How to Create new database from cold backup files.

Dear Experts,
I have an oracle 10g databae on windows 2003 server.
The database is in Archive log mode and backup strategy is Taking cold backup ever night.
Backup steps:
shut down database.
copy data files, control files, redo logs, archive logs and parameter files to safe location.
Startup.
I have taken a backup at Tuesdaay 1AM and I have archive logs also.
On Wednesday, I want to Create a new database on another server with the available cold backup files and archive logs. I want to recover the database upto 4PM Wednesday. How can I do this.
I am not using control file auto backup or control file backup to trace.
Please help me how can I do this. I am new to oracle database Administration.
--Thanks                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                       

The steps :
shut down database.
copy data files, control files, redo logs, archive logs and parameter files to safe location -- you mean the alternate location for the new databaseare correct (except that I would say "alternate location for the new database").
If you do not have controlfile backups, you cannot either OPEN the database or RECOVER the database until and unless you CREATE the Controlfiles. You have to generate a CREATE CONTROLFILE script using a BACKUP CONTROLFILE TO TRACE from the Production serer and create the controlfile on the new server.
BEFORE the Startup, I would use
RECOVER DATABASE USING BACKUP CONTROLFILE UNTIL CANCEL;The "using backup controlfile" tells Oracle to continue attempting Recovery -- ie doing a RollForward -- till the last archivelog made available to it.
For the Recover command, you then keep applying the ArchiveLogs from the Tuesday 1am ColdBackup upto Wednesday 4pm.
Once you have applied the last ArchiveLog, you do an
ALTER DATABASE OPEN RESETLOGS;Here are my notes of doing a RollForward "Recovery" from a Cold Backup :
http://hemantoracledba.blogspot.com/2007/05/rollforward-from-cold-backup.html
If you are attempting all these steps on a different server from your current Production database, you should be safe.
Once you OPEN the database, you can use CREATE CONTROLFILE or the NID utility to rename the database.
If you are attempting to create the new database on the same server there are many other precautions you have to take and unless you have experience with cloning databases, I would advice you against doing so (only the RMAN DUPLICATE DATABASE command has a safer method of cloning a database).
Hemant K Chitale
http://hemantoracledba.blogspot.com

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    Piece Name: /u03/oracle_backups/ORADB1/offline/ORADB1_level1_set_4949_piece_1_date_20100224_711836434
    List of Datafiles in backup set 4894
    File LV Type Ckp SCN Ckp Time Name
    1 1 Incr 5086113791743 24-FEB-10 /u01/app/oracle/oradata/ORADB1/system01.dbf
    RMAN> list backup of datafile 44; (the first one in the list above)
    List of Backup Sets
    ===================
    BS Key Type LV Size Device Type Elapsed Time Completion Time
    4872 Incr 0 7.15G DISK 00:35:17 21-FEB-10
    BP Key: 4872 Status: AVAILABLE Compressed: YES Tag: TAG20100221T200045
    Piece Name: /u03/oracle_backups/ORADB1/offline/ORADB1_level0_set_4927_piece_1_date_20100221_711576046
    List of Datafiles in backup set 4872
    File LV Type Ckp SCN Ckp Time Name
    44 0 Incr 5086110241948 21-FEB-10 /u04/app/oracle/oradata/ORADB1/NETINSIGHT_INDEXES_03.dbf
    BS Key Type LV Size Device Type Elapsed Time Completion Time
    4893 Incr 1 4.06G DISK 00:26:52 24-FEB-10
    BP Key: 4893 Status: AVAILABLE Compressed: YES Tag: TAG20100224T200037
    Piece Name: /u03/oracle_backups/ORADB1/offline/ORADB1_level1_set_4947_piece_1_date_20100224_711835238
    List of Datafiles in backup set 4893
    File LV Type Ckp SCN Ckp Time Name
    44 1 Incr 5086113791743 24-FEB-10 /u04/app/oracle/oradata/ORADB1/NETINSIGHT_INDEXES_03.dbf
