How to restore archive logs with rman

Question

Hi,
here is the scenario:
we have lost everything because of disk failure.
we have a full cold backup and archivelog backups which were created after cold backup and were backed up with rman.
after restoring from cold backup, because archivelog backups do not exist in controlfile, how can we catalog archivelog backups and restore them?
could you give me the exact rman command for this?
Best Regards,
Kamil

Answer 1

cold backup means offline backup, you shut database normally and copy datafiles to another location.
i think operating system does not matter that much but it is RedHat Linux Enterprise Server.
backing up archivelogs whith rman script which is:
run {
allocate channel c1 type disk format '$BKUPLOC/arch_%d_%u_%s_%p.bkp';
change archivelog all validate;
sql 'ALTER SYSTEM ARCHIVE LOG CURRENT';
backup archivelog time between 'SYSDATE - (30*60/(60*60*24))' and 'sysdate';
release channel c1;
so here is the details.
1. because everything is lost, we restored all files(datafiles, controlfiles, redologs etc) from offline backup meaning copied all files from another location to corresponding location.
2. want to apply archive logs which were created after cold backup till disk failure and we have these archive logs with backups which were taken by rman.
So
first of all, we want to register these archive log rman backups(because these backup information does not exist in restored controlfile)
and then restore them and then apply them.
we need rman commands to register these backups and restore them.
Regards,
Kamil