List,
We are in the process of testing every recovery scenario we can think of using rman. We don't use a catalog and controlfile autobackup is on which implies the spfile is automatically backed up.
So one of the scenarios was to delete the spfile and pfile.
To recover I thought we would be able to....
(database already shutdown)
rman
rman>set DBID=1370501721 ---i tried switch this with the command immediate following
rman>connect target /
rman>startup force nomount; ---from what I read in the documentation this should force oracle to use a 'dummy' spfile.
rman>restore spfile from autobackup;
i realize there are several other ways to handle this situation but why can't i start the database in this way?
the error i get is:
RMAN> startup force nomount;
RMAN-00571: ===========================================================
RMAN-00569: =============== ERROR MESSAGE STACK FOLLOWS ===============
RMAN-00571: ===========================================================
RMAN-03002: failure of startup command at 01/24/2003 13:37:39
RMAN-04014: startup failed: ORA-27037: unable to obtain file status
HP-UX Error: 2: No such file or directory
Additional information: 3
what gives?
