Restore CTL file from AUTOBACKUP earlier than my backupset?

Question

Hi ALl,
I'm new to RMAN and inheriting a backup procedure and have a question about an output when trying to do a restore.
Oracle 11G 11.2.0.3 on WIndows 2008 R2
This is the RMAN backup commands:
CROSSCHECK ARCHIVELOG ALL;
CROSSCHECK BACKUPSET;
CROSSCHECK BACKUP;
CROSSCHECK COPY;
DELETE NOPROMPT EXPIRED ARCHIVELOG ALL;
DELETE NOPROMPT EXPIRED BACKUPSET;
DELETE NOPROMPT OBSOLETE;
BACKUP CURRENT CONTROLFILE;
BACKUP AS COMPRESSED BACKUPSET DATABASE PLUS ARCHIVELOG DELETE INPUT;
EXIT;THen i copy the ORAFRA to another server and run the following commands (after shutdown)
rman TARGET / NOCATALOG
SET DBID=XXXXX;
STARTUP NOMOUNT;
RESTORE CONTROLFILE FROM AUTOBACKUP;
ALTER DATABASE MOUNT;The quirky thing is, the output of the last one says the control file was restored, say on May 26th.
In my backupsets, i have daily backups all the way until today, June 3rd.
In the ORAFRA, i dont have AUTOBACKUPS past May 26th though my backup job has been running fine since then.
Then i run this:
RUN
RESTORE DATABASE;
RECOVER DATABASE NOREDO;
}Thinking that i want to restore to the last full daily backup which is last night at 7pm (June 2nd).
With the control file being restored to May 26th, will this be possible or am i missing something?
Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

Hi mseberg,
Yes i wouldhave thought that the AUTOBACKUP folder would have folders for each of the past days, but it only has it until May 26 - so it's missing almost a week of folders.
The restore/recovery finished but when i tried to open the database, it threw an error:
Finished restore at 03-JUN-13
Starting recover at 03-JUN-13
using channel ORA_DISK_1
Finished recover at 03-JUN-13
RMAN> ALTER DATABASE OPEN RESETLOGS;
RMAN-00571: ===========================================================
RMAN-00569: =============== ERROR MESSAGE STACK FOLLOWS ===============
RMAN-00571: ===========================================================
RMAN-03002: failure of alter db command at 06/03/2013 13:56:35
ORA-01194: file 1 needs more recovery to be consistent
ORA-01110: data file 1: 'D:\ORACLE\DATABASE\ORADATA\MMSPRD7\DBF\SYSTEM01.DBF'I then did a RESTORE DATABASE and it gave this error:
archived log file name=F:\ORAFRA\MMSPRD7\ARCHIVELOG\2013_05_27\O1_MF_1_2280_8T5P
M463_.ARC thread=1 sequence=2280
archived log file name=F:\ORAFRA\MMSPRD7\ARCHIVELOG\2013_05_27\O1_MF_1_2281_8T5P
MQ37_.ARC thread=1 sequence=2281
archived log file name=F:\ORAFRA\MMSPRD7\ARCHIVELOG\2013_05_27\O1_MF_1_2282_8T6C
R67B_.ARC thread=1 sequence=2282
archived log file name=F:\ORAFRA\MMSPRD7\ARCHIVELOG\2013_05_27\O1_MF_1_2283_8T6X
JGJM_.ARC thread=1 sequence=2283
unable to find archived log
archived log thread=1 sequence=2284
RMAN-00571: ===========================================================
RMAN-00569: =============== ERROR MESSAGE STACK FOLLOWS ===============
RMAN-00571: ===========================================================
RMAN-03002: failure of recover command at 06/03/2013 13:59:06
RMAN-06054: media recovery requesting unknown archived log for thread 1 with seq
uence 2284 and starting SCN of 28712555Without knowing what to do next, i tried to open the database using ALTER DATABASE OPEN RESETLOGS...and it opened!
But now i dont know what state my db is in and when did i restore it to??