Trying to restore a database with RMAN in new server

Question

Hello,
Database: Oracle 10gR2
O/S: Windows Server 2003
My RMAN backuppieces are stored in a network drive:
\\old_location\FULL
and
\\old_location\INC
I'm trying to restore a whole database with RMAN in another server from my FULL backup.
For that, I copy all backuppieces files
from: \\old_location\FULL
to new server: D:\new_location\
Also I created the relevant folder hierarchy under <ORACLE_BASE> directory, as follows:
a. Create BDUMP, CDUMP, and UDUMP directories under '<ORACLE_ BASE>\admin' directory
b. Create <DATABASE_NAME> directory under '<ORACLE_BASE>\oradata' directory
c. pfile.ora and controlfile (CTL_MTDPROD_2308_20120401_1.CTL) are backup from original database and they are in D:\new_location\
d. I copied pfile.ora and controlfile to folder: C:\oracle\product\10.2.0\db_1\database\
I started creating an instance in new server from scratch:
C:\>oradim -new -sid MTDPROD -intpwd mtdprod
C:\> SET ORACLE_SID=MTDPROD
C:\> rman
RMAN> connect target sys
RMAN> SET DBID=21692876873
RMAN> STARTUP force nomount PFILE=C:\oracle\product\10.2.0\db_1\database\init_mtdprod.ora
RMAN> restore controlfile from 'C:\oracle\product\10.2.0\db_1\database\CTL_MTDPROD_2308_20120401_1.CTL';
RMAN> alter database mount;
#Since I want to read my backuppieces from D:\new_location and not from \\old_location\FULL then I catalog and restore like:
RMAN> catalog start with 'D:\new_location\';
RMAN> restore database;
Starting recover at 25/04/12
allocated channel: ORA_DISK_1
channel ORA_DISK_1: sid=541 devtype=DISK
channel ORA_DISK_1: starting incremental datafile backupset restore
channel ORA_DISK_1: specifying datafile copies to recover
recovering datafile copy fno=00003 name=D:\BD_MTDPROD\CONTROLFILES\SYSAUX01.DBF
recovering datafile copy fno=00004 name=D:\BD_MTDPROD\CONTROLFILES\USERS01.DBF
recovering datafile copy fno=00007 name=D:\BD_MTDPROD\DATAFILES_DATA\MSE.ORA
recovering datafile copy fno=00010 name=D:\BD_MTDPROD\DATAFILES_DATA\EXPEDIENTES2.ORA
channel ORA_DISK_1: reading from backup piece \\old_location\FULL\FULL_MTDPROD_20120401_2304_1.BAK
channel ORA_DISK_1: restored backup piece 1
channel ORA_DISK_1: failover to piece handle=D:\new_location\FULL\FULL_MTDPROD_20120401_2304_1.BAK tag=TAG20120401T190004
.....(continues)
Questions:
1. RMAN still reads from old_location. The only way to avoid that would be deleting all files from \\old_location\FULL ?
2. The message "failover to piece handle=D:\new_location\...." indicates that that file is not usefull? I just copy them from old_location to new_location... how can they get useless?
I suspect there is something in controlfile that redirects to \\old_location\FULL\ and doesn't let to read from D:\new_location\
Please, advice.

Answer 1

user521219 wrote:
Questions:
1. RMAN still reads from old_location. The only way to avoid that would be deleting all files from \\old_location\FULL ?
2. The message "failover to piece handle=D:\new_location\...." indicates that that file is not usefull? I just copy them from old_location to new_location... how can they get useless?
I suspect there is something in controlfile that redirects to \\old_location\FULL\ and doesn't let to read from D:\new_location\Is this a cold backup? Did you change the location of control file in your PFILE or is it still pointing to old location?
You may want to check the output of RESTORE DATABASE PREVIEW command, which will just report which backup files it uses without actually restoring thhe DB.