Rman restore to windows server with different drive layout

Question

I'm restoring to a server with a different drive layout. I'm using the set newname for the datafiles and it's working fine. However. My redo logs show that they are on the f: drive and the f: drive doesn't exist on the new server (recovery). so when I'm all done I get an error saying that it cant find the redo02.log. Any ideas?
TIA
Dave

Answer 1

no problem, thanks for the reply.
Here's what I tried in the init.ora
LOG_FILE_NAME_CONVERT=('F:\ORADATA\ORCQA08','D:\ORADATA\ORCQA08')
I didn't even create the spfile I figured I could do that later.
The datafiles alll go to the correct drive, here's my restore statement:
run
allocate channel disk_channel1 type disk;
allocate channel disk_channel2 type disk;
SET NEWNAME for datafile 1 to 'd:\ORADATA\ORCQA08\SYSTEM01.DBF';
SET NEWNAME for datafile 2 to 'd:\ORADATA\ORCQA08\SYSAUX01.DBF';
SET NEWNAME for datafile 3 to 'e:\ORADATA\ORCQA08\UNDOTBS01.DBF';
SET NEWNAME for datafile 4 to 'd:\ORADATA\ORCQA08\USERS01.DBF';
SET NEWNAME for datafile 5 to 'e:\ORADATA\ORCQA08\PLATDATA.DBF';
SET NEWNAME for datafile 6 to 'd:\ORADATA\ORCQA08\PLATHISTDATA.DBF';
SET NEWNAME for datafile 7 to 'd:\ORADATA\ORCQA08\TS_MV.DBF';
SET NEWNAME for datafile 8 to 'e:\ORADATA\ORCQA08\PLATNDX.DBF';
SET NEWNAME for datafile 9 to 'd:\ORADATA\ORCQA08\POADATA.DBF';
SET NEWNAME for datafile 10 to 'd:\ORADATA\ORCQA08\POABDATA.DBF';
SET NEWNAME for datafile 11 to 'd:\ORADATA\ORCQA08\POANDX.DBF';
SET NEWNAME for datafile 12 to 'd:\ORADATA\ORCQA08\TS_REPORT_DATA.DBF';
restore database;
release channel disk_channel1;
release channel disk_channel2;
i then do a switch database to copy and this registers the datafiles under the correct drive BUT when I try to open the database this is what i get:
ORA-00280: change 15613734 for thread 1 is in sequence #861
ORA-00278: log file
'D:\oracle\flash_recovery_area\ORCQA08\ARCHIVELOG\2012_08_03\ARC0000000860_07815
80447.0001' no longer needed for this recovery
Specify log: {<RET>=suggested | filename | AUTO | CANCEL}
cancel
Media recovery cancelled.
SQL> alter database open resetlogs;
alter database open resetlogs
ERROR at line 1:
ORA-00344: unable to re-create online log 'F:\ORADATA\ORCQA08\REDO01.LOG'
ORA-27040: file create error, unable to create file
OSD-04002: unable to open file
O/S-Error: (OS 3) The system cannot find the path specified.
You can see that it's still looking on the f: drive for the redo log. Is my syntax correct?? - - LOG_FILE_NAME_CONVERT=('F:\ORADATA\ORCQA08','D:\ORADATA\ORCQA08')
I can get rid of the other redo logs by dropping them and recreating under the proper drive but 01 is the active log.
any other ideas?
Dave