Rman restoration automation

Question

Hi All,
I have to restore rman backup's to test server every day so i am planning to automate the restoration.
1)every day the rman backup is going to copy from prod to test in the below location
[oracle@orcl01 backup]$ pwd
/u02/oradata/trax/backup
My backup files look like this
[oracle@orcl01 backup]$ ls -lrta
-rw-r----- 1 oracle oinstall 156640256 Apr 21 05:20 rman4_u7ma9qcm_1_1.bk
-rw-r----- 1 oracle oinstall 332751872 Apr 21 05:20 rman3_u6ma9qcm_1_1.bk
-rw-r----- 1 oracle oinstall 299827200 Apr 21 05:20 rman2_u5ma9qcm_1_1.bk
-rw-r----- 1 oracle oinstall 354471424 Apr 21 05:20 rman1_u4ma9qcm_1_1.bk
-rw-r----- 1 oracle oinstall 2920996864 Apr 21 05:20 rman1_u8ma9qef_1_1.bk
-rw-r----- 1 oracle oinstall 7782178816 Apr 21 05:21 rman4_ubma9qef_1_1.bk
-rw-r----- 1 oracle oinstall 8354365440 Apr 21 05:22 rman2_u9ma9qef_1_1.bk
-rw-r----- 1 oracle oinstall 8364433408 Apr 21 05:23 rman3_uama9qef_1_1.bk
-rw-r----- 1 oracle oinstall 8562688 Apr 21 05:23 rman1_ucma9s5v_1_1.bk
-rw-r----- 1 oracle oinstall 8257536 Apr 21 05:23 rmanctrl_B_c-1215068670-20110421-00
-rw-r----- 1 oracle oinstall 8224768 Apr 21 06:05 rmanctrl_B_c-1215068670-20110421-01
Here 2 control files is there when i tried to restore it i am getting the error. I didnt give the complete control file name instead i have given *. If I give complete name then I am able to restore it but when i give * rman not able to identify the file.
[oracle@orcl01 scripts]$ more control.rcv
startup nomount;
restore controlfile from '/u02/oradata/trax/backup/rmanctrl_B_*';
alter database mount;
exit;
How can i select only one control file to the script???? if i give controlfile name correctly then i am able to automate the entire restoration.
Can any one pls tell me how to procede further
KK

Answer 1

Hi
Thank you for your reply. Even it is one control file I am getting error. Please find the below output
[oracle@orcl01 scripts]$ more control.log
Recovery Manager: Release 11.2.0.1.0 - Production on Thu Apr 21 07:12:33
2011
Copyright (c) 1982, 2009, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reser
ved.
connected to target database (not started)
RMAN> startup nomount;
restore controlfile from '/u02/oradata/trax/backup/rmanctrl_B_*';
alter database mount;
exit;
Oracle instance started
Total System Global Area 1670221824 bytes
Fixed Size 2213936 bytes
Variable Size 1426065360 bytes
Database Buffers 234881024 bytes
Redo Buffers 7061504 bytes
Starting restore at 21-APR-11
using target database control file instead of recovery catalog
allocated channel: ORA_DISK_1
channel ORA_DISK_1: SID=253 device type=DISK
RMAN-00571: ===========================================================
RMAN-00569: =============== ERROR MESSAGE STACK FOLLOWS ===============
RMAN-00571: ===========================================================
RMAN-03002: failure of restore command at 04/21/2011 07:12:35
RMAN-06172: no AUTOBACKUP found or specified handle is not a valid copy o
r piece
Recovery Manager complete.
Thanks
Ravi
Edited by: user12061936 on Apr 21, 2011 3:13 PM