Catalog Backup Piece Manually

Question

We are currently running Oracle 10.2.0.4 and IBM TSM to do our backups, but we moved to a new machine and some of our older backups are sitting on tape in TSM and i need to manually catalog these pieces, I logged a SR with Oracle and they sent me the following response
+"There is an undocumented command that allows catalog backuppiece from tape,+
+catalog device type 'SBT_TAPE' backuppiece '<name>';+
+You need first configure an sbt_tape device and then you can execute the catalog device type sbt_tape+
+command.+
+As and example the following will catalog a backuppiece on netbackup:+
+CONFIGURE CHANNEL DEVICE TYPE 'SBT_TAPE'+
+PARMS 'ENV=(NB_ORA_CLASS=sv2n2admoraclelogbkup, SBT_LIBRARY=/usr/openv/netbackup/bin/libobk.sl64';+
+catalog device type 'SBT_TAPE' backuppiece 'orig-lij1qaa3_1_1';+
+Note: This command works from 10g. The reason why it is not documented for tape is if the backupset contains more than one piece, then it will take long time to catalog backup piece. As long as there is one backuppiece per backupset, then the undocumented way should work without any issues."+
This solution is for netbackup when i try the following in TSM
RMAN> CONFIGURE CHANNEL DEVICE TYPE 'sbt_tape' parms
'ENV=(TDPO_OPTFILE=/usr/tivoli/tsm/client/oracle/bin64/tdpo.opt)';
RMAN> CATALOG DEVICE TYPE 'SBT_TAPE' BACKUPPIECE 'tiaprd_monthly_rman_7pl75al9_3_1';
I get the following error
allocated channel: ORA_SBT_TAPE_1
channel ORA_SBT_TAPE_1: sid=1754 devtype=SBT_TAPE
channel ORA_SBT_TAPE_1: Data Protection for Oracle: version 5.3.3.0
allocated channel: ORA_SBT_TAPE_2
channel ORA_SBT_TAPE_2: sid=1699 devtype=SBT_TAPE
channel ORA_SBT_TAPE_2: Data Protection for Oracle: version 5.3.3.0
allocated channel: ORA_SBT_TAPE_3
channel ORA_SBT_TAPE_3: sid=1625 devtype=SBT_TAPE
channel ORA_SBT_TAPE_3: Data Protection for Oracle: version 5.3.3.0
allocated channel: ORA_SBT_TAPE_4
channel ORA_SBT_TAPE_4: sid=1987 devtype=SBT_TAPE
channel ORA_SBT_TAPE_4: Data Protection for Oracle: version 5.3.3.0
ORA-19870: error reading backup piece tiaprd_monthly_rman_7pl75al9_3_1
ORA-19507: failed to retrieve sequential file, handle="tiaprd_monthly_rman_7pl75al9_3_1", parms=""
ORA-27029: skgfrtrv: sbtrestore returned error
ORA-19511: Error received from media manager layer, error text:
ANS1302E (RC2) No objects on server match query
RMAN-00571: ===========================================================
RMAN-00569: =============== ERROR MESSAGE STACK FOLLOWS ===============
RMAN-00571: ===========================================================
RMAN-03002: failure of catalog command at 05/05/2010 11:37:18
RMAN-06209: List of failed objects
RMAN-06211: ==========================
RMAN-06212: Object Type Filename/Handle
RMAN-06213: --------------- ---------------------------------------------------
RMAN-06214: Backup Piece tiaprd_monthly_rman_7pl75al9_3_1
RMAN> exit
As you can see it fails but if i specify a wildcard "tiaprd_monthly_rman*" it works anybody please help
Regards
Grant

Answer 1

Hi Grant,
As you can see it fails but if i specify a wildcard "tiaprd_monthly_rman*" it works anybody please help.It isn´t an undocumented feature without a reason.
Why not just use the wild card option anyway saves you a lot of time keying in unique tag names?
Regards,
Tycho