Backup and restore VM Manager in Oracle VM 3.2.3

Dear All,
I try to install a new Manager machine with existing uuid till the last step and I saw it keep Trying none stop (Trying ....., trying....Trying ....., trying.... )
Please kindly give advice for this.
Thanks and regards,
Vandy

Hi,
Could this post be helpful?
Re: Oracle VM Manager 3.2.2 not complete the installation
Cheers.

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When I go to my backup and Restore and check the job status it tells me there is a backup in progress:
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Hi,
According to your post, my understanding is that the job status still shown “A
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Did you delete a old search application and recreate a new one before?
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RMAN backup and restore for Disaster Recovery

Hi Guys,
I am very new to Oracle and have a question about RMAN backup and restore feature. I am simulating a disaster recovery scenario by having two VMs running oracle 11g, say hosta and hostb, hosta is sort of production db and the other a disaster recovery db (one that will be made primary when disaster occurs). My goal is to backup production db using RMAN and restore it on the other machine. For some reason when I restore the db on hostb, the command restores the previous backup but not the most recent one e.g. I took a backup yesterday (09/20) and applied it to the hostb that worked fine, but when I try to apply a fresh backup from today (09/21) it always picks up the old backup. Here's a dump of the screen:
Starting restore at 21-SEP-11
using channel ORA_DISK_1
channel ORA_DISK_1: starting datafile backup set restore
channel ORA_DISK_1: specifying datafile(s) to restore from backup set
channel ORA_DISK_1: restoring datafile 00001 to /oracle/app/dev/oradata/forums/s
ystem01.dbf
channel ORA_DISK_1: restoring datafile 00002 to /oracle/app/dev/oradata/forums/s
ysaux01.dbf
channel ORA_DISK_1: restoring datafile 00003 to /oracle/app/dev/oradata/forums/u
ndotbs01.dbf
channel ORA_DISK_1: restoring datafile 00004 to /oracle/app/dev/oradata/forums/u
sers01.dbf
channel ORA_DISK_1: reading from backup piece /oracle/app/dev/flash_recovery_are
a/FORUMS/backupset/o1_mf_nnnd0_TAG20110920T040950_77jx3zk7_.bkp
channel ORA_DISK_1: piece handle=/oracle/app/dev/flash_recovery_area/FORUMS/back
upset/o1_mf_nnnd0_TAG20110920T040950_77jx3zk7_.bkp tag=TAG20110920T040950
channel ORA_DISK_1: restored backup piece 1
channel ORA_DISK_1: restore complete, elapsed time: 00:01:05
Finished restore at 21-SEP-11
Notice that it reads the backup piece from this location /oracle/app/dev/flash_recovery_are
a/FORUMS/backupset/
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I am executing following steps at the RMAN prompt on hosta and hostb:
hosta (production site)
backup as compressed backupset database plus archivelog
backup current controlfile format'/oracle/oracle_bkup/ctl_%U'
backup spfile
hostb (Disaster site)
set dbid=13732232063
startup force nomount
restore spfile to '/oracle/app/dev/product/11.2.0/dbhome_1/dbs/spfileforums.ora' from '/export/home/dev/restore_db/backupset/2011_09_21/o1_mf_nnsnf_TAG20110921T114945_77ndg9ys_.bkp'
shutdown immediate
/* create a init<db_name>.ora file with SPFILE= /oracle/app/dev/product/11.2.0/dbhome_1/dbs/spfileforums.ora */
startup force pfile='/export/home/dev/restore_db/initforums.ora' nomount
restore controlfile from '/export/home/dev/restore_db/backupset/2011_09_21/ctl_1hmn3mic_1_1'
/* restart rman here */
quit
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catalog start with '/export/home/dev/restore_db/backupset/2011_09_21' noprompt;