    As you can see, the level 0 and level 1 backups are showing as available. To double check, I perform a crosscheck backup of database;
    RMAN> crosscheck backup of database;
    allocated channel: ORA_DISK_1
    channel ORA_DISK_1: sid=74 devtype=DISK
    crosschecked backup piece: found to be 'AVAILABLE'
    backup piece handle=/u03/oracle_backups/ORADB1/offline/ORADB1_level0_set_4927_piece_1_date_20100221_711576046 recid=4872 stamp=711576046
    crosschecked backup piece: found to be 'AVAILABLE'
    backup piece handle=/u03/oracle_backups/ORADB1/offline/ORADB1_level0_set_4928_piece_1_date_20100221_711576046 recid=4873 stamp=711576046
    crosschecked backup piece: found to be 'AVAILABLE'
    backup piece handle=/u03/oracle_backups/ORADB1/offline/ORADB1_level0_set_4930_piece_1_date_20100221_711578189 recid=4874 stamp=711578189
    crosschecked backup piece: found to be 'AVAILABLE'
    backup piece handle=/u03/oracle_backups/ORADB1/offline/ORADB1_level0_set_4929_piece_1_date_20100221_711578185 recid=4875 stamp=711578186
    crosschecked backup piece: found to be 'AVAILABLE'
    backup piece handle=/u03/oracle_backups/ORADB1/offline/ORADB1_level0_set_4932_piece_1_date_20100221_711579570 recid=4876 stamp=711579570
    crosschecked backup piece: found to be 'AVAILABLE'
    backup piece handle=/u03/oracle_backups/ORADB1/offline/ORADB1_level0_set_4931_piece_1_date_20100221_711579392 recid=4877 stamp=711579393
    crosschecked backup piece: found to be 'AVAILABLE'
    backup piece handle=/u03/oracle_backups/ORADB1/offline/ORADB1_level0_set_4934_piece_1_date_20100221_711580369 recid=4878 stamp=711580370
    crosschecked backup piece: found to be 'AVAILABLE'
    backup piece handle=/u03/oracle_backups/ORADB1/offline/ORADB1_level0_set_4935_piece_1_date_20100221_711580535 recid=4879 stamp=711580535
    crosschecked backup piece: found to be 'AVAILABLE'
    backup piece handle=/u03/oracle_backups/ORADB1/offline/ORADB1_level0_set_4933_piece_1_date_20100221_711580122 recid=4880 stamp=711580123
    crosschecked backup piece: found to be 'AVAILABLE'
    backup piece handle=/u03/oracle_backups/ORADB1/offline/ORADB1_level1_set_4948_piece_1_date_20100224_711835237 recid=4892 stamp=711835238
    crosschecked backup piece: found to be 'AVAILABLE'
    backup piece handle=/u03/oracle_backups/ORADB1/offline/ORADB1_level1_set_4947_piece_1_date_20100224_711835238 recid=4893 stamp=711835238
    crosschecked backup piece: found to be 'AVAILABLE'
    backup piece handle=/u03/oracle_backups/ORADB1/offline/ORADB1_level1_set_4949_piece_1_date_20100224_711836434 recid=4894 stamp=711836436
    crosschecked backup piece: found to be 'AVAILABLE'
    backup piece handle=/u03/oracle_backups/ORADB1/offline/ORADB1_level1_set_4950_piece_1_date_20100224_711836866 recid=4895 stamp=711836866
    crosschecked backup piece: found to be 'AVAILABLE'
    backup piece handle=/u03/oracle_backups/ORADB1/offline/ORADB1_level1_set_4951_piece_1_date_20100224_711837267 recid=4896 stamp=711837268
    crosschecked backup piece: found to be 'AVAILABLE'
    backup piece handle=/u03/oracle_backups/ORADB1/offline/ORADB1_level1_set_4952_piece_1_date_20100224_711837971 recid=4897 stamp=711837972
    crosschecked backup piece: found to be 'AVAILABLE'
    backup piece handle=/u03/oracle_backups/ORADB1/offline/ORADB1_level1_set_4953_piece_1_date_20100224_711837989 recid=4898 stamp=711837989
    crosschecked backup piece: found to be 'AVAILABLE'
    backup piece handle=/u03/oracle_backups/ORADB1/offline/ORADB1_level1_set_4955_piece_1_date_20100224_711838522 recid=4899 stamp=711838522
    crosschecked backup piece: found to be 'AVAILABLE'
    backup piece handle=/u03/oracle_backups/ORADB1/offline/ORADB1_level1_set_4954_piece_1_date_20100224_711838520 recid=4900 stamp=711838521
    Crosschecked 18 objects
    RMAN>
    So I'm unclear as to why RMAN believes the backups of these files don't exist when I attempt to restore the database. Anyone have a clue?
