Wrongly created the rman catalog

Hi friends,
in my prod server i created catalog user and catalog tablespace and am not create catdb.
i connect to target database and I took backups.
is it valid backups?
if not what can I do?
regards

You may want to follow these instructions for details on the process:
Step 1. Creating a Recovery Catalog
Step 2. Managing Target Database Records in the Recovery Catalog
Again, you should NOT create the recovery catalog in your target (production) database.

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3. put a repository in another database and cross backup
It's to persits the data Base backup histories in another database, gives the facility to clone/ re- build the DB to different node - in terms of crashes.
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I.
The following two databases are the target databases which needs to be backed up.
1. a 11.1.0.7.0 database
2. a 10.2.0.1.0 databaseII.
Catalog schema in a 10.2.0.4.0 database called catdb.
III.
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CATALOG schema creation
=======================
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        Edited by: Citizen_2 on 14-Sep-2009 11:46

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Connected.
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VERSION
11.01.00.06
SQL>
rman
Recovery Manager: Release 9.2.0.7.0 - 64bit Production
Copyright (c) 1995, 2002, Oracle Corporation. All rights reserved.
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Hope it is helpul.
Regards
Edited by: vasu77 on Sep 15, 2009 10:01 AM
Edited by: vasu77 on Sep 15, 2009 2:11 PM

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how can we an end user create a product catalog?
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first of all we need to look at what is catalog management before proceding with product and product catalog.
You use this business scenario to create a centralized product catalog that contains product descriptions, multimedia objects, pricing, and associated literature. The catalog enables quick and easy customer access to timely and personalized product information, structured in such a way that most meets your customers needs.
Product catalogs are implemented in sales processes and are of particular importance in CRM Web Channel for presenting your products in the Web shop.
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Prerequisites
You have created products in your product master in SAP CRM under Accounts and Products
Process
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Manual Assignment
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The following is true for manually assigned products:
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      Manually assigned products can be included or removed from catalog views on an individual basis.
Automatic Assignment
You can assign products automatically to a catalog by transferring product hierarchies from your product master to the catalog areas. The categories, items, attributes, and documents contained in the product hierarchy are copied to the new catalog.
You use automatic product assignment mainly for functional catalogs, where products can be copied with very few changes, from the product categories of the product master. It enables a standardized characterization of your products in the catalog.
The following is true for products assigned to the catalog using product hierarchy transfer:
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      Items are always active and cannot be individually activated or deactivated.
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how to create a product catalog
just have a look at this link
http://help.sap.com/saphelp_crm60/helpdata/en/1c/12b2dc57d644d19ea3a5c4156f904f/frameset.htm
your query regarding the products you have uploaded from the R3,now as above i said how you maintain and create the product catalog ,you just assign the products uploaded from the R3 to the product cataloag created in CRM.
more detail info you can see in these links
http://help.sap.com/saphelp_crm60/helpdata/en/91/be9642e5ef0731e10000000a1550b0/frameset.htm
http://help.sap.com/saphelp_crm60/helpdata/en/46/27f09d25da5a68e10000000a1553f7/frameset.htm
http://help.sap.com/saphelp_crm60/helpdata/en/46/037716cfc604a9e10000000a114a6b/frameset.htm
if you read carefuly what i have said,it is pretty easy to implement ,you will see it yourself
guess it will help you
do revert back in case of any doubt
best regards
ashish

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Hi All,
Please provide the solution as we are in real trouble.
We have to delete master catalog and upload it again. Deletion is done because the mapping and all are being corrupted. SAP has suggested to delete the catalog and again upload it and do all the mapping again related to supplier and procurement catalog
http://help.sap.com/saphelp_srm50/helpdata/en/7f/9b62405c910272e10000000a155106/frameset.htm.
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Catalog Creation
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How to restore the control fie? without having RMAN catalog.

Hi ,
can anyone help me out here.???
How can i restore the control file.if i dont have the RMAN catalog.
Please provide me steps that'll be helpful. I am frsher in oracle DBA
Please mail me: [email protected]
Regards
Vikas Singh

Hi Vikas,
You can restore the control if you have the full backup of your database in some location.
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Edited by: user10863631 on Mar 10, 2011 7:56 AM

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We have 7 major oracle instances on 2 servers and we have created a RMAN catalog on another server
Our principal databases are Standard Oracle 10g (10.2.0.2.0) under linux , and the catalog is Enterprise Oracle 10g (10.2.0.2.0) in Windows all the databases are registered in catalog when I query RC_DATABSE view it shows all
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select dbid,name from rman_user.rc_database;
DBID        NAME
<h4>----------------  ----------------</h4>
1498968931       SCSDB
4293064263        SSTDB
861276728         SUBDB
2404423160        SAM
3976246282        SFIDB
1760672514    SCEDB
817528985        S900NS1
select t.name,t1.db_id,bs_key
from rman_user.RC_BACKUP_SET t1,rman_user.rc_database t
where t1.db_id=t.dbid;
NAME        DB_ID        BS_KEY
<h4>----------------  ----------------  ----------------</h4>
SUBDB        861276728        14366
SUBDB        861276728        14365
SUBDB        861276728        14364
SAM        2404423160        14491
SAM        2404423160        14490
SAM        2404423160       14489
select name, max(START_TIME)
from rman_user.rc_database d,
rman_user.rc_backup_set s
where db_id(+) = dbid
group by name
order by 2 desc;
NAME        MAX(START_TIME)
<h4>----------------  ----------------</h4>
SCEDB
S900NS1
SCSDB
SFIDB
SSTDB
SAM        6/14/2008 1:06:15 AM
SUBDB        6/13/2008 9:02:43 PM
This date (6/14/2008) is old because I haven't used the catalog for a long time, due to the problem I've mentioned above.
Edited by: TakhteJamshid on Jan 10, 2010 2:49 AM
Edited by: TakhteJamshid on Jan 10, 2010 3:00 AM

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The only reason I can think that you would need 2 different catalogs is because you have an 8.1.X target and a 8.0.5 target? If so, make sure to have the RMAN catalog be the latest 8.1.x release.
In general, the rules of RMAN compatibility are as follows:
o The RMAN catalog schema version should be greater than or equal to the catalog database version. See "Note 1: 8.1 or Later Catalog Schemas in 8.0 Catalog Databases".
o The RMAN catalog is backwards compatible with target databases from earlier releases. See "Note 2: 8.1 or Later Catalog Schemas and 8.0 Target Databases".
o The versions of the RMAN executable and the target database should be the same.
Note 1: 8.1 or Later Catalog Schemas in 8.0 Catalog Databases
RMAN cannot create release 8.1 or later catalog schemas in 8.0 catalog databases.
Note 2: 8.1 or Later Catalog Schemas and 8.0 Target Databases
Restore operations for an 8.0.4 or 8.0.5 target with an 8.1 or later catalog schema do not work when both these conditions are met:
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You are connected to a recovery catalog
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Note 3: 8.1.6 Catalog Schema and Pre-8.1.6 RMAN Executable
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null

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