Restoration of ASM/RAC database to another clustered set of servers for DataGuard implementation

Hi all,
I've been working with single instance Oracle DBs for several years and we're now looking into RAC. I'm trying to gather as much info as possible in areas I think may be challenging if/when we implement RAC.
Can someone please help me with some info with regards to the scenarion below:
Assuming I already have a 2 node RAC database running and I want to set-up a failover RAC database, would the following steps be correct(assuming 11g):
Configure hardware, networking and O/S for 2 node RAC cluster (I know there's a lot in this single line, but let's just assume that's all done)
Configure disks for ASM
Clusterware installation
Oracle ASM software installation
Oracle11g software installation with RAC option
Database creation
***I'm not sure of the steps after database creation:
Export primary database up to a specific SCN (data pump gives the ability to specify scn)
Import into failover database
Switch on dataguard and sync failover starting from scn specified at export.
Please, help correct these steps and any useful link where this process is treated thoroughly would be highly appreciated.

This is a very high level overview of the steps, but here are some additions/amendments I can make:
Clusterware installation
Oracle ASM software installation
-- The above 2 steps are done at the same time. In 11g, the Oracle 11g Grid Infrastructure includes both the Clusterware and ASM installation and configuration.
Oracle11g software installation with RAC option
Database creation
***I'm not sure of the steps after database creation:
Export primary database up to a specific SCN (data pump gives the ability to specify scn)
Import into failover database
Switch on dataguard and sync failover starting from scn specified at export.
Will you be using Data Guard for a physical standby? If so, using RMAN would be the correct method in creating the standby database. The general steps would be:
- Oracle 11g software installation
- Backup Primary Database
- Configure Data Guard Parameters on Primary
- Duplicate Primary to Standby RAC using RMAN (can be done manually or through the RMAN DUPLICATE command)
- Enable log transport from primary, enable managed recovery on standby, and verify log transport and apply is working as intended.
Again this is a very general overview on the entire process, there are other factors that you'll have to take into consideration when planning such a project:
- Which protection mode will you be using? Maximum Performance, Availability, or Protection? The business' recovery goals and SLAs will be able to determine which mode you will choose.
- Will the standby be used for reporting purposes?
- Recommended to have your standby site have the same hardware configuration as the primary.
- Do you have an EM site already set-up? Data Guard Broker should be considered in the configuration of the Data Guard environment.
This is just a few things quickly off the top of my head. What OS do you have/plan on using? I don't have the link handy on me at the moment, but the official Oracle documentation should provide detailed guidance.
EDIT:
At a bare minimum, read the 2 Day RAC Guide. There is more detailed information in the RAC Admin and Deployment Guide, as well as the Data Guard Concepts and Admin Guide. Also here's a step-by-step guide provided by Oracle. You can also find several blogs that provide a more concise step-by-step guide, such as here, here, and here. RACSIG also has a number of very useful whitepapers, but something seems to be wrong with their search function and I can't link anything at the moment. However, I would highly recommend reading through the official documentation as this has more comprehensive information, especially if you are deploying on a production system.
Regards,
Oscar

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Copyright (c) 1982, 2005, Oracle. All rights reserved.
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Copyright (c) 1982, 2005, Oracle. All rights reserved.
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Copyright (c) 1982, 2005, Oracle. All rights reserved.
Windows NT Version V6.1
CPU : 8 - type 586, 4 Physical Cores
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Restore RAC database from non-RAC source - EBS R12.1.1

We have restored (PIT) a RAC database from a non-RAC (but ASM) source and I was wondering if that was a reasonable thing to do.
The reason I ask is that I seem to remember that in the upgrade to R12.1.1 the upgrade driver had a different list of jobs to do when the target was RAC vs when it was non-RAC... so is it possible the EBS R12.1.1 code is different for RAC (meaning we dont have the right code base in the DB since we restored a non-RAC source to a RAC destination)?
Disclaimer - I am NOT a DBA .. just trying to identify some potential problems we are troubleshooting.
Thanks in advance!
EBS R12.1.1
OEL 5
11gR2

