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RMAN Restore: What is DBID?

Christy H.Oct 9 2015 — edited Oct 23 2015

Hello,

There was some problems with plesk on our server and there was no way except OS reload. Here is log of every day auto backup:

XE Backup Log

Recovery Manager: Release 11.2.0.2.0 - Production on Mon Oct 5 02:30:02 2015

Copyright (c) 1982, 2009, Oracle and/or its affiliates.  All rights reserved.

connected to target database: XE (DBID=2713545907)

RMAN>

echo set on

RMAN>          configure retention policy to redundancy 2;

using target database control file instead of recovery catalog

old RMAN configuration parameters:

CONFIGURE RETENTION POLICY TO REDUNDANCY 2;

new RMAN configuration parameters:

CONFIGURE RETENTION POLICY TO REDUNDANCY 2;

new RMAN configuration parameters are successfully stored

RMAN>          configure controlfile autobackup format for device type disk clear;

RMAN configuration parameters are successfully reset to default value

RMAN>          configure controlfile autobackup on;

old RMAN configuration parameters:

CONFIGURE CONTROLFILE AUTOBACKUP OFF;

new RMAN configuration parameters:

CONFIGURE CONTROLFILE AUTOBACKUP ON;

new RMAN configuration parameters are successfully stored

RMAN>          sql "create pfile=''/u01/app/oracle/product/11.2.0/xe/dbs/spfile2init.ora'' from spfile";

sql statement: create pfile=''/u01/app/oracle/product/11.2.0/xe/dbs/spfile2init.ora'' from spfile

RMAN>          backup as backupset device type disk database;

Starting backup at 05-OCT-15

allocated channel: ORA_DISK_1

channel ORA_DISK_1: SID=114 device type=DISK

channel ORA_DISK_1: starting full datafile backup set

channel ORA_DISK_1: specifying datafile(s) in backup set

input datafile file number=00001 name=/var/oradata/XE/system.dbf

input datafile file number=00002 name=/var/oradata/XE/sysaux.dbf

input datafile file number=00003 name=/var/oradata/XE/undotbs1.dbf

input datafile file number=00004 name=/var/oradata/XE/users.dbf

channel ORA_DISK_1: starting piece 1 at 05-OCT-15

channel ORA_DISK_1: finished piece 1 at 05-OCT-15

piece handle=/var/oracle_fra/XE/backupset/2015_10_05/o1_mf_nnndf_TAG20151005T023003_c149qwxk_.bkp tag=TAG20151005T023003 comment=NONE

channel ORA_DISK_1: backup set complete, elapsed time: 00:01:56

Finished backup at 05-OCT-15

Starting Control File and SPFILE Autobackup at 05-OCT-15

piece handle=/var/oracle_fra/XE/autobackup/2015_10_05/o1_mf_s_892261919_c149vhn0_.bkp comment=NONE

Finished Control File and SPFILE Autobackup at 05-OCT-15

RMAN>          configure controlfile autobackup off;

old RMAN configuration parameters:

CONFIGURE CONTROLFILE AUTOBACKUP ON;

new RMAN configuration parameters:

CONFIGURE CONTROLFILE AUTOBACKUP OFF;

new RMAN configuration parameters are successfully stored

RMAN>          delete noprompt obsolete;

RMAN retention policy will be applied to the command

RMAN retention policy is set to redundancy 2

using channel ORA_DISK_1

Deleting the following obsolete backups and copies:

Type                 Key    Completion Time    Filename/Handle

-------------------- ------ ------------------ --------------------

Backup Set           1265   03-OCT-15

  Backup Piece       1265   03-OCT-15          /var/oracle_fra/XE/backupset/2015_10_03/o1_mf_nnndf_TAG20151003T023003_c0z0zwm9_.bkp

Archive Log          669    03-OCT-15          /var/oracle_fra/XE/archivelog/2015_10_03/o1_mf_1_730_c0z13f0x_.arc

Backup Set           1266   03-OCT-15

  Backup Piece       1266   03-OCT-15          /var/oracle_fra/XE/autobackup/2015_10_03/o1_mf_s_892089109_c0z1364t_.bkp

deleted backup piece

backup piece handle=/var/oracle_fra/XE/backupset/2015_10_03/o1_mf_nnndf_TAG20151003T023003_c0z0zwm9_.bkp RECID=1265 STAMP=892089004

deleted archived log

archived log file name=/var/oracle_fra/XE/archivelog/2015_10_03/o1_mf_1_730_c0z13f0x_.arc RECID=669 STAMP=892089118

deleted backup piece

backup piece handle=/var/oracle_fra/XE/autobackup/2015_10_03/o1_mf_s_892089109_c0z1364t_.bkp RECID=1266 STAMP=892089110

Deleted 3 objects

RMAN>

Recovery Manager complete.

Recovery Manager: Release 11.2.0.2.0 - Production on Mon Oct 5 02:32:04 2015

Copyright (c) 1982, 2009, Oracle and/or its affiliates.  All rights reserved.

connected to target database: XE (DBID=2713545907)

RMAN>

using target database control file instead of recovery catalog

sql statement: alter system archive log current

RMAN>

Recovery Manager complete.

