Setting database in ARCHIVELOG and duplicating with RMAN

Hi. I've tried to duplicate a Oracle 11g database that wasn't in ARCHIVELOG mode without success.
Here are the steps I followed:
- Put original database in archivelog (SID: originaldb, startup mount, alter database archivelog, alter database open).
- Configure tnsnames and create remote instance (SID: newdb)
- Start 'newdb' (startup nomount)
- Connect to 'original' using RMAN (rman target sys@originaldb)
- Connect to the remote database 'newdb' (connect auxiliary sys@newdb)
- Duplicate database (duplicate target database to newdb from active database nofilenamecheck)
Then I get the following error: "RMAN-20208: UNTIL CHANGE is before RESETLOGS change"
How should I proceed? Do I have to create a backup before trying to duplicate database?
Thanks.

Hi,
Thanks a lot.
I don't think that archivelogs were relocated, except I changed the location yesterday.
As I wrote at the start that because of INIT.ORA file being in use instead of SPFILE. I set DB_RECOVERY_FILE_DEST, DB_RECOVERY_DEST_SIZE after changing the DB mode to ARCHIVELOG, but DB was restarted by somebody else, and as the parameter changing was NOT PERMANENT, it rollback.
LOG_ARCHIVE_DEST was set to d:\oradata\db with archivelog mode but db_recovery_file_dest and size was set to 0. Now here, I have no idea that whether archivelogs were not being backed up or deleted physically, but I guess that as log_archive_dest parameter is deprecated and mode is set to archivelog with no real ARCHIVELOG DESTINATION. Please correct me if I am wrong or totally wrong :-)
I performed DELETED EXPIRED ARCHIVELOG ALL, and it deleted 49 EXPIRED objects.
Now CROSSCHECK ARCHIVELOG ALL and LIST ARCHIVELOG ALL shows nothing.
LIST BACKUP OF ARCHIVELOG ALL has of course those 49 archivelog gap.
Could you please tell the impacts of those 49 missing archivelogs. Retention policy is set to 14 days. I mean the risk is for 14 days right? As anyhow, the older backups are being DELETED according to retention policy of RMAN.

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and remote_login_passwordfile is set to SHARED or EXCLUSIVE,
and that the SYS password is same in the password files.
returning error ORA-16191
FAL[client, ARC2]: Error 16191 connecting to orcl11020 for fetching gap sequence
Errors in file /<>dir>/diag/rdbms/stdby_11/stdby_11/trace/stdby_11_arc2_24321.trc:
ORA-16191: Primary log shipping client not logged on standby
Errors in file /<dir>/diag/rdbms/stdby_11/stdby_11/trace/stdby_11_arc2_24321.trc:
ORA-16191: Primary log shipping client not logged on standby
So on both primary and standby I confirmed
SQL> show parameter remote_login_passwordfile
NAME TYPE VALUE
remote_login_passwordfile string EXCLUSIVE
To make double sure that password files are same, I shutdown both databases, delete password files and recreated with same credentials.
Password files are called - orapworcl11020 and orapwstdby_11
Can someone guide me where thisngs are going wrong here please.

Not sure if I understood it clearly.
SELECT * FROM V$ARCHIVE_GAP;
returns no rows so there is no gap.
But could you please explain me the result of the previous query. To catch up again, on standby when I check
SELECT SEQUENCE#,APPLIED FROM V$ARCHIVED_LOG
SEQUENCE# APPLIED
75 NO
74 NO
76 NO
77 NO
I understand that though archive files have been copied across but they are not applied yet.
On primary when I give your query -
SELECT name as STANDBY,SEQUENCE#,applied, completion_time
2 FROM v$archived_log
3 where dest_id=2
4 and sequence# BETWEEN 74 and 80;
I get -
STANDBY SEQUENCE# APPLIED COMPLETIO
stdby_11 74 YES 28-JUN-11
stdby_11 75 YES 28-JUN-11
stdby_11 76 YES 29-JUN-11
stdby_11 77 YES 29-JUN-11
stdby_11 78 YES 29-JUN-11
stdby_11 79 YES 29-JUN-11
stdby_11 80 YES 29-JUN-11
stdby_11 75 NO 07-JUL-11
stdby_11 74 NO 07-JUL-11
stdby_11 76 NO 07-JUL-11
stdby_11 77 NO 07-JUL-11
stdby_11 78 NO 07-JUL-11
I have intentionally given
sequence# BETWEEN 74 and 80
because I know in the current incarnaion of the database, max sequence is 78.
So my understanding is, the rows between 28-29 June are from previous incarnation, correct me if I am wrong
Archive files of the current incarnation, since I successfully created standby database are shipped but yet to be applied - am I right?
Then my final question is, when will these archives be applied to standby database?
I am sorry to ask too many questions but I am just trying to understand how it all works.
Thanks for your help again

