RMAN Oracle 9i - restore

Question

Gurus
I want to restore a complete RMAN backup on my stage server (same layout, same binaries) from the NFS location.
The method I follow is:
- launch full backup from source on NFS drive accessible to both servers
- startup nomount at target
- restore controlfile from 'location'
- restore database
However the issue is that I did not mention include current controlfile in the backup I took (it's 9i, 9208) and when I list backup it shows all old backups (which go to tape normally) and not the one that I took on NFS. I haven't setup tape and recovery catalog on stage as I donot want to restore from tape but from NFS drive only...
The error it shows is:
RMAN-00571: ===========================================================
RMAN-00569: =============== ERROR MESSAGE STACK FOLLOWS ===============
RMAN-00571: ===========================================================
RMAN-03002: failure of restore command at 03/23/2011 10:00:51
RMAN-06026: some targets not found - aborting restore
RMAN-06100: no channel to restore a backup or copy of datafile 50
RMAN-06100: no channel to restore a backup or copy of datafile 49
RMAN-06100: no channel to restore a backup or copy of datafile 48
RMAN-06100: no channel to restore a backup or copy of datafile 47
RMAN-06100: no channel to restore a backup or copy of datafile 46
etc
Can you tell me how do I catalog this backup in the controlfile it is restoring..?.. I see that 9i has some restriction in diong that :(
Also, can I copy the current controlfile (from source) which has info abt this backup and restore to a point in time?
ThanksMuch
L0 DBA

Answer 1

I was able to identify the backup using a current controlfile but the pience name is registered as:
BS Key Type LV Size Device Type Elapsed Time Completion Time
49460 Full 2G DISK 00:22:09 15-MAR-11
BP Key: 49460 Status: AVAILABLE Tag: TAG20110315T165404
Piece Name: /apps/ddbackup/oraexport/DBNAME/FULL_SAVEGRP_DBNAME_ntm7a0dg/
List of Datafiles in backup set 49460
File LV Type Ckp SCN Ckp Time Name
44 Full 1723976356787 15-MAR-11 /oradata/DBNAME/data001/oralink/rkpidx03_03
47 Full 1723976356787 15-MAR-11 /oradata/DBNAME/data001/oralink/rkpdat01_06
The backup was taken using:
backup full filesperset 20
format '/apps/ddbackup/oraexport/DBNAME/FULL_SAVEGRP_%d_%u/'
(database);
BUt the restore says:
RMAN-00571: ===========================================================
RMAN-00569: =============== ERROR MESSAGE STACK FOLLOWS ===============
RMAN-00571: ===========================================================
RMAN-03002: failure of restore command at 03/23/2011 11:38:27
ORA-19505: failed to identify file "/apps/ddbackup/oraexport/DBNAME/FULL_SAVEGRP_DBNAME_ntm7a0dg/"
ORA-27037: unable to obtain file status
SVR4 Error: 20: Not a directory
Additional information: 3
Although al files are present at this location:
(oracle:DBNAME)/apps/ddbackup/LCM/scripts/DBNAME: ls -l /apps/ddbackup/oraexport/DBNAME
total 707098624
-rw-r----- 1 oracle dba 4571136 Mar 23 11:01 ctrlDBNAME.ctl
-rw-r----- 1 oracle dba 46823784448 Mar 15 21:11 FULL_SAVEGRP_DBNAME_nmm7a0de
-rw-r----- 1 oracle dba 66170978304 Mar 15 23:00 FULL_SAVEGRP_DBNAME_nnm7a0de
-rw-r----- 1 oracle dba 70473613312 Mar 15 23:23 FULL_SAVEGRP_DBNAME_nom7a0df
-rw-r----- 1 oracle dba 31187255296 Mar 15 19:51 FULL_SAVEGRP_DBNAME_npm7a0df
-rw-r----- 1 oracle dba 49790435328 Mar 15 21:32 FULL_SAVEGRP_DBNAME_nqm7a0df
-rw-r----- 1 oracle dba 53254422528 Mar 15 21:50 FULL_SAVEGRP_DBNAME_nrm7a0df
-rw-r----- 1 oracle dba 41653403648 Mar 15 20:47 FULL_SAVEGRP_DBNAME_nsm7a0df
-rw-r----- 1 oracle dba 2676031488 Mar 15 17:16 FULL_SAVEGRP_DBNAME_ntm7a0dg
Any clues?