    NOTE: I've also tried to restore spcifically with the tag= clause but I get the same results:
    RMAN> restore database from tag='TAG20100221T200045';
    Starting restore at 25-FEB-10
    using channel ORA_DISK_1
    RMAN-00571: ===========================================================
    RMAN-00569: =============== ERROR MESSAGE STACK FOLLOWS ===============
    RMAN-00571: ===========================================================
    RMAN-03002: failure of restore command at 02/25/2010 13:41:04
    RMAN-06026: some targets not found - aborting restore
    RMAN-06023: no backup or copy of datafile 44 found to restore
    RMAN-06023: no backup or copy of datafile 43 found to restore
    RMAN-06023: no backup or copy of datafile 42 found to restore
    RMAN-06023: no backup or copy of datafile 40 found to restore
    RMAN-06023: no backup or copy of datafile 39 found to restore
    RMAN-06023: no backup or copy of datafile 38 found to restore
    RMAN-06023: no backup or copy of datafile 37 found to restore
    RMAN-06023: no backup or copy of datafile 36 found to restore
    RMAN-06023: no backup or copy of datafile 35 found to restore
    RMAN-06023: no backup or copy of datafile 34 found to restore
    RMAN-06023: no backup or copy of datafile 33 found to restore
    RMAN-06023: no backup or copy of datafile 32 found to restore
    RMAN-06023: no backup or copy of datafile 31 found to restore
    RMAN-06023: no backup or copy of datafile 30 found to restore
    RMAN-06023: no backup or copy of datafile 29 found to restore
    RMAN-06023: no backup or copy of datafile 28 found to restore
    RMAN-06023: no backup or copy of datafile 27 found to restore
    RMAN-06023: no backup or copy of datafile 26 found to restore
    RMAN-06023: no backup or copy of datafile 25 found to restore
    RMAN-06023: no backup or copy of datafile 24 found to restore
    RMAN-06023: no backup or copy of datafile 23 found to restore
    RMAN-06023: no backup or copy of datafile 22 found to restore
    RMAN-06023: no backup or copy of datafile 21 found to restore
    RMAN-06023: no backup or copy of datafile 20 found to restore
    RMAN-06023: no backup or copy of datafile 19 found to restore
    RMAN-06023: no backup or copy of datafile 18 found to restore
    RMAN-06023: no backup or copy of datafile 17 found to restore
    RMAN-06023: no backup or copy of datafile 16 found to restore
    RMAN-06023: no backup or copy of datafile 15 found to restore
    RMAN-06023: no backup or copy of datafile 14 found to restore
    RMAN-06023: no backup or copy of datafile 13 found to restore
    RMAN-06023: no backup or copy of datafile 12 found to restore
    RMAN-06023: no backup or copy of datafile 11 found to restore
    RMAN-06023: no backup or copy of datafile 10 found to restore
    RMAN-06023: no backup or copy of datafile 9 found to restore
    RMAN-06023: no backup or copy of datafile 8 found to restore
    RMAN-06023: no backup or copy of datafile 7 found to restore