We have a RMAN back up of the non-RAC database that was restored and PIT recovered on the RAC database.Is it a full database backup?
The "code" base I am referring to is all the db stored objects for R12 EBS .. database compiled code.Restoring the RMAN backup on the target node is not enough. Have you run AutoConfig or postclone? Does your instance know that this is a a single instance and not a RAC one?
I am nervous that there may be alternate versions of the code to run in RAC vs non-RAC .. for instance I know that some of the ASCP jobs use DBMS PIPES and that can be tricky with RAC and Concurrent Manager.. And when we did the upgrade to R12, pointing it @ RAC generated more and different jobs than when it was not pointed @ RAC .. so SOMETHING was different according to the APPS ADPATCH/ADADMIN utilities.Please explain in details what is the purpose of doing this restore and what exactly you are trying to achieve. What cloning procedure you follow to refresh the target instance?
Thanks,
Hussein

Steps to restore a RAC database

Hi All,,
Can someone provide the steps to restore a 4 node RAC database to another 4 node RAC?
Database version:11.2.0.2
OS: AIX 6.1

user13364377 wrote:
Hi All,,
Can someone provide the steps to restore a 4 node RAC database to another 4 node RAC?
Database version:11.2.0.2
OS: AIX 6.1
consider to actually Read The Fine Manual yourself
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Restore RAC to Non-Rac database

I am new to RAC and I was wondering if anyone has documentation or they have restored themselves a RAC database to a Non-RAC database. Could someone please help me.

Hi
Here are the steps that may help you:
Archive your redologs, take the rman backup and then run the rman duplicate and clone upto the SCN you want.
Hope this Helps
Regards

Problem in recovering a database on another machine

Dear All,
I need your help in restoring and recovering a database on another machine. I don't have access to old machine to get logfile or archivelogs. I have taken full backup using RMAN. I have restored the database using rman sucessfully and trying to recover the database. RMAN have't restored the logfile. Database version is 8.1.7.4, OS is Solaris 8. In recovery, its showing the problem in rbs file. I'm showing all command and error. Just give me any idea that how to recover it sucessfully.
SVRMGRL>recover database using backup controlfile until cancel;
ORA-0279: Change 1935345519 generated at 08/19/2005 16:45:50 needed for thread 1
ORA-0289: suggestion: /u07/oraexp/PROD/arch/arch_1_29958.arc
ORA-0280: Change 1935345519 for thread 1 is in sequence #29958
specify log : {RET}...
cancel
ORA-01547: warning: Recover succeeded but open resetlogs would get error below
ORA-01194: file 2 needs more recovery to be consistent
ORA-01110: data file 2: '/u06/oracle/oradata/PROD/rbs01-PROD.dbf'
This RBS file size is 7GB. Is it the reason of problem. Even I tried until time, but its also has same error.
SVRMGRL>recover database using backup controlfile until time '2005-08-16:20:10:00';
ORA-0279: Change 1935345519 generated at 08/19/2005 16:45:50 needed for thread 1
ORA-0289: suggestion: /u07/oraexp/PROD/arch/arch_1_29958.arc
ORA-0280: Change 1935345519 for thread 1 is in sequence #29958
specify log : {RET}...
cancel
ORA-01547: warning: Recover succeeded but open resetlogs would get error below
ORA-01194: file 2 needs more recovery to be consistent
ORA-01110: data file 2: '/u06/oracle/oradata/PROD/rbs01-PROD.dbf'
Why its asking for archive file which generated on 19th, when I'm trying to recover until 16th only.
Regards
Rakesh

Hi.
What is the size of the redo logs in the database. With a small amount of transactions, there might be redo in this particular archived file from two days back. The timestamp of the archivelogfiles does not indicate that all redo in the file is from this day. It might have changes several days back if no logswitch occured inbetween.
So, if I were you, I would provide all archivelogs required to get the datafiles consistent.
As a matter of fact, if archived redo is in the following folder :
/u07/oraexp/PROD/arch/
I would use recover database until time and press return for all archived logs svrmgrl comes up with.
I assume that the database was closed normally prior to taking the offline backup.
Good luck.
Rgds
Kjell Ove

Question about DBCA generate script o create RAC database 2 node cluster

Question about creating two node RAC database 11g after installing and configuration 11g clusterware. I've used DBCA to generate script to create a rac database. I've set
environment variable ORACLE_SID=RAC and the creating script creates instance of RAC1 and RAC2. My understanding is that each node will represent a node, however there should only be one database with a name of 'RAC'. Please advise

You are getting your terminology mixed up.
You only have one database. Take a look, there are one set of datafiles on shared storage.
You have 2 instances which are accessing one database.
Database name is RAC. Instance names are RAC1, RAC2, etc, etc.
Also, if you look at the listener configuration and if your tnsnames is setup properly then connecting to RAC will connect you to either one of the instances wheras connecting to RAC1 will connect you to that instance.

