and later
Information in this document applies to any platform. *** ***
***Checked for relevance on 24-Jan-2018***

Purpose

The purpose of this document is to give a quick guide for using RMAN on RAC databases. We will follow this points:

1. Verify the database mode and archive destination.
2. Verify connectivity using sqlnet for target and catalog.
3. Determine the backup device.
4. Understand how to create an RMAN persistent configuration for a RAC env.
5. Create backups to disk using the new persistent configuration parameters.
6. Backupset maintenance using the configured retention policy.
7. Restore and Recover
    a. Complete
    b. Incomplete
8. Review and understand the impact of resetlogs on the catalog.
9. RMAN Sample Commands.

 

Scope

  • This discussion is for a 2-node Oracle RAC Cluster.
  • The logs are being archived to their respective node.
  • We are allocating channels to each node to enable the autolocate feature of RMAN in a RAC env.

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