    RMAN-06023: no backup or copy of datafile 6 found to restore
    RMAN-06023: no backup or copy of datafile 5 found to restore
    RMAN-06023: no backup or copy of datafile 4 found to restore
    RMAN-06023: no backup or copy of datafile 3 found to restore
    RMAN-06023: no backup or copy of datafile 2 found to restore
    RMAN-06023: no backup or copy of datafile 1 found to restore

    Just as a follow on to my last post, after the RMAN-06023 messages, I list backups of the three datafiles and as you can see RMAN thinks that they are available. If I exit RMAN and list them at the OS level, they are where RMAN things they should be:
    RMAN> restore database;
    Starting restore at 25-FEB-10
    using channel ORA_DISK_1
    RMAN-00571: ===========================================================
    RMAN-00569: =============== ERROR MESSAGE STACK FOLLOWS ===============
    RMAN-00571: ===========================================================
    RMAN-03002: failure of restore command at 02/25/2010 16:17:39
    RMAN-06026: some targets not found - aborting restore
    RMAN-06023: no backup or copy of datafile 4 found to restore
    RMAN-06023: no backup or copy of datafile 3 found to restore
    RMAN-06023: no backup or copy of datafile 1 found to restore
    RMAN> list backup of datafile 4;
    List of Backup Sets
    ===================
    BS Key Type LV Size Device Type Elapsed Time Completion Time
    4880 Incr 0 1.36G DISK 00:08:57 21-FEB-10
    BP Key: 4880 Status: AVAILABLE Compressed: YES Tag: TAG20100221T200045
    Piece Name: /u03/oracle_backups/ORADB1/offline/ORADB1_level0_set_4933_piece_1_date_20100221_711580122
    List of Datafiles in backup set 4880
    File LV Type Ckp SCN Ckp Time Name
    4 0 Incr 5086110241948 21-FEB-10 /u02/app/oracle/oradata/ORADB1/users01.dbf
    BS Key Type LV Size Device Type Elapsed Time Completion Time
    4890 Incr 1 934.82M DISK 00:09:42 22-FEB-10
    BP Key: 4890 Status: AVAILABLE Compressed: YES Tag: TAG20100222T200047
    Piece Name: /u03/oracle_backups/ORADB1/offline/ORADB1_level1_set_4943_piece_1_date_20100222_711664989
    List of Datafiles in backup set 4890
    File LV Type Ckp SCN Ckp Time Name
    4 1 Incr 5086111401249 22-FEB-10 /u02/app/oracle/oradata/ORADB1/users01.dbf
    BS Key Type LV Size Device Type Elapsed Time Completion Time
    4898 Incr 1 947.57M DISK 00:08:49 24-FEB-10
    BP Key: 4898 Status: AVAILABLE Compressed: YES Tag: TAG20100224T200037
    Piece Name: /u03/oracle_backups/ORADB1/offline/ORADB1_level1_set_4953_piece_1_date_20100224_711837989
    List of Datafiles in backup set 4898
    File LV Type Ckp SCN Ckp Time Name
    4 1 Incr 5086113791743 24-FEB-10 /u02/app/oracle/oradata/ORADB1/users01.dbf
    RMAN>
    RMAN> list backup of datafile 3;
    List of Backup Sets
    ===================
    BS Key Type LV Size Device Type Elapsed Time Completion Time
    4874 Incr 0 2.65G DISK 00:19:50 21-FEB-10