RMAN in 10g database deletes archivelog files before standby receives them

Hi all,
We currently have problem with our Oracle 10gR1 database on Windows 2000 server in that the RMAN backups on the primary database delete archivelogs before the standby database can receive current and new archivelogs from primary database. What happens is that RMAN backs up the archivelogs and deletes them from disk before the archivelogs are sent to the standby. The standby then looks for these archivelogs on the primary but is unable to locate them. Whenever this happens, the production database (primary) hangs and we have to restart the instance on the primary. We have our Data Guard setup in maximum performance mode so this should not happen.
As a short term fix, we have changed the backups to have RMAN backup and delete the archive logs 15 minutes older than current time so that the standby can receive the logs and not have problems. Besides this fix is there a long term solution to the problem or is it a bug in Oracle 10g? The issue came up after we upgraded from 9i to 10g and never saw it before in 9i with RMAN and Data Guard physical standby databases.
Thanks
Ben Prusinski, Oracle DBA

thanks for answer...
did you managed to make it 'work'?
according to doc. if set on standby it should:
<>
Then, these files are eligible for deletion:
Archived redo log files in the flash recovery area that
were applied on the standby database.
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and this is to my understanding irespective to retention policy...unfortunately report obsolete does not report applied archived logs as eligable for deletion.
How this works in your case?
regards.
goran

Direct-Path with (No)Archivelog and recovery

Hi,
In a datawarehouse environment, our database is in NOARCHIVELOG. When we do a Insert /*+ APPEND */ on a table withLOGGING attribute, a miniminal redo log is generated.
We want to switch the database in ARCHIVELOG mode, and change the attribute of the table to NOLOGGING .
My question is, does instance recovery will work ?
I made a matrix of the effect of a crash while a direct-path Insert operation :
Database mode                   Table mode               Instance recovery                      Media recovery
NOARCHIVELOG                     LOGGING                        OK                                     NOT OK
ARCHIVELOG                       LOGGING                        OK                                     OK
ARCHIVELOG                       NOLOGGING                      OK                                     NOT OK
Do you agree with this matrix ?
Regards

Yes instance recovery will work regardless of direct-path and nologgging usage.
Here is an example with Oracle XE on Windows (database runs in ARCHIVELOG mode and FORCE_LOGGING is not set):
c:\tmp>rman target /
Recovery Manager: Release 11.2.0.2.0 - Production on Jeu. Janv. 12 20:05:32 2012
Copyright (c) 1982, 2009, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved.
connected to target database: XE (DBID=2642463371)
RMAN> report unrecoverable;
using target database control file instead of recovery catalog
Report of files that need backup due to unrecoverable operations
File Type of Backup Required Name
RMAN> exit
Recovery Manager complete.
c:\tmp>sqlplus xxx/xxx @nolog.sql
SQL*Plus: Release 11.2.0.2.0 Production on Jeu. Janv. 12 20:05:48 2012
Copyright (c) 1982, 2010, Oracle. All rights reserved.
Connected to:
Oracle Database 11g Express Edition Release 11.2.0.2.0 - Production
SQL> select log_mode, force_logging from v$database;
LOG_MODE     FOR
ARCHIVELOG   NO
SQL> drop table tnl purge;
Table dropped.
SQL> create table tnl(x int) nologging tablespace users;
Table created.
SQL> insert /*+ APPEND */ into tnl select object_id from all_objects;
17971 rows created.
SQL> commit;
Commit complete.
SQL> connect / as sysdba
Connected.
SQL> startup force
ORACLE instance started.
Total System Global Area 1071333376 bytes
Fixed Size                  1388352 bytes
Variable Size             658505920 bytes
Database Buffers          406847488 bytes
Redo Buffers                4591616 bytes
Database mounted.
Database opened.
SQL> exit
Disconnected from Oracle Database 11g Express Edition Release 11.2.0.2.0 - Production
c:\tmp>rman target /
Recovery Manager: Release 11.2.0.2.0 - Production on Jeu. Janv. 12 20:07:34 2012
Copyright (c) 1982, 2009, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved.
connected to target database: XE (DBID=2642463371)
RMAN> report unrecoverable;
using target database control file instead of recovery catalog
Report of files that need backup due to unrecoverable operations
File Type of Backup Required Name
4    full or incremental     C:\ORACLEXE\APP\ORACLE\ORADATA\XE\USERS.DBF
RMAN> exit
Recovery Manager complete.
c:\tmp>Edited by: P. Forstmann on 12 janv. 2012 20:08

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