RMAN

RMAN
1. Which role you grant to rman user while configuring rman user
Recovery_catalog_owner role.
2. Temporarily recovery catalog database (for RMAN) is down. Can you still run a backup? How?
Yes, using no catalog mode

3. You have run a backup of database using RMAN nocatalog. How do you sync the recovery catalog
with the metadata about the backup that was taken?
Resync catalog

4. What is compress parameter?

It reduces the size of backup
5. With our catalog can we connect 2 target databases at a time?
Yes we can

6. We have rman backup. can we restore it without using rman and run the Db?
No

7. Is it needs to take bkp of catalog db?

Not mandatory...

8. Why RMAN scripts not work in no catalog mode?

Rman scripts stored in a catalog. but in no catalog mode we not creating catalog. So no scripts.
9. What use of command line parameter cmd file?
It is a command line argument that allows you to specify a file that contains a set of arguments for run.
10. What is the use of nohup?
The execution of a specific task is performed in the server side with out any interrupting Usage : nohup cp -r
* /tmp/. &

11. How do u set crontab to delete 5 days old trace files at daily 10'0 clock?
crontab e 0 10 * * * /usr/bin/find /disk2/oradata/prod/diag/rdbms/prod/prod/trace -name "*.trc" -mtime +5
-exec rm -rf {} \; save and exit (wq!)

12. From RMAN, how do you check if an archive log file is backedup to tape or not?
Report need backup;
13. How do you send the data to tape?
Using 1. tar -cvf or 2. cpio
14. How do you enable/disable debugging mode in unix?
Set -x and set +x

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15. How to configure RMAN?

Configuring RMAN can be done two types. Using catalog and with out using catalog. If you are using catalog
it you will have to specify a separate tablespace for the catalog. This will remove the overhead on control file
maintaining all the info in it.

16. How to configure RMAN on tape drives (VTL)?

There is a parameter called device_type just give it as sbt and specify the tape location.
17. RMAN improvements
Oracle10g comes with a just a ton of improvements (I like that word, plethora!) for RMAN. These include the
following:
1. The Flash Recovery Area
2. Fast Recovery
3. Using the catalog and uncatalog commands
4. Dropping a database in RMAN
5. Unregistering a database in RMAN
6. Making and Using RMAN backup copies
7. Configuring default disk backup types.
8. Changes to incremental backups.
9. Recovering datafiles not backed up.
10. Changes in error reporting.
11. Compressing RMAN Backups
12. RMAN Related TSPITR changes.

18. What is difference between OBSOLETE and EXPIRED?

Obsolete backups mean inconsistency backups for recovery purpose. Expired backups means those
backups physical files are not available on disk.

19. How speed up backup jobs in Rman?

By increase number of channels.

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