    BP Key: 4874 Status: AVAILABLE Compressed: YES Tag: TAG20100221T200045
    Piece Name: /u03/oracle_backups/ORADB1/offline/ORADB1_level0_set_4930_piece_1_date_20100221_711578189
    List of Datafiles in backup set 4874
    File LV Type Ckp SCN Ckp Time Name
    3 0 Incr 5086110241948 21-FEB-10 /u02/app/oracle/oradata/ORADB1/sysaux01.dbf
    BS Key Type LV Size Device Type Elapsed Time Completion Time
    4885 Incr 1 1.95G DISK 00:15:54 22-FEB-10
    BP Key: 4885 Status: AVAILABLE Compressed: YES Tag: TAG20100222T200047
    Piece Name: /u03/oracle_backups/ORADB1/offline/ORADB1_level1_set_4940_piece_1_date_20100222_711663910
    List of Datafiles in backup set 4885
    File LV Type Ckp SCN Ckp Time Name
    3 1 Incr 5086111401249 22-FEB-10 /u02/app/oracle/oradata/ORADB1/sysaux01.dbf
    BS Key Type LV Size Device Type Elapsed Time Completion Time
    4895 Incr 1 1.97G DISK 00:18:13 24-FEB-10
    BP Key: 4895 Status: AVAILABLE Compressed: YES Tag: TAG20100224T200037
    Piece Name: /u03/oracle_backups/ORADB1/offline/ORADB1_level1_set_4950_piece_1_date_20100224_711836866
    List of Datafiles in backup set 4895
    File LV Type Ckp SCN Ckp Time Name
    3 1 Incr 5086113791743 24-FEB-10 /u02/app/oracle/oradata/ORADB1/sysaux01.dbf
    RMAN>
    RMAN>
    RMAN> list backup of datafile 1;
    List of Backup Sets
    ===================
    BS Key Type LV Size Device Type Elapsed Time Completion Time
    4875 Incr 0 4.37G DISK 00:22:53 21-FEB-10
    BP Key: 4875 Status: AVAILABLE Compressed: YES Tag: TAG20100221T200045
    Piece Name: /u03/oracle_backups/ORADB1/offline/ORADB1_level0_set_4929_piece_1_date_20100221_711578185
    List of Datafiles in backup set 4875
    File LV Type Ckp SCN Ckp Time Name
    1 0 Incr 5086110241948 21-FEB-10 /u01/app/oracle/oradata/ORADB1/system01.dbf
    BS Key Type LV Size Device Type Elapsed Time Completion Time
    4884 Incr 1 1.93G DISK 00:12:34 22-FEB-10
    BP Key: 4884 Status: AVAILABLE Compressed: YES Tag: TAG20100222T200047
    Piece Name: /u03/oracle_backups/ORADB1/offline/ORADB1_level1_set_4939_piece_1_date_20100222_711663601
    List of Datafiles in backup set 4884
    File LV Type Ckp SCN Ckp Time Name
    1 1 Incr 5086111401249 22-FEB-10 /u01/app/oracle/oradata/ORADB1/system01.dbf
    BS Key Type LV Size Device Type Elapsed Time Completion Time
    4894 Incr 1 1.92G DISK 00:13:46 24-FEB-10
    BP Key: 4894 Status: AVAILABLE Compressed: YES Tag: TAG20100224T200037
    Piece Name: /u03/oracle_backups/ORADB1/offline/ORADB1_level1_set_4949_piece_1_date_20100224_711836434
    List of Datafiles in backup set 4894
    File LV Type Ckp SCN Ckp Time Name
    1 1 Incr 5086113791743 24-FEB-10 /u01/app/oracle/oradata/ORADB1/system01.dbf
    RMAN> exit
    $ ls -ltr /u03/oracle_backups/ORADB1/offline
    total 59743688
    -rwx------ 1 oracle oinstall 7677960192 2010-02-25 11:13 ORADB1_level0_set_4927_piece_1_date_20100221_711576046
    -rwx------ 1 oracle oinstall 7980834816 2010-02-25 11:24 ORADB1_level0_set_4928_piece_1_date_20100221_711576046
