Error in recovery after BACKUP DATABASE PLUS ARCHIVELOG

Question

Hi,
With Oracle 9.2.0.6 on Unix Aix 5, I made:
rman ...
RUN
ALLOCATE CHANNEL disk1 DEVICE TYPE DISK FORMAT '/base/tempora/%U';
BACKUP DATABASE PLUS ARCHIVELOG;
Copy files from /base/tempora/% to another server in a directory with the same name.
Recreate the pfile and directory structure, and then
rman...
RUN
ALLOCATE CHANNEL disk1 DEVICE TYPE DISK FORMAT '/base/tempora/%U';
restore controlfile to '/base/rcterefo/oracle/o1_mf_19xw2mvb_.ctl';
restore controlfile from '/base/rcterefo/oracle/o1_mf_19xw2mvb_.ctl';
sql 'alter database mount';
restore database;
recover database;
sql 'alter database open resetlogs';
release channel disk1;
But rman fails at -> recover database; by asking an archive log 6 months old (and not in the backupset):
ORA-00279: change 1224563589 generated at 02/09/2006 16:29:46 needed for thread
1
ORA-00289: suggestion : /base/.../arch/arch0000001819.arc
ORA-00280: change 1224563589 for thread 1 is in sequence #1819
Specify log: {<RET>=suggested | filename | AUTO | CANCEL}
ORA-00308: cannot open archived log '/base/.../arch/arch0000001819.arc'
ORA-27037: unable to obtain file status
IBM AIX RISC System/6000 Error: 2: No such file or directory
Additional information: 3
Original base seems to works fine (can be stoped and restarted).
I thought that this BACKUP DATABASE PLUS ARCHIVELOG would contain in itself all the data needed to restart the database. Database has been stopped and restarted last week with no problem and I regularly do full backup with RMAN and TSM (we are testing now backups without TSM for a spacial case).
Has someone an idea of what's wrong?
Thanks

Answer 1

Hi,
Thanks for taking care of my problem.
When I try to do a set until sequence..., the RESTORE CONTROLFILE fails, telling it has nothing to restore. I think this is the same kind of problem I encounter with the full restore.
Aniway, the restore being good, i try to finish the recover and it fails, asking for a very old archive. Is it possible a transaction to be active after so much time?
In fact, I just decovered a file is in RECOVER status. I did an :
alter database datafile '...' offline drop;
since that, the recover is ok, from oracle (not rman):
recover database using backup controlfile until cancel;
Thanks again to everyone.
Regards.