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restore database;
recover database;
alter database open resetlogs
quit
Any help will be greatly appreciated.
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Thanks guys, I really appreciate all your help here. I redid everything all over again to get all the information you guys wanted. Since I noticed that more eyes are looking into this I am going to reiterate my steps one more time followed by specific answers to questions. My first backup on Host B is located under ..../restore_db/backupset whereas the subsequent one is under .../restore_db/backupset/backupset2.
I take backup on Host A using:
rman target /
backup as compressed backupset database plus archivelog;
backup spfile;
quit;
I restore the backup on Host B using:
set dbid=13732232063;
startup force nomount;
restore spfile to '/oracle/app/dev/product/11.2.0/dbhome_1/dbs/spfileforums.ora' from '/export/home/dev/restore_db/backupset/o1_mf_nnsnf_TAG20110928T171830_787gbpxh_.bkp'
shutdown immediate;
startup force nomount;
restore controlfile from '/export/home/dev/restore_db/backupset/o1_mf_ncsnf_TAG20110928T171638_787gbkxn_.bkp'
quit;
/* restart rman here */
alter database mount;
catalog start with '/export/home/dev/restore_db/backupset' noprompt;
restore database;
recover database;
alter database open resetlogs;
quit;
I take another backup on Host A using (notice no spfile backup this time):
backup as compressed backupset database plus archivelog;
quit;
I restore the database on Host B using:
alter database mount;
catalog start with '/export/home/dev/restore_db/backupset/backupset2' noprompt;
recover database;
alter database open;
quit;
Output of List Backup of database (I have done this after I recovered the second time, also note that it is referring to backupset2 which is were my second backup is stored)
RMAN> list backup of database;
using target database control file instead of recovery catalog
List of Backup Sets
===================
BS Key Type LV Size Device Type Elapsed Time Completion Time
89 Full 261.87M DISK 00:01:37 28-SEP-11
BP Key: 91 Status: AVAILABLE Compressed: YES Tag: TAG20110928T171638
Piece Name: /export/home/dev/restore_db/backupset/o1_mf_nnndf_TAG2011092
8T171638_787g77rx_.bkp
List of Datafiles in backup set 89
File LV Type Ckp SCN Ckp Time Name
1 Full 1813849 28-SEP-11 /oracle/app/dev/oradata/forums/system01.dbf
2 Full 1813849 28-SEP-11 /oracle/app/dev/oradata/forums/sysaux01.dbf
3 Full 1813849 28-SEP-11 /oracle/app/dev/oradata/forums/undotbs01.dbf
4 Full 1813849 28-SEP-11 /oracle/app/dev/oradata/forums/users01.dbf
BS Key Type LV Size Device Type Elapsed Time Completion Time
97 Full 259.16M DISK 00:00:00 28-SEP-11
BP Key: 100 Status: AVAILABLE Compressed: YES Tag: TAG20110928T18352
7
Piece Name: /export/home/dev/restore_db/backupset/backupset2/o1_mf_nnndf
TAG20110928T183527787lv0nb_.bkp
List of Datafiles in backup set 97
File LV Type Ckp SCN Ckp Time Name
1 Full 1816853 28-SEP-11 /oracle/app/dev/oradata/forums/system01.dbf
2 Full 1816853 28-SEP-11 /oracle/app/dev/oradata/forums/sysaux01.dbf
3 Full 1816853 28-SEP-11 /oracle/app/dev/oradata/forums/undotbs01.dbf
4 Full 1816853 28-SEP-11 /oracle/app/dev/oradata/forums/users01.dbf
Output of list backup (done after restoring the control file)
RMAN> list backup;
BS Key Size Device Type Elapsed Time Completion Time
87 89.20M DISK 00:00:26 28-SEP-11
BP Key: 87 Status: AVAILABLE Compressed: YES Tag: TAG20110928T171526
Piece Name: /oracle/app/dev/flash_recovery_area/FORUMS/backupset/2011_09
_28/o1_mf_annnn_TAG20110928T171526_787g50bm_.bkp
List of Archived Logs in backup set 87