    -rwx------ 1 oracle oinstall 4691853312 2010-02-25 11:29 ORADB1_level0_set_4929_piece_1_date_20100221_711578185
    -rwx------ 1 oracle oinstall 2847391744 2010-02-25 11:34 ORADB1_level0_set_4930_piece_1_date_20100221_711578189
    -rwx------ 1 oracle oinstall 3530924032 2010-02-25 11:39 ORADB1_level0_set_4931_piece_1_date_20100221_711579392
    -rwx------ 1 oracle oinstall 1566449664 2010-02-25 11:41 ORADB1_level0_set_4932_piece_1_date_20100221_711579570
    -rwx------ 1 oracle oinstall 1459781632 2010-02-25 11:43 ORADB1_level0_set_4933_piece_1_date_20100221_711580122
    -rwx------ 1 oracle oinstall 561774592 2010-02-25 11:44 ORADB1_level0_set_4934_piece_1_date_20100221_711580369
    -rwx------ 1 oracle oinstall 58753024 2010-02-25 11:44 ORADB1_level0_set_4935_piece_1_date_20100221_711580535
    -rwx------ 1 oracle oinstall 4364124160 2010-02-25 11:56 ORADB1_level1_set_4947_piece_1_date_20100224_711835238
    -rwx------ 1 oracle oinstall 2971877376 2010-02-25 12:01 ORADB1_level1_set_4948_piece_1_date_20100224_711835237
    -rwx------ 1 oracle oinstall 2066546688 2010-02-25 12:03 ORADB1_level1_set_4949_piece_1_date_20100224_711836434
    -rwx------ 1 oracle oinstall 2119360512 2010-02-25 12:06 ORADB1_level1_set_4950_piece_1_date_20100224_711836866
    -rwx------ 1 oracle oinstall 1003356160 2010-02-25 12:06 ORADB1_level1_set_4951_piece_1_date_20100224_711837267
    -rwx------ 1 oracle oinstall 1637105664 2010-02-25 12:08 ORADB1_level1_set_4952_piece_1_date_20100224_711837971
    -rwx------ 1 oracle oinstall 993607680 2010-02-25 12:08 ORADB1_level1_set_4953_piece_1_date_20100224_711837989
    -rwx------ 1 oracle oinstall 1130496 2010-02-25 12:09 ORADB1_level1_set_4955_piece_1_date_20100224_711838522
    -rwx------ 1 oracle oinstall 283344896 2010-02-25 12:09 ORADB1_level1_set_4954_piece_1_date_20100224_711838520
    -rwx------ 1 oracle oinstall 4344365056 2010-02-25 16:01 ORADB1_level1_set_4937_piece_1_date_20100222_711662448
    -rwx------ 1 oracle oinstall 2959015936 2010-02-25 16:05 ORADB1_level1_set_4938_piece_1_date_20100222_711662448
    -rwx------ 1 oracle oinstall 2067202048 2010-02-25 16:07 ORADB1_level1_set_4939_piece_1_date_20100222_711663601
    -rwx------ 1 oracle oinstall 2089304064 2010-02-25 16:08 ORADB1_level1_set_4940_piece_1_date_20100222_711663910
    -rwx------ 1 oracle oinstall 955711488 2010-02-25 16:09 ORADB1_level1_set_4941_piece_1_date_20100222_711664370
    -rwx------ 1 oracle oinstall 1623564288 2010-02-25 16:11 ORADB1_level1_set_4942_piece_1_date_20100222_711664872
    -rwx------ 1 oracle oinstall 980238336 2010-02-25 16:12 ORADB1_level1_set_4943_piece_1_date_20100222_711664989
    -rwx------ 1 oracle oinstall 280952832 2010-02-25 16:12 ORADB1_level1_set_4944_piece_1_date_20100222_711665385
    -rwx------ 1 oracle oinstall 1130496 2010-02-25 16:12 ORADB1_level1_set_4945_piece_1_date_20100222_711665521

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