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Hi
Is there any way to restore a 8i instance, including controlfiles, from a rman backup file if there are no catalog or controlfiles available?
With 9i you can run "restore controlfile from 'PATH/backupfile';" but that option doesn't seem to come with 8i.
Unfortunately the Rman catalog was lost along with the whole database and the only thing they have left is a backupfile on disk.
Cheers
Tom

In this case you need to know what you have you in our backup set.
http://dba.shilpatech.com/rman.html#id3573178
Look under section 1.2
You would basically restore the controlfile from the backup set.

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