Thrd Seq Low SCN Low Time Next SCN Next Time
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1 35 1306439 20-SEP-11 1307647 20-SEP-11
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1 38 1311393 20-SEP-11 1311511 20-SEP-11
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1 46 1353114 21-SEP-11 1353254 21-SEP-11
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1 48 1353865 21-SEP-11 1353988 21-SEP-11
1 49 1353988 21-SEP-11 1375403 21-SEP-11
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1 69 1492761 23-SEP-11 1492891 23-SEP-11
1 70 1492891 23-SEP-11 1493678 23-SEP-11
1 71 1493678 23-SEP-11 1493704 23-SEP-11
1 72 1493704 23-SEP-11 1494741 23-SEP-11
1 73 1494741 23-SEP-11 1494790 23-SEP-11
1 74 1494790 23-SEP-11 1510154 23-SEP-11
1 75 1510154 23-SEP-11 1514286 23-SEP-11
1 76 1514286 23-SEP-11 1531967 24-SEP-11
1 77 1531967 24-SEP-11 1543266 24-SEP-11
1 78 1543266 24-SEP-11 1558427 24-SEP-11
1 79 1558427 24-SEP-11 1566924 24-SEP-11
1 80 1566924 24-SEP-11 1578292 24-SEP-11
1 81 1578292 24-SEP-11 1596894 25-SEP-11
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88 84.03M DISK 00:00:30 28-SEP-11
BP Key: 88 Status: AVAILABLE Compressed: YES Tag: TAG20110928T171526
Piece Name: /oracle/app/dev/flash_recovery_area/FORUMS/backupset/2011_09
_28/o1_mf_annnn_TAG20110928T171526_787g63s9_.bkp
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Thrd Seq Low SCN Low Time Next SCN Next Time
1 82 1596894 25-SEP-11 1609028 25-SEP-11
1 83 1609028 25-SEP-11 1622303 25-SEP-11
1 84 1622303 25-SEP-11 1626430 25-SEP-11
1 85 1626430 25-SEP-11 1634486 25-SEP-11
1 86 1634486 25-SEP-11 1648398 25-SEP-11
1 87 1648398 25-SEP-11 1669259 26-SEP-11
1 88 1669259 26-SEP-11 1686820 26-SEP-11
1 89 1686820 26-SEP-11 1686959 26-SEP-11
1 90 1686959 26-SEP-11 1689168 26-SEP-11
1 91 1689168 26-SEP-11 1704759 26-SEP-11
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1 93 1719597 27-SEP-11 1740407 27-SEP-11
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1 95 1750125 27-SEP-11 1765592 27-SEP-11
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1 98 1802311 28-SEP-11 1811009 28-SEP-11
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BS Key Type LV Size Device Type Elapsed Time Completion Time
89 Full 261.87M DISK 00:01:37 28-SEP-11
BP Key: 89 Status: AVAILABLE Compressed: YES Tag: TAG20110928T171638
Piece Name: /oracle/app/dev/flash_recovery_area/FORUMS/backupset/2011_09
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1 Full 1813849 28-SEP-11 /oracle/app/dev/oradata/forums/system01.dbf
2 Full 1813849 28-SEP-11 /oracle/app/dev/oradata/forums/sysaux01.dbf
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Edited by: user11976229 on Oct 8, 2010 11:12 AM

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OK, while that is good for what most people want to do it isn't good enough for what I want to do. It doesn't cover the two requirements that I need:
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The article you referred to requires that I either:
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So, I now want someone else to go to the effort of doing this and I'll pay something to buy their utility if it works well. I imagine there are probably other customers out there for this type of utility.
Ideally, Apple should provide a "Backup" and "Restore" menu item that would handle this kind of thing for us and prompt us for destination path mappings when the "Restore" feature is used.
So... does anyone else know of a utility to do this or if Apple is going to provide this in the not-too-distant future?
Thanks,
Kevin.

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