DBA panel not working correctly for RAC databases

I hope this is the correct forum for this stuff... I learned that there is a DBA panel in SQL Developer - which is a great idea. But then, trying it on a RAC database, the output is quite confusing. For example, the init parameters are desplayed twice, or better: once for every instance. But a display column to identify the instance is missing. I assume that the query goes to gv$parameter but doesn't make use of the INST_ID column. Or am I lacking some configuration trick...?

This probably has nothing to do with your problem but something is screwed up in the way CSCC handles Configurator panels.
Converted a panel made for CS6 using Configurator4. Got it loaded into CC. It was not quite right so I made some minor changes. The changes never showed up in CC. Deleted the original folder under Panels, changed the name of the panel and reinstalled. Whoa! The original deleted panel was the only one that showed up under Extensions not the new one. This in spite of the fact that that folder no longer existied.
I have tried all sorts of maneauvers but the fact is that the original panel is the only one that PS recognizes even though it does not exist on the drive. It is locked into PS and nothing I have done will change it.
Larry

Move Files from one document set to another document set using workflow

Hi All,
Env : SP 2013 Server - SPD 2013.
I'm trying to make a SPD Workflow that must copy a files from one Document Set to another Document set in the same library other document library
Does Someone already get success for Copy files from one Document Set to another Document set?
Thanks for your help.

Hi,
According to your post, my understanding is that you wanted to move Files from one document set to another document set using workflow.
I recommend to use the custom workflow activity Copy List Item Extended Activityto
copy files to another document set.
You can do this with codeless SharePoint Designer workflows as long as you can install the
Codeplex Custom SharePoint Designer Workflow Activities.
These activities are also built-in to SPD2013. However, you can only use the custom activities in the SharePoint 2010 Platform.
To install the custom activities, please follow the steps as below:
Download the solution file form
Useful Sharepoint Designer Custom Workflow Activities
Copy the wps file to the Disk C.
Open the SharePoint 2013 Management Shell.
Run the command: add spsolution c:\ dp.sharepoint.workflow.wsp
Open the Center Administration, click System Setting->Manage Farm Solution-> dp.sharepoint.workflow.wsp->Deploy to one or more Web Application.
Open the SharePoint designer, create SharePoint 2010 Platform workflow, add action from Custom Actions.
Best Regards,
Linda Li
Linda Li
TechNet Community Support

DR type restore of 10gR1 RAC with ASM database to another cluster

Hi,
We have a requirement to restore the image copy of our production database to another location. The production database is a 10-node 10gR1 RAC deployment with ASM. The image copy is in the FRA.
We want to restore this image copy onto a 2-node 10gR1 RAC cluster, which is also running a development environment. We have so far used the 'backup copy copy of database' command to pipe the image copy from the FRA to an NFS mounted filesystem. We plan to restore (and convert the names) the files from here. I have a list of steps we need to undertake - like adding the production database metadata on the development cluster into CRS, restore the spfile and controlfile, restore and convert the datafiles from the production ASM diskgroup to the development ASM diskgroup.
has anyone out there done this? Are there any nasty 'gotchas' or pitfalls?
Please, tell me your pain so I can spare it myself :o)
regards
Dilbert

user562223 wrote:
We are planning to take cold backup through RMAN. But now the issue is that if something going wrong with the storage then both the diskgroup on the same storage will not be mounted.
What should be the backup & recovery strategy for this scenario? How to bring the server back online?The strategy depends entirely on the risk analysis and assessment. Do you need to be able to recover the database to the moment just before it crashed? Do you need point-in-time recovery? What are the availability requirements? Etc.
Databases can be quite diverse in nature. It can be fairly static with very few changes, to very dynamic to totally dynamic. In some cases, the database only needs to be restored as a "container" (structures with no data) as that is all the processes need and as these will supply the data. In other cases, the entire database with all committed transactions to the second before the crash is needed. In a few cases, you may want to use Data Guard and standby/clone databases instead.
There is no single set of rman instructions that you can copy-and-paste to implement any of these diverse backup and recovery strategies. You need to determine and define your backup, restore and availability requirement first - before looking at which rman commands to use and in what sequence, where and when.

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