RE: More Rman q's

2002-01-25 Thread Jay Hostetter
Jack, The auxiliary database is the clone of the target database (Oracle really should have called this parameter SOURCE instead of TARGET). It (the auxiliary) is the one you are creating. The auxiliary database should be started nomount. The only files needed for the auxiliary are the

RE: More Rman q's /SOLVED dunno how

2002-01-25 Thread nlzanen1
Hi , I must have made a really big mess of the catalog or something. I reinstalled the catalog, recreated TEST2 and ran the clone script again. Guess what.? Thx J&J Jack [EMAIL PROTECTED]@fatcity.com on 25-01-2002 11:10:19 Please respond to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: [EMAIL

RE: More Rman q's

2002-01-25 Thread Hallas John
Title: RE: More Rman q's Jack, TEST3 instance should be exactly as you stated, an Oracle instance with no datafiles as yet. What I think I was meaning regarding the names of the objects is that the format is Rman catalogue = catalogue Source database  = target new database   = auxil

RE: More Rman q's

2002-01-25 Thread nlzanen1
Hi, Am I misreading all this, but should the auxiliary database be in existence before I can Clone to it? I created the init.ora and all directories and started TEST3 in nomount. I created the password file and can connect to it with a connect string no problem. Another point is. Did you mean

Re: More Rman q's

2002-01-22 Thread Jay Hostetter
You need to have the auxiliary database started nomount. All you need is the init.ora to do this. The duplicate will create the control, data, and redo log files. Jay Hostetter Oracle DBA D. & E. Communications Ephrata, PA USA >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 01/22/02 09:20AM >>> Hi All, Trying my

More Rman q's

2002-01-22 Thread nlzanen1
Hi All, Trying my first attempt to clone a database using rman and ending up with errors. Situation: TEST1 database = catalog Status=OPEN TEST2 database= target database and to be cloned status= OPEN TEST3 database= future clone of TEST2 status = NOMOUNT (as per docs) I have all sorts of back