Need help with Backup Recovery using Rman - Point in Time.

Hi all,
I am trying to recover my database to a certain point in time. Here are the details below.
Oracle database version is. 11G R1. on 2 Node RAC. OS is AIX.
Database name is Sales.
Due to a mistake by the Application team, the database is written over by bad data. Now I have to restore the database in to a point in time, where the database was good.
For this, i took a whole (full) RMAN backup, everything, all the archivelog files and Controlfiles as well.
After doing this, i dropped the entire database. So now everything is clean.
Now i have to restore and recover the database to this point in time.. 03/16/2011 12:45:00
Please guide.
The backups are located at.. /backup/sales/rman/
I am trying various things, but each time i get the msg..
ORA-01507: database not mounted
I understand.. the reason for this message is the controlfile does not exist.. as the database is in mount mode. But as i said.. i have dropped the database in order to proceed with entire restoration.
But i have taken a whole backup.. which also includes the controlfiles + archivefiles.
Please guide.. with proper steps and commands.

Hi,
Priror to start with restore and recovery - Try to restore the control file from backups "/backup/sales/rman/"
Then further you can mount the db and further carry on with recovery (catalog the backups prior to recovery)
- Pavan Kumar N

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I am planning to do a database migration from 8.0.6 to 10.2.0.4. I am using export/import. Please answer some of my queries:
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3) Is export/import the only method of migration/upgradation.
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I'll answer the specifics that I know about your questions, but please look at the post from Srini for additional info:
1) Do i need to do full export using SYS/SYSTEM user.
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2) Will there be any data corruption while export.The data in the objects that you are exporting is being read, nothing is written to user data. I'm not sure what this is available in 8.0.6,
but if you need a consistent export, look to see if consistent=y is available in 8.0.6. All this means is that the dump file created will have
consistent data in it.
3) Is export/import the only method of migration/upgradation.If you are changing hardware, the only supported way from 8.0 to 10.2.0.4, that I know of, is using exp/imp.
Hope this helps.
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rdiff-backup cough my eye, because as I see it it's rather simple and supports incremental backups which I consider a nice feature to have.
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If that is the case, what would be the most sensible way to compress the backup?
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I am experiencing 2 primary problems:
1) When attempting a recent backup with HotSync on my desktop PC (Treo 700p, HotSync Manager v. 6.01, XP): I hadn't backed up for a few weeks, and this time it crashed sometime during the backup of the Calendar (and this behavior is repeated). So I then unchecked the backup of Calendar, but then it just hung on Contacts for about 15 minutes, so I realized it wasn't doing anything anymore (I have lots of contacts, but not not 15 minutes worth). At this point I gave up, but I obviously need to figure out how to make HotSync work again. Any ideas?
2) (not sure if this is the forum to address this): When using Backup Buddy v. 2.04 a couple of days ago, every time I tried to backup, it would get maybe 1/5th into the backup and crash and restart. I figured out in short order that Address.DB is what was causing the crash. [I tried to e-mail the file so I could examine it and save it, but just attaching it in SnapperMail made the device crash]. So I took the chance of deleting the Address.DB (as it seemed small and didn't appear to contain any backup information), and it looks like all of my information was retained. My question here is: two times since the initial problem, something has recreated Address.DB, which again causes the 700p to crash, so I have had to delete it again. So when is this file being (re)created, and what is the purpose of it?
An additional (minor) difficulty that I've had occur on a couple of occasions: After a recovery (where my BackupBuddy information was more current than my HotSync data), I restored, and all the calendar entries were double - 2 identical entries adjacent to one another. Has anyone seen this?
Thanks in advance -
B
Post relates to: Treo 700p (Verizon)

Sounds like the device has become corrupted.
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i need some help please
i lost my bb 9900 last week and now am using a bb 8520 that has os 5.0 i believe
supposedly bb protect will not work with this phone so I cannot access my weekly backups from protect website
is there anyway i can transfer those online backups to my home mac computer so i can load to this phone without installing protect app? (it wont let me install on this phone)
if not - can someone from RIM send to me? i can see the backup files on protect website - latest from around when i lost my phone.
the reason for all this is i have many BBM contacts - and previously, i was able to restore using email when i got my 9900 and it loaded successfully - now, when i try retore by email - it states no contacts linked to my email address!
i dont have these bbm contacts on my mac since the last backup on the computer was last year - since then, i have only backed up using protect
i am having no luck at all!!!!

sunnyb82 wrote:
but i dont understand your last part:
(this doesnt show up in my options tab for contacts)
As for the continued inability to restore your contacts from BB Protect, also check this:
On the BlackBerry smartphone, navigate to Contacts > Options > Desktop Contact List. Set Wireless Synchronization to No.
Check that same setting for any Contact Lists you have displayed in the Contacts Options area.
not sure what this all means > Further, if you are going to use Google as your Contact list source, then restoring from any source is moot...if Google has the correct data, then allowing it to continue OTA synchronization would be your best approach.
My point was that the Option setting indicated may or may not exist...if it exists, then it needs to be set to NO. If it does not exist, then it is not relevant (which I think is what applies in your case). In any event, since you were able to restore, all is well as far as contacts are concerned.
sunnyb82 wrote:
so i have my old BBM pin - how can i retrieve the BBM contacts from there? its linked to my gmail address because i restored by email to my 9900 last time
You have your old BBM PIN? Hmmm...I'm not quite sure what you mean by that. Knowing the PIN is just that...knowing the unique PIN that was assigned to your old BB at time of manufacture. But, for obtaining your old BBM contacts, you'd need the actual device or a successful backup that was previously created (either the Desktop Software or via the in-BBM backup method). Knowing only the PIN itself now, I don't see how that applies. Perhaps I do not understand?
Now, if what you did was do the remote in-BBM backup using an email address, then that's a different thing indeed. But I don't exactly know how that works...it may well be that it only works for the exact same BB and not to another BB. I've always used the local file BBM contact backup as I then know for certain that I have control over the backup file.
sunnyb82 wrote:
can someone from rim help me retrieve this data since its all stored on the servers...
For free, only if you can convince your mobile service provider to escalate your case into RIM.
For a fee, you can ask via Incident Support, but it does cost to just ask the initial question, and I've no idea if there even is a way to accomplish what you are wanting to have them do (I rather doubt it, but I still do not quite understand what your request is):
http://us.blackberry.com/support/programs/technical/incident.html
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