The data files and RMAN backup files resides on other hard drive that are:

/var/oradata/XE

/var/oracle_fra

I also copied the following files:

init.ora

spfile2init.ora

spfileXE.ora

Now the operating system is reloaded and I installed oracle from the scratch:

SQL> SELECT * FROM v$version;

BANNER

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Oracle Database 11g Express Edition Release 11.2.0.2.0 - 64bit Production

PL/SQL Release 11.2.0.2.0 - Production

CORE    11.2.0.2.0      Production

TNS for Linux: Version 11.2.0.2.0 - Produc

===================================

]# cat /etc/centos-release

CentOS release 6.7 (Final)

The following folders/files are on my slave drive:

/disk1/oradata

/disk1/oradata/XE

/disk1/oradata/XE/control.dbf

/disk1/oradata/XE/redo10_01.dbf

/disk1/oradata/XE/redo11.dbf

/disk1/oradata/XE/redo12.dbf

/disk1/oradata/XE/redo13.dbf

/disk1/oradata/XE/redo14.dbf

/disk1/oradata/XE/redo15.dbf

/disk1/oradata/XE/sysaux.dbf

/disk1/oradata/XE/system.dbf

/disk1/oradata/XE/temp.dbf

/disk1/oradata/XE/undotbs1.dbf

/disk1/oradata/XE/users.dbf

/disk1/oracle_fra

/disk1/oracle_fra/XE

/disk1/oracle_fra/XE/archivelog

/disk1/oracle_fra/XE/autobackup

/disk1/oracle_fra/XE/backupset

/disk1/oracle_fra/XE/onlinelog

/disk1/oracle_fra/XE/archivelog/2015_09_29

/disk1/oracle_fra/XE/archivelog/2015_09_30

/disk1/oracle_fra/XE/archivelog/2015_10_01

/disk1/oracle_fra/XE/archivelog/2015_10_02

/disk1/oracle_fra/XE/archivelog/2015_10_03

/disk1/oracle_fra/XE/archivelog/2015_10_04

/disk1/oracle_fra/XE/archivelog/2015_10_05

/disk1/oracle_fra/XE/archivelog/2015_10_06

/disk1/oracle_fra/XE/archivelog/2015_10_04/o1_mf_1_731_c11ognk8_.arc

/disk1/oracle_fra/XE/archivelog/2015_10_05/o1_mf_1_732_c149vo3c_.arc

/disk1/oracle_fra/XE/archivelog/2015_10_05/o1_mf_1_733_c15dshcn_.arc

/disk1/oracle_fra/XE/archivelog/2015_10_06/o1_mf_1_734_c18sw1q9_.arc

/disk1/oracle_fra/XE/autobackup/2015_09_29

/disk1/oracle_fra/XE/autobackup/2015_09_30

/disk1/oracle_fra/XE/autobackup/2015_10_01

/disk1/oracle_fra/XE/autobackup/2015_10_02

/disk1/oracle_fra/XE/autobackup/2015_10_03

/disk1/oracle_fra/XE/autobackup/2015_10_04

/disk1/oracle_fra/XE/autobackup/2015_10_05

/disk1/oracle_fra/XE/autobackup/2015_10_04/o1_mf_s_892175488_c11ogk7m_.bkp

/disk1/oracle_fra/XE/autobackup/2015_10_05/o1_mf_s_892261919_c149vhn0_.bkp

/disk1/oracle_fra/XE/backupset/2015_09_29

/disk1/oracle_fra/XE/backupset/2015_09_30

/disk1/oracle_fra/XE/backupset/2015_10_01

/disk1/oracle_fra/XE/backupset/2015_10_02

/disk1/oracle_fra/XE/backupset/2015_10_03

/disk1/oracle_fra/XE/backupset/2015_10_04

/disk1/oracle_fra/XE/backupset/2015_10_05

/disk1/oracle_fra/XE/backupset/2015_10_04/o1_mf_nnndf_TAG20151004T023003_c11ocwg1_.bkp

/disk1/oracle_fra/XE/backupset/2015_10_05/o1_mf_nnndf_TAG20151005T023003_c149qwxk_.bkp

/disk1/oracle_fra/XE/onlinelog/o1_mf_1_9d4vrb2o_.log

/disk1/oracle_fra/XE/onlinelog/o1_mf_2_9d4vrcn4_.log

/disk1/oracle_fra/XE/onlinelog/o1_mf_3_9d4vrfbh_.log

/disk1/oracle_fra/XE/onlinelog/o1_mf_4_9d4vrgt3_.log

/disk1/oracle_fra/XE/onlinelog/o1_mf_6_9d4vr88o_.log

Now I want to restore latest database backup:

I googled and found this article: How to Restore Oracle Database using RMAN (with Examples) but don't know what is:

RMAN> SET DBID 12345;

Question-1: Is that mean SET XE 1521 in my case?

Question-2: Looking for a restore script


This will be first time in my career to restore database

Thanks in anticipation

This post has been answered by Dude! on Oct